I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant.
— Logic
It's really cool to come from nothing and essentially be a nobody and make yourself somebody.
I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.
I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.
I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.
I was so scared because I was thought I had to work, work, work, because I thought I might only be around for five years. I thought I wasn't good enough to last.
Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.
I'm very weird with my money.
I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
I love movies. I own, like, every movie, ever.
No I.D. executive-produced 'Under Pressure' and helped me find the Logic sound that's evolving every day.
I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.
I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.
I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'
Black is beautiful.
I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.
If you're right, than be right. There's no need to hurt others.
I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.
You can't put my talents in a box because my talents have put me in a mansion, and I'll be damned if anybody in the world can tell me what I can or cannot do, because they're scared to do it themselves.
My mother was racist.
I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.
I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.
I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.
I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here - I'm a really simple guy.
Not to sound cliche, but some of the first things that I bought were for my homies and my team: making sure the people that helped me and ensured my security and safety during my come-up, while I was broke, had the opportunity to be okay.
Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.
Success doesn't make you happy.
I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.
You have to respect people for what they do. Just because you don't like it, it's like, I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it.
I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.
Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.
Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.
Be not scared to use your voice.
I'm literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity.
I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.
I spent six figures of my own money to get a tour bus and do a fan tour for my second album. I surprised fans at their houses, and we'd eat food and play video games.
My mother was a good woman.
We're human. Enjoy yourself. You work hard every day; you deserve to turn up on the weekends with your friends.
I turn down really well-paid shows all over the world because I want to spend more time with my wife and myself.
Sometimes I watch movies. I don't party. I don't go out. It's just me and my homies in our circle. I stay away from everyone and everything so I can just continue to remain who I am.
Nobody knows this, but the first actual purchase, after I signed my deal and called my bank account and heard how much money was in there - 'cause I was so broke and hungry - was Taco Bell.
Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.
I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.
I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much.
Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.
There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.
If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.
Hate is ugly.
Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.
I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.
