I can cry right now cause it’s so emotional how much you guys take the time…
I’m sorry, I could actually get emotional because I’ve spent my whole life doing this.
My whole life.
My whole life has led up to this album.
My whole life has led up to this moment.
This is kind of crazy.
I need you to understand how much I love and care about this and you guys really cherish
and you do something for the culture that other people don't.
And in the times when people call “Nigger.”
They call me “Cracker.”
They say I don't’ matter.
You guys make me matter and I just want to thank you and I want you to know that I appreciate
you as journalists and as editors and writers and I just want to take this time to appreciate
everyone out there who is watching this video and who is taking the time to listen to what
I’m saying with an open mind because this is who I make music for.
Sorry, I just wanted to say that.
This one is like, “I am myself.”
On “Take it Back” it’s “This is me and this is who I am and you might not like
this story, straight up.”
It is about what I have heard.
This is this much of what people have told me or said to me.
It’s like “You are black.
You're not black.
You’re here.
You’re there.
You’re this or that.”
I tweeted something the other day and I said, “Everyone, it is our job to fight for equality
of man.
It is our job to fight against oppression and racism, hatred, homophobia and just all
around discrimination.”
Somebody was like, “Lol.
Logic, that white muthafucker ain’t never gone thorugh oppression and don't’ know
shit about racism or discrimination with his blue eyes, dumb muthafucker,” or some shit
like that.
It’s literally the definition of what I’m discussing and that’s what I face every
single day and that’s what we face every single day as people.
Whether we are people of color or people in general.
There’s always somebody that wants to say something but I think that it’s really funny
by someone's logic, they were like, “Oh you’re talking about fighting oppression
and discrimination and racism.
You’re white.
What do you know about that?”
The melody came to me first.
Cause 6 executively produced the whole album.
Like we’re going to take it so far back to where like the white men have not even
introduced racism into black culture.
It’s just crazy.
That’s how far we're about to take it cause that’s how far my lineage goes back.
This is when it goes back and forth.
“Everybody wanna tell me what I am, what I am not.”
“Why are you always talking about being black?
Your skin is too white.
Nigga, fuck that.”
I’ve literally heard those words come out which is an oxymoron.
You know what I mean?
Referring to me as such...this is a word, growing up and in my family, it's been used.
The only time I ever use this is to express or explain something that is actually happen
to me.
Whether it’s my mother using this word with a fucking hard r or the shit that was screamed
at me and all the stuff that I went through.
Or it’s just somebody like, “Oh you just a white nigger.”
Like what?
And that's the thing that I want people to remember.
Whether you like my music or not, that’s fine.
You can think it’s shit, that's totally A-ok cause that's an opinion and that is fine.
But what you can not negate is my story.
You can’t take away the fact of what I’m telling you is true and that this has all
been said to me and if you don't’ like it and if you don’t like it, that's just your problem.
I have to let it be known because if I silence myself and my story and what I’ve gone through,
I’m not going to be able to help others.
That’s not me talking.
That’s people talking to me.
Cause people are oppressed.
Look at fucking Jesus, Ghandi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, all these incredible amazing
pioneers of love and peace that were shot and gunned down or killed or murdered for
spreading a message of peace and love and telling their story and that’s what I’ve
also been hit with.
People trying to be like, “Fuck you.
I’m going to silence you because I’m not happy with what you’re saying.”
So this is about me now.
So I’m saying I have the gift to gab.
I have the power of my words.
I’m going to use my words.
I’m not going to need to get the gat.
I think this is me at a vulnerable place.
“Tell me why my momma gotta lie to me/Unity for everyone that lied to me,” cause my
mom’s talking about that everybody should be equal but at the same time, I’m here
hearing racist slurs and shit.
And my mother wasn’t just known for that.
Let’s just break it down for people that can understand.
My mother was bipolar.
She had been raped on numerous occasions.
She had a drug addiction.
A pill addiction.
Alcohol addiction.
She went through a lot of things.
I don’t think those things by any means can make the things that she’s done or said
to me or other people ok.
I’m just simply saying she’s a scarred woman so I'm not trying to just beat up on
my mom.
We have no relationship.
I haven’t spoken to her since I was 20 years old.
And it just feels that the more I try to spread the message of equality, the more people hate
me for it.
The more people try to gun me down.
The more people try to tell me that unity isn’t real.
I’m not trying to say that i’ve given up on that.
I’m just saying that in that moment it almost feels like it’s a lie, it can never happen.
You know what’s crazy?
This whole song was originally just “Take it back/Take it way way back,” and then
that went into the spoken word, which I just freestyled in one take.
And I listened back to the whole thing and I was like, “This is so dope and this is
very powerful but this beat is too hard to not rap on.”
So I had the hook part but the beat is too hard, I got on rap on this shit.
I just saw myself at shows, on tour and I was like, “I got to do something where I
can really just let off on this.
This was literally like "Hey man, this is what I've gone through
And all of these people that only know my music, who don’t give a fuck to actually
watch things like this or go to youtube or watch interviews, all they know is “Flexecution"
and “Under Pressure.”
And whatever song I got out that’s popping at the time and they’re just like, “This
corny white dude.
Fuck this guy.”
But i’m like, fine.
For the people that are only going to give me one listen, Ima really put it all out there.
And I hope you keep this in here, fuck everybody who gives me a one listen review.
Fuck everybody.
Fuck every journalist out there who wants to give me a one listen review and I mean
that positively.
That’s a real thing.
That’s where we are.
Everything is right now.
Right here.
And you don't give a shit about my music.
You don’t care about my fucking message.
You just want to make money.
You want to be the first person that you can click.
“This is what we thought about Logic’s album.”
Give me 30 days, fam.