Logic

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II – born in Rockville, Maryland on January 22, 1990) - is better known by his stage name, Logic. He was brought up in a tough inner-city district of Gaithersburg, Maryland: both his parents were addicts and his brothers were drug dealers. After being expelled from high school, he began to look for a purpose in his life and discovered it in hip-hop music. He has cited Frank Sinatra as one of his major influences and he titled his fourth mixtape Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever. That digital mixtape was downloaded over 700,000 times, which brought him to the attention of fabled hip-hop label Def Jam. Under Pressure, his debut studio album for the label, sold 70,000 copies in its first week, entering Billboard's Hip-Hop/R&B chart at number 2. Follow-up album The Incredible True Story sold 135,000 copies in its first week, underlining Logic's growing popularity as a hip-hop artist. Since leaving the projects, he had become a clean-living abstainer forgoing cigarettes and drugs for the occasional glass of champagne. In subsequent years, this clarity of mind allowed him to continue honing his craft and reach the top of the rap charts in the US with releases like Everybody (2017), Bobby Tarantino II (2018), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2019), and No Pressure (2020). Featuring cameos by DJ Premier, RZA, Royce da 5'9, The Game, AZ, Russ, Action Bronson, and Wiz Khalifa, his eighth studio album, Vinyl Days (2022), debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200. Logic left Def Jam and signed with BMG subsidiary BobbyBoy Records and issued his eighth album, College Park (2023), which reached number 7 on the Billboard Rap Albums chart. In 2024, he released the album Ultra 85, which included the singles “Fear,” “44ever,” “Déjà vu” (featuring DJ Drama), “Mission Control” (featuring T Man the Wizard), and “Teleport.”