Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Its only major mainstream rapper was Wale. On March 4 and 5, he plays two hometown shows at the 2,000-seat Fillmore in Silver Spring. Now he’s trying to make it in an industry that tends to second-guess white rappers. Pop quiz: In 2014, which rookie rapper scored the highest first-week sales for Def Jam, hip-hop’s most hallowed record label? Here are a few of our favorites. Today’s rehearsal is for tomorrow’s performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “He’s earned the level of respect that comes when we know where you came from and what you love,” No I.D., Kanye West’s mentor, who produced Under Pressure, told me last year. Logic has a thing for Rubik’s Cubes—he owns dozens and likes to solve them while he raps. But with Zarou’s marketing help, Logic’s music soon caught fire on music blogs with college-age readerships. Inside the Kimmel dressing rooms, Logic seems more stressed about solving a Rubik’s Cube in less than a minute than in putting on a show for 2.3 million viewers. Photograph of bedroom photo courtesy of Logic. Jeff Weiss (@passionweiss) is a writer in Los Angeles who writes for Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and LA Weekly. There was heavy competition, including from Fat Trel and Shy Glizzy—two street rappers with strong followings. Erica “Buss It” Banks Talks Relationship With Megan Thee Stallion, New Music + More, Angie’s Motivation: Why You Need To Stop Replaying The Past In Your Mind. [WATCH], RHOA’s Drew Sidora SPILLS About Show Drama, Tells Set Secrets , & Talks Decades Long Acting Career. Because you’re reading a profile about him, you inevitably made a wise selection and chose C. The answer wouldn’t be obvious otherwise, because it’s the most improbable of the three. . Mostly under 25, the RattPackers are a diverse crowd. The crowd is already roaring when Kimmel’s hype man finally announces him and Logic cruises onto the stage, all adrenaline and quick-twitch muscles as his backup singers, violinists, cellist, and deejay fire up “Buried Alive.” He stares, slightly dazzled at the size of the crowd. The show is all exuberance, Logic bounding across the stage, teenagers waving posters of his face, and RATT PACK POR VIDA! Tumult, meanwhile, continued to reverberate through his personal life. “There was one guy heckling him that night, but Logic never wavered.”. (In interviews with MTV and Hard Knock TV, Hall has talked candidly about his drug use and his family’s history of addiction, saying that his son “saw a lot of things that he shouldn’t have.” In Hall’s words, “Shit does happen in Gaithersburg.”). He influenced a generation of new bands and was the driving force behind popularizing go-go. He comes back to Washington for concerts on March 4 and 5. On the title track of Under Pressure, he raps in character as the elder Hall, saying he’s two years sober and politely asking his son to stop rapping about his past drug abuse, then asking for money in the next breath. 2. One Of Them Has To Be Cappin’ – Is It Lamar Odom or Sabrina Parr?! Photograph of yearbook photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools. Stream Rappers Being Rappers (Tupac Skit) by DC(Saurus) from desktop or your mobile device All Rights Reserved. “He was raised in the nice part of town by two wonderful parents who loved him. C) Logic, a blue-eyed biracial artist who hails from Gaithersburg, a.k.a. Rap Video That Breaks Down Voting Goes Viral, Catch Everything Chance the Rapper Did on SNL, Your email will be shared with thebeatdfw.com and subject to its. Photograph by Emily Shur. How Did African American’s Impact The Space Program? Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Photograph courtesy of Logic. Well, even if you didn't know the name of the rappers in the Geico commercial, the name of the group is embroidered on the guy on the right's jacket, Steve "Roll'n" Gibson. (In “Gang Related,” a simulated news broadcast announcing “a massive manhunt” after a deadly shooting near the 400 block of West Deer Park in Gaithersburg is spliced in between a tale told through the eyes of Logic and one of his brothers. This is crazy.”. 10kkk!!! How it works (it’s simple!) “It was the same exact scenario. DC RAPPERS WHO SHOT MUSIC VIDEO IN NORTH KOREA RETURNS, EXPLAINS TRIP + PREVIEWS VIDEO (VIDEO) He died in May 2012. Credit a trio of mentors who watched over him in his teens. Hours before the Jimmy Kimmel taping, the line of Logic super-fans extends for blocks on Hollywood Boulevard. Even though the bad far outweighs the good, I do want it to be known that there were many sweet moments in my life.”, His relationship with his father is more complex. From Largo's Q Da Fool to Baltimore's Deetranada rappers from all over "the urrea" have entrenched the DMV rap scene as one to be reckoned with. Copyright © 2021 Interactive One, LLC. 1. Logic’s only material indulgences seem to be a video projector, a vintage Akai MPC sampler, and dozens of Rubik’s Cubes. Battle the image inside of my mind / I know Imma keep going / Tell me I can’t but I’m already knowing / I know I’m gonna rise / Even though I’ve been buried alive / Buried alive, will I survive? The genre, a percussion-centered blend of R&B and funk and shades of … When the song ends, Logic announces he’s going to give a four-song mini-concert in the Kimmel lot, and the applause spills out onto Hollywood Boulevard. Two nights before the Kimmel show, his fiancée threw him a surprise party at home for his 25th birthday. He’s had a couple of momentous months. But another part of Logic’s heritage is also central to his album—and makes him stand out in hip-hop. “Papa was a black man, mama was a racist,” he raps in a song called “Mixed Feelings,” about his desire to “break free of this biracial jail cell.”