Sayonara

Ayo, for real, look, let me just say this I wanna say I love Def Jam, Def Jam changed my fucking life There's definitely some fuckboys in that building Some suits wearing ties and shit But there's some real good-ass fucking people, man Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff Fucking Justin Duran, Dave Bell Chris Atlas, David Amaya I could fucking go on bro, Lory, Peter, Kate and Gabe We gon' get into the rest later, man, but I fucking love y'all Let's get to this shit, here we go This my Friday Night Lights, track nineteen From major to independent, as sightseen, my Ultralight Beam I ain't finna go into the discrepancies of my deal Like the millions that y'all owe me, I gotta audit y'all for real But you changed my life, that's my word Took a young kid out of Gaithersburg, and you'll never know What it means for a kid in his teens and his entire team To go from open mics to actually living they dreams This a "thank you" to the people in the building For helping me build the empire that I'm still building Diddy said a rapper only gets five years, we doubled that Independent now, won't double back I'm reppin' BMG, yeah, I'm the Big Money Getter Fuck the pop shit, remember Logic as a spitter Just a kid having fun when I step to the mic That's why I never understood the hate I get when I write Back when posting new songs on Internet rap forums All the way to talking shit the first night I sold out The Forum But they hated Jesus, homie I ain't comparing, I'm just reasoning, homie I'm just tryna set an example I went pop and made millions, now all I do is chop samples Egon's finest, peanuts after like I was Linus Followed by that College Park next, that's the line-up First album, the EP was No I.D Last album, the executive producer is me, I'm set free Sayonara So the crazy shit is right, like, when we was shopping deals Mike, Mike Caren over at Atlantic, he offered me a deal for thirty grand I was like fuck no, hahaha, shoutout Mike, though Some independent label offered us one-point-five, and we was like nah But Def Jam hit me up, you know what I'm saying? Noah Preston my A&R for ten fucking years, bro He linked me with No I.D., man, and I was like, "Yo, No I.D.? That's Ye, that's Jay, that's Common, homie, how could we not?" And we signed a deal, we inked that shit up, bro Maurice Frazier, Lisa Bronson, Jason Peerless Fucking Liza, Nakeisha, Mario, Ryan Cordon, I could go on Lynn Gonzalez, yo, Lynn Gonzalez Ian, you motherfucker with the samples Ian be listening to shit that ain't even a sample He's like, "This shit's a sample" I be like, "Ian, shut the fuck up, bro" I love y'all, Antoinette, Donna, Jamie, Stephanie Jenny, Paul, all you motherfuckers know who y'all at And legal, man, album delivery, I fucking love y'all Everybody at fucking A&R, admin, samples PR, marketing, the execs, fucking Barry White's old ass That motherfucker took care of me, man, he signed me I remember seeing a Britney Spears fucking plaque She went fucking diamond I asked Chris Zarou, my manager at VMG I said, "What the fuck is diamond?", he said, "Bro, ten times platinum" I'll never forget I said never, bro, "Never, I'm not gonna go diamond" 1-800 almost diamond, what up? Haha, billions of streams Everybody in sales and commerce, DDC, Marcus Scott, Bobby, fucking Theta, Mac, Eric, Fred Thomas All y'all, sorry for the first name basis but I fuck with y'all Everybody at Radio, man First of all, let me start this shit off with Noah Sheer, Gaithersburg's own We went to fucking Summit Hall Elementary School, bro I mean you like ninety years older than me but it's all good Nicky Farag stepping up in the ranks, I love you shawty Lory LaMattina, Keith Rothschild, fucking Rick Sackheim the God Mundo Garcia, boy Get a bigger pair of pants, your shit look like it's painted on Sonny D, my fucking brother, Britney, Scott, Chico, EP Like, Rodney, Rosie, Rozzy, hahaha, Brian, International, Mike Alexander Marissa, Mira, Art, Ty That's all I gotta say, Ty Lindsey, that's it Finance, fucking finance, Jen Hersh Melissa Bernal, I love y'all Tour Marketing, Albert, Albert Cook Shervah Edwards, video, oh, Millie, gotta love Millie Millie was always on, on the sets like "Alright, make sure the Red Bull can is exactly in front of the shot" I was like, "Millie, get the fuck out of here" Remy, Carolyn, Yolanda, Nadeen And of course, of course Deborah at the sample team, I fucking love you, Deborah I don't even gotta say your full name, you are a goddess Nicole Pastine (and