YSIV obviously stands for Young Sinatra 4 which is Logic’s fourth major studio album and the fourth and final entry in his Young Sinatra mixtapes. Logic utilized NaS’ famous lyric in everyone of his Young Sinatra mixtapes, and on September 28th, 2018….he brought it back one last time as a gift for all his fans. until a young rapper decided to make that his most famous sample of all time. Now, he is one rappity-rap being.Those seven words forever immortalized by NaS….
The Young Sinatra legacy endured because Logic allowed his persona to exist in tandem with each of his at-the-time personas. With a call to the past, in 2018, Logic sounds the most like himself. The fight he began all those years ago and extended across the three previous Young Sinatra projects is finally won on YSIV. Turning those fears into the multi-perspective storyline of “Legacy” and leaning into what originally made him a catching artist only speaks to how savvy Logic truly is.įinally, we have the “Last Call” monologue to index every twist of Logic’s battle for stardom. Recall 2014’s Under Pressure, largely understood to be Logic’s best studio album, and the refrain on the title track: “ Work so fucking much, my greatest fear is I’mma die alone.” Where Logic-and Young Sinatra-is most loved for lyrics that inspire fans to hustle hard, it was always those moments of reasonable anxiety that presented him at his most human and approachable. Out from those warring ideals, we arrive at the core of how Logic cultivated and preserved the Young Sinatra legacy. Where Logic often speaks about sacrificing his 20s for a better life, the whole of “Legacy” is congruent with his personal struggles.
So in the album cover itself, we have things people haven’t found yet, but also in the packaging.” Here we see how legacy and long term engagement go hand-in-hand, or in the case of Spratt, hand-in-brush.Īs we’ve come to expect from Logic, YSIV is packed with moral imperatives, the most relevant of which comes on the aptly titled “Legacy”: “ We really should’ve just spent time.” On this track, Logic bucks legacy altogether, especially when it involves sidelining your loved ones, and instead resolves to be mindful and live his life in the present.
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As his trusted painter and friend Sam Spratt told us: “That’s cool to have things where he is thinking far enough ahead, and I get to work with him to figure out how to visually drop those things. That is legacy in the most organic sense: an idea that can take root and sprout without much outside prodding.įollowing that line of thinking and keeping with our fine art metaphor, Logic had been hiding clues hinting at the existence of YSIV since his stunning Everybody cover. Their own zeal kept the persona alive in their hearts.
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While the Young Sinatra series was thought to be cut short in 2013, it’s clear that Logic remained just withholding and coy enough to keep the persona on fans’ minds. Over the past five years, Logic tactfully peppered Young Sinatra into his music: The Incredible True Story’s “Young Jesus,” showing the softer side on his “Tree of Life” single with Slug of Atmosphere and Killer Mike, and featuring as Young Sinatra on Big Lenbo’s “Ice Cold” and “ Bobby Tarantino II’s “Warm It Up.” “The reason why this album is so special and the people love it-what I’ve released, and what they’ll hear-so much, is because I made them wait for it,” Logic told Nick Huff of Hard Knock TV.
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