Logic's done making us wait and has officially dropped Vinyl Days to the masses
Maryland rapper Logic is coming through for the fans in a big way. The hip-hop veteran has stepped up to finally come through on dropping his new Vinyl Days album to the masses.
Logic hits the green light on dropping Vinyl Days
After mounted anticipation, the day has come for the world to hear what Logic has been cooking up. The project marks his first in nearly two full years.
The wait is over, as Grammy®-nominated, multi-platinum artist Logic drops VINYL DAYS today via Def Jam Recordings. VINYL DAYS,the eighth studio album from Logic and one of the most highly anticipated new albums of 2022, is his first official album since No Pressure (July 2020), his fifth LP to enter at #1 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.
In the run-up to the release of VINYL DAYS, seven of the album’s tracks hit the streets in advance, starting in April with the “Decades" single and “Tetris" single + video; followed in May by “Therapy Music” featuring Russ; then the title tune “Vinyl Days” featuring DJ Premier; “Orville” featuring Like, Blu & Exile; “Bleed It”; and most recently “Breath Control” featuring Wiz Khalifa.
The summer tour is on deck, too
It’s more than just putting out fire tunes. Log is also gearing up to hit the road alongside Pittsburgh rap icon Wiz Khalifa for their Vinyl Verse Tour 2022.
The arrival of VINYL DAYS precedes the coming of the Vinyl Verse Tour 2022this summer, co-headlined by Logic and Wiz Khalifa, produced by Live Nation, featuring special guests DJ DRAMA, C Dot Castro, and Fedd the God. The 28-city tour will kick off July 27th at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA. There will be stops across the U.S. in Houston, Atlanta, Brooklyn, and more before wrapping up on September 2nd at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis. Vinyl Verse Tour 2022 is Logic’s first major road trip since his 26-city North American Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Tour in October-November 2019. Visit vinylverse.co for more info. (Please see complete tour dates below.)
Keeping tabs on Logic
He’s no rooking to the rap game. Logic has remained a consistent hip-hop artist with both hard-hitting tracks and lyrics to prove it for over a decade.
The recent string of singles from VINYL DAYS mark the first new music from Logic since his five-week campaign of Friday advance track releases in early summer 2021 – including “Intro,” “Vaccine” (video), “Get Up,” “My Way,” and“Call Me” – that led up to the July 30th release of Bobby Tarantino 3. The mixtape album hit the platforms five years to the month after the 2016 appearance of the original RIAA gold Bobby Tarantino mixtape, which rose to #2 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It included "Flexicution," Logic’s first RIAA platinum Hot 100 and R&B/Hip-Hop crossover hit single + video as a Def Jam artist.
Multi-platinum, Grammy® nominated artist Logic (aka Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, aka Bobby Hall) – among the top streaming artists in the world with billions of streams to date – burst onto the music scene through a series of mixtapes that led to a significant, rabid underground fan base. Those tapes – Young, Broke, and Infamous (2010); Young Sinatra (2011); Young Sinatra: Undeniable (2012); and Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever (2013) –earned millions of downloads and streams. They jumpstarted a worldwide tour that led to his record deal with Def Jam Recordings in 2014, and release of his debut album Under Pressure that year. Logic kept up the pace with his second album, The Incredible True Story (2015, with the RIAA gold “Fade Away”), followed by Everybody (2017), containing the landmark 5x-platinum “1-800-273-8255” (National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid.
Overlapping Logic’s albums were new mixtapes Bobby Tarantino (2016, with the RIAA gold single “Flexicution”), and Bobby Tarantino II (2018, with the RIAA platinum “44 More” and “Everyday”). YSIV (September 2018), the fourth chapter of his Young Sinatra saga, contained "One Day" which Logic performed with Ryan Tedder and over 200 immigrant children, their siblings and parents at the MTV VMAs. 2019 kicked off with the publication in March of Supermarket (Simon & Schuster), the debut novel written by Bobby Hall, which entered the New York Times Paperback Fiction bestseller list at #1 – first-ever for a hip-hop artist. It was accompanied by the Supermarket “soundtrack” album, which debuted inside the Top 10 on the Billboard Alternative Album chart, an ‘Alt’ chart first for Logic.
The prolific artist dropped his fifth studio album in May 2019, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind. It was preceded by the title tune single and video, “Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind,” and RIAA platinum “Homicide” featuring Eminem. No Pressure was released July 2020, which Logic described as his farewell effort as his retirement was announced.. The 14-track YS Collection Vol. 1 (June 2021) was drawn from the three-part Young Sinatra indie mixtape series that ultimately led to Logic’s signing with Def Jam back in 2014. He surprised everyone with the release of Bobby Tarantino 3 in July 2021, a new album celebrating the fifth anniversary of the BT mixtape series’ launch in 2016.
The long-awaited follow-up to Supermarket, This Bright Future was published September 2021, the autobiography of Bobby Hall. It was described as “an explosive memoir by one of the most inspiring voices of our generation, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age.”