of course the homie Xavier) Rapping is my passion, I love y'all, man, look This what I'ma say about Def Jam, look, man We had some ups and downs, you know what I'm saying? My first album, I was getting sued by some fuckboy And y'all was tryna get me to change my name and shit I spent my whole fucking career, this who I was Y'all trying get me to change my name Y'all wasn't tryna put out my album so we did the while-you-wait shit We went on tour, you know what I'm saying? But eventually shit worked out But even with that, you motherfuckers You know, you under shipped me and shit And that's what I'll say I don't, I really wholeheartedly don't believe that was none of the people I just named either, man Everybody, I fuck with y'all, I rock with y'all Any other fuckboys behind the scenes, y'all could suck a dick Eat my whole fucking ballsack, man This industry is fucked up The wildest shit is I'ma say this, man This whole industry is musical chairs, yo Cats like Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff Harleston, man They, they the real ones, you know what I mean But like motherfuckers be so in-and-out, that's why I didn't stay with Def Jam I went to Def Jam after ten years on the label, because I owed them that I was like, "Okay, so what's up? We signing another deal?" They ain't even get back to me in time So I went somewhere else and I don't know who butthurt or what I could give a fuck, man All I'ma say is I love y'all who rock with me I love y'all who took care of me I love y'all who fucking drove me from New York to Boston to do Radio interviews and shit, man I appreciate y'all It's been a, it's been a dope time on this major label shit, you know what I'm saying? I've made millions and millions of dollars for y'all, hahaha And, uh, we've had some good memories I love you, I appreciate you My only regret is I ain't get to really fuck with Tunji like that We doing this last album, you know what I'm saying? But Tunji, man, that's the God, he's here for the culture Yo man, you're a fucking G bro Much love to Lucian I appreciate all the fucking millions of dollars that you gave me to make these records, hahaha Independent shit next VMG, VMG, Bobby Boy Sayonara Logic as a rapper is an anomaly, a person who is out of time Living in the present you know rooted in the past But, uh, a traditionalist who believes in the future Who believes in what hip-hop was and can still be So we're here in this modern time Thinking about and listening to the development of hip-hop and it's future all at once I think that a lot of people in the modern sense of the word get caught up in how fleeting time is And they believe that what's happening right in front of them Is the most immediate thing and it's the most meaningful thing And they have to engage what's happening in the moment Because the moment's gonna be gone and then they're not gonna care Or no one else around them is gonna care And I think we forget that great experiences in the, in humanity Go on for decades, centuries, sometimes millennia Before we really know how to make sense of them And so, in the same way that the monks in the dark ages were keeping records and saving books You know, it is important for us to really make sense of One of Americas great folk musics, and that's hip-hop And there's very few people who care enough to actually keep the form going While trying to push it forward Logic's one of those dudes And the reason Madlib and I decided that we wanted to work with him Is because he came through with a true sincerity and appreciation for the form And for all of the people that make it And like a true understanding of craft and like, who's doing what And how their technique is either important, relevant Something that needs to be preserved or not And I remind myself that even though hip-hop seems to me In my mid forties, to be an old thing because it's been around since the early '70s It's actually just in its infancy And if it's not for people like Logic tryna keep this tradition alive We're not really gonna know even shortly after, what's supposed to come Um, this hopefully is an art form that's gonna outlast All these art forms that preceded it and formed it And we're only gonna know that if people who truly have the passion, belief And the proficiency, the musical acumen To hold the form, hold it dear And at the same time not be so reverent to it and push it forward Are there to show us the way So hopefully he's one of these dudes, I have that belief --- Sayonara - Logic