Logic has admitted to “half-assing” the last songs he needed put out to get out of his deal with Def Jam Recordings.
On a skit from his new joint album with Juicy J, Live and in Color, Logic sits down with the Three 6 Mafia legend to have a reflective and honest discussion about being good friends, producing and putting their all into their music.
“I don’t half-ass anything,” claimed Logic towards the end of the “Discussion 4” skit. “The only time I ever half-assed some shit was when I was trying to get out of my Def Jam deal. I was like, take these songs and get the fuck out of here.”
Logic has been openly critical of Def Jam in the past. In 2022, he called out the record label because he thought they messed up his release plans.
“Def Jam, why you fucking up my releases, man?” he said in a video. “First of all, I love you Tunji. Tunji’s my guy, he ain’t got nothing to do with this. What the fuck is going on, man? I told Def Jam that I wanted to release my shit as a two-pack and I just found out that they’re releasing it as two singles at the same time. What kind of shit is that?”
That same year, he released his last album with Def Jam, Vinyl Days, which he created in 12 days. In an appearance on the Impaulsive podcast, Logic confirmed its speedy creation was because he wanted to leave the record label.
“I made that album in 12 days so I could get off Def Jam,” he said. “That’s my favorite part – I’m off Def Jam. I made that album so I could leave, and guess what? I left them with some of the dopest shit I could give them.
Elsewhere during the “Discussion 4” skit, Juicy J compares Logic to Michael Jackson because of his superstar qualities. “Michael Jackson was a superstar. Logic is a superstar. Juicy J is a superstar,” Juicy said.
Juicy J isn’t the only person who’s been shocked by Logic lately. In May, Logic sat down with influencer Bobbi Althoff who couldn’t believe how much the Maryland rapper spends on office supplies.
The two got together for an episode of The Really Good Podcast when Logic flexed his expensive notebook and Montblanc-branded gold pencil. “It’s a Montblanc. It write things down,” he said in a matter-of-fact tone when asked why it was so expensive.
Pens run out of ink — which, at that point, most people replace with another one. Althoff asked what Logic would do when that happened, and he blew her mind again with his expensive solution. “You just refill the ink and it’s like the best ink in the world basically,” he explained. “It’s 250 bucks.”
Sensing that he probably sounded insane saying this, Logic then broke down his reasons for buying the expensive products.
“I can afford it,” Logic said, simply. “I donate to various organizations, help single mothers, all types of things like that with my money.”
“The reason that I would invest in things like Supreme, Louis Vuitton and Goyard, I would have made fun of myself 20 years ago, but now I actually understand that instead of buying 10 shit briefcases that are gonna fall apart over the next decade of my life, I can just get a really incredible one that’ll last a lifetime.”
