Ayo, for real, look, let me just say this

I wanna say I love Def Jam, Def Jam changed my fuckin′ life

There's definitely some fuckboys in that buildingSome suits wearing ties and shit

But it′s some real good-ass fuckin' people, man

Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff

Fuckin' Justin Duran, Dave Bell

Chris Atlas, David Amaya

I could fuckin′ go on bro, Lory, Peter, Kate and Gabe

We gon′ get into the rest later, man, but I fuckin' love y′all

Let's get to this shit, here we go

This my Friday Night Lights, track ninеteen

From major to independent, as sightseen, my Ultralight Bеam

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 livin′ 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 double that

Independent now, won't double back

I rep the BMG, yeah, I′m the Big Money Getter

Fuck the pop shit, remember Logic as a spitter

Just a kid havin' 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 talkin' 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 pressed 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

Fuckin′ 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 fuckin′ love y'all

Everybody in fuckin′ A&R, admin, samples

PR, marketing, the execs, fuckin' Barry White′s old ass

That motherfucker took care of me, man, he signed me

I remember seeing a Britney Spears fuckin' 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, fuckin′ 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 fuckin′ Summit Hall Elementary School, bro

I mean you like ninety years older than me but it's all good

Nicky Farag steppin′ up in the ranks, I love you shawty

Lory LaMattina, Keith Rothschild, fuckin' Rick Sackheim the God

Mundo Garcia, boy

Get a bigger pair of pants, your shit look like it's painted on

Sonny D, my fuckin′ brother, Britney, Scott, Chico, EP

Like, Rodney, Rosie, Rozzy, Brian, International, Mike Alexander

Marissa, Mira, Art

Ty, that′s all I gotta say, Ty Lindsey, that's it

Finance, fuckin′ 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 the, 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 fuckin′ love you, Deborah

I don't even gotta say your full name, you are a goddess

Nicole Pastine (and of course the homie Xavier)

Rappin′ 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 gettin′ sued by some fuckboy

And y'all was tryna get me to change my name and shit

I spent my whole fuckin′ career, this who I was

Y'all tryna 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 fuckin′ 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 take care of me

I love y′all who fuckin' drove me from New York to Boston to do

Radio interviews and shit man

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 and millions of dollars for y'all, hahaha

And uhh, 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 doin′ this last album, you know what I'm sayin′?

But Tunji, man, that's the God, he's here for the culture

Yo man, you′re a fuckin′ G bro

Much love to Lucian

Appreciate all the fuckin' 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 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 anybody even really knows 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 forwards

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 who 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 trying to keep this tradition alive

We're not really gonna know even shortly after, what's supposed to come

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