It wasn’t going to matter to me because I would be out of my deal.Īre there hard feelings, or are you just moving on to the next thing?
I was going to make beats and freestyle, and people were either going to like it or they weren’t. Instead of some grandiose concept, I decided I was just going to rap. I wanted to get off my label, bro, but I didn’t want to give them BS. “Vinyl Days” sounds more fun than anything you’ve recorded previously. With “Vinyl Days,” I did it in 12 days, and just wanted to have fun. Last year, I released “Bobby Tarantino III,” just to get together songs I had, and put them out, then released this new album because I needed to fulfill my deal with Def Jam. That’s when I decided to come back from retirement. Then, I came to realize that none of this shit matters, that I can make music on my terms. I did retire, for a little bit, at least in my mind, from the bullshit of the music industry. I really just wanted to be off Def Jam, to be frank.
How did the idea of spitting free verse come to mind for this project? “Vinyl Days” is more about your love for hip-hop than the more issue-oriented tracks you’ve recorded. Signed to BMG in a licensing deal with marketing and distribution (technically the new deal starts in nine months, with management working to shorten that length of time), Logic will have ownership of his masters.