My Thoughts on Flexing Retirement

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What’s up guys! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I sure did, decided to drive up a couple hours to visit some friends and it was a great experience. I did however, want talk about something I noticed shortly before I left for my trip which was the release of music by the rapper Logic after saying he retired… for the second time. For those that don’t know, Logic has been one of my favorite rappers of all time, but recently his quality of music and his show of character in recent events have made me a little agitated as a fan. I was a huge fan of his music, and when he first announced retiring after the “Everybody” album, I was devastated. I remember high school me looking up all the forums and discussion that went over this retirement and whether or not it was true. I remember feeling so down to where I relistened to all of his projects thus far knowing it was going to be over. Then, he said he wasn’t actually retiring, and it was completely a joke. I was so frustrated because it was so stressful having my favorite artist announce something so huge and then going back on it. However, it was Logic, so I decided to just ignore it and keep going. Fast forward to 2020, he announces retirement again with his new project “No Pressure”. This time it seemed serious since he recently became a father and said he wanted to dedicate his life to his family. This time I thought he was super serious, and again I felt like I was losing a favorite artist. Fast forward to now, he recently released a single on music platforms with the cover art being a letter from the RATT Pack music label saying, “I’m back”. This left a bad flavor because to me, it seems like Logic is marketing his OWN retirement for more views and attention. And it’s super weird because a lot of his recent music has been about being true to yourself and being the best, you can be. This whole act seems super fake because the last two times he did it, I took it seriously. Now he seems to be bouncing on and off the fence of whether or not he wants to do music, and at this point I don’t really care. This isn’t a cool flex or a good marketing idea, it’s just extra for no reason. And honestly, if one of my artists can’t make up their mind on whether they wanna take music seriously, why should I. I know this is like a rant of some sort, but I sincerely hope he doesn’t encourage other big artists to just use the concept of retirement and not making music for the sake of attention or making a statement of how bored you are in life.

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