. He isn’t flashy. 39. Today Logic is modestly dressed in his de facto uniform: baseball cap, black jacket and jeans, red retro Air Jordans. Aaron Tyler was born in Compton, California, on May 22, 1971. These are the 28 Dallas-Ft. Worth rappers you should be following: Busta Rhymes “Boomp!,” Benny The Butcher “Famous” & More | Daily Visuals 11.30.20, Kyle Anfernee, Talks Creating ‘Neighborhood Talk’ , Leaving The Shaderoom , Celebrity Beefs + More, The Morning Hustle Agree To This Friendly Super Bowl Wager [WATCH], Kodak Black Reveals New Post-Prison Look & T.I. There were many tributes in the following days that came in the form o… Logic started playing clubs across the country, booking larger venues each time. Above: Shy Glizzy by Ryan Lyons. 58 on "Billboard's Greatest Songs of All-Time!" He rents a house in LA’s Tarzana neighborhood, which is mostly home to lawyers and professionals, not garish entertainers. We'll help you live your best #DCLIFE every day, These Excellent Covid-19 Posters Are Both Beautiful and Beneficial, Junkyard Empire Brings a Maryland Family’s Auto Business Back to TV, The Great Washington Bucket List: 50 Things Every Local Needs to Do, 6 Great Swimming Holes Near Washington, DC, Four Great Language Schools in Washington, These DC-Area Albums Are Showing up on Best-of-the-Year Lists. Chuck Brown would be proud. For the first time in my life, I know how important that is to me.”. The numbers wouldn’t be all that spectacular for an established recording artist. The result was an album that pays tribute to his own favorite hip-hop acts. 217 Rapper reviews on GigSalad with an average rating of 4.5 stars. The Rise of DC Street Rap. “I don’t necessarily identify with his past, but it’s inspiring to hear how he overcame it,” says the high-school senior wearing a Logic T-shirt. RELATED: Green Label - Artists to Watch For In 2014 Rather than rent a tricked-out LA recording studio, Logic likes to stay home and work in a spare bedroom. Bobby became Logic with the help of another hungry twentysomething. The first was former Gaithersburg resident Solomon Taylor, who met Logic while videotaping games for the Rockville youth football league. He says he’s uninterested in Hollywood clichés or temptations, and he lives pretty low-key. Born to a black father and a white mother, he was frequently derided as “white boy” growing up because of his pale skin tone. Having heard himself sound maybe a little too real about his ambition, he backtracks slightly: “But this is all amazing and I don’t take it for granted.”. “He’s a modern, interesting artist who fits into a new era and style of MCs,” says Peter Rosenberg, the Chevy Chase-raised deejay who has become one of New York’s biggest radio stars on Hot 97 FM. Follow The Beat On Twitter: Follow @’979thebeat’, Busta Rhymes “Boomp!,” Benny The Butcher “Famous” & More | Daily Visuals 11.30.20Kyle Anfernee, Talks Creating ‘Neighborhood Talk’ , Leaving The Shaderoom , Celebrity Beefs + MoreThe Morning Hustle Agree To This Friendly Super Bowl Wager [WATCH]Kodak Black Reveals New Post-Prison Look & T.I. Francisco is wearing an autographed Logic basketball jersey. Brad Jordan, was born and raised in Houston, Texas, in the South Park neighborhood. Eventually, he’ll buy a BMW, he says. By all accounts, parties and clubs don’t tempt him. By rap-star standards, his living situation is actually modest. There’s Jennifer and Francisco Valle, 22 and 24—a Latino brother and sister who drove in from their home in South LA. (The extra “t” is a nod to the “real all the time” motto.). The hip-hop magazine XXL compared him to Kanye West and pronounced that Logic was here to stay. Join the Crowd. A) YG, the biggest West Coast gangsta rapper in a decade. His childhood vice—cigarettes—has been tamed, thanks to e-cigs. One of the few dissenting voices was Rolling Stone, which hailed his “technically excellent style” but said he lacked “emotional depth.”. [WATCH]RHOA’s Drew Sidora SPILLS About Show Drama, Tells Set Secrets , & Talks Decades Long Acting Career. The influence that rappers like Fat Rodney, DC Scorpio, Stinky Dink, Tony Blunt and P.O.P. Logic and his mentor, Chevy Chase resident Solomon Taylor, in LA in 2014—years after Taylor bought the troubled teen equipment to get started as a rapper. the boondocks of hip-hop. To pay the bills, he worked at the Gaithersburg Safeway and Jiffy Lube and as a florist. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. Judge for Yourself Here. No visible tattoos. No particular order. This list will not include firmly established mainstream acts such as Logic, Wale and Pusha T or people who have been in the underground for years such as Oddisee and X.O. Shortly after his death, nearly every radio station in D.C. played his music. The rapper’s preadolescent memories—multiple incidents in which he says he was accidentally abandoned in public places, all the drugs he says he saw relatives getting high on, birthdays and Christmases without gifts, refrigerators filled with only stale rice cakes and powdered milk—are almost uniformly traumatic yet recounted without the least bit of drama. It’s Gone [VIDEO], Who’s Cappin’!? Go-go was still king but DC was beginning to develop a parallel hip-hop community. 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