Logic

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II (born January 22, 1990), known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II was born on January 22, 1990, at Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville, Maryland.

He was born to Robert Bryson Hall, a black Maryland native, and a white mother.

Between his father and mother, he has seven half-siblings.

Logic spent much of his youth in the West Deer Park neighborhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

His father suffered from a cocaine addiction and his mother suffered from alcoholism.

Despite his father initially being absent in his childhood, Logic was able to reconnect with Hall due to his burgeoning rap career.

During his early adolescent years, Logic witnessed his brothers produce and distribute crack cocaine to "addicts all over the block", including to his father.

Logic maintains that he accurately knows how to manufacture and produce crack cocaine following these experiences.

He attended neighboring Gaithersburg High School.

However, he did not graduate and was soon expelled after he began skipping classes in the tenth grade.

Logic would comment on the expulsion, stating "I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school, they gave up on me."

At the age of 13, Logic met Solomon Taylor, who would soon become his mentor.

Logic became interested in rap and hip hop after watching the movie Kill Bill: Volume 1, directed by Quentin Tarantino.

The film's score was produced by RZA, a member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

Following this, Logic began listening to the group, and soon expressed a deep affection for hip hop.

Logic bought the Roots' album Do You Want More?!!!??! later that year, which prompted Taylor to bring Logic a large number of CDs containing instrumental beats, for him to write lyrics over.

He released his debut mixtape, Psychological: The Mixtape in December 2009 under the name Psychological, thereafter shortening his name to Logic.

In 2009, Logic performed under the stage name "Psychological" with Logic describing the name as "one name that really stuck [with me]. I just loved this word because it was about the mind and I knew that's what I wanted my music to consist of; something that really challenges the mind".

He released an unofficial mixtape titled Psychological – Logic: The Mixtape under his original stage name.

The mixtape allowed Logic to serve as the opening act for artists like Pitbull, EPMD, Method Man, Redman, and Ludacris at various shows all over Maryland.

Soon after, he shortened the "Psychological" moniker to "Logic".

Following these introductory experiences, Logic released his first official mixtape, Young, Broke & Infamous, on December 15, 2010.

The mixtape was well received by critics and was the genesis for Logic to establish an early following.

Chris Zarou, the president of Visionary Music Group, heard the mixtape and signed Logic to the independent label.

Upon signing, Logic stated in an interview, "Visionary Music Group is like Roc-A-Fella. Damon Dash, that's like Chris Zarou of Visionary Music Group, I like to see myself as a Jay. In no way am I arrogant or cocky, I have to see it in order to do it. They did it independent and when they signed with a major, they did it the way that they wanted to do it".

The mixtape was confirmed to have been downloaded over 300,000 times on online mixtape sharing platform DatPiff.

He gained popularity following his Young Sinatra (2011) mixtape series; its third installment, Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever (2013) received critical acclaim and led him to secure a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings.

Logic released his second mixtape, Young Sinatra, in 2011.

Logic's first two studio albums—Under Pressure (2014) and The Incredible True Story (2015)—both peaked within the top five of the U.S. Billboard 200, while the former received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Logic achieved his furthest success and mainstream recognition with his third album Everybody (2017), which peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and was supported by the Billboard Hot 100 top-three single "1-800-273-8255" (featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid).

His fourth and fifth albums, YSIV (2018) and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2019) were met with similar commercial success; the latter contained the single "Homicide" (featuring Eminem), which peaked at number five on the Hot 100.

As an author, he released the novel Supermarket (2019), which was accompanied with a namesake soundtrack album.

The book became a New York Times Best Seller, although both works received generally unfavorable critical reception.

He published his memoir, This Bright Future, in 2021.

Logic is also a streamer and is signed exclusively with Twitch, becoming the first musician to do so.

After his sixth album No Pressure (2020), Logic retired from music; however, his career would continue with the release his seventh mixtape Bobby Tarantino III (2021).

His seventh album, Vinyl Days (2022) was his final release with Def Jam.

His eighth album, College Park (2023) was released independently.

Logic has received two Grammy Award nominations.