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\nSuch is the multi-hyphenate mind of Logic. Born in 1990 and raised in bleak circumstances around Gaithersburg, Maryland (his parents were addicts; his brothers were dealers), he picked up rapping as a teenager after hearing Wu-Tang figurehead RZA’s soundtrack for the movie Kill Bill: Volume 1. He built an audience through a series of grassroots mixtapes, helming a lyrical, storytelling-heavy style whose sound ranged from classic boom-bap and backpacker rap to contemporary pop and trap (or, as he put it on “Bounce,” “Bumping everything from Project Pat to Dilla”).
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