Logic opened up about growing up as a biracial child and his family’s substance abuse problems in his music. On his Logically Speaking podcast, the artist confronts his father, Robert Bryson Hall Sr., 69, about his childhood trauma.
At the 28:24 mark, Logic and his father discussed past addiction and absence during the rapper’s youth. In tears, Logic said to his father: “There’s a part of me that has grown and developed mentally, but there is still that little boy that’s still waiting on the curb for his dad.”
For fans, Logic has addressed his abandonment issues along with other sensitive subjects like suicide and racism. A father now, Logic told his senior about becoming a man of his word because of him.
He continued: “I waited every weekend and you never showed up. You always said that you would […] I look at my son and I think how much my son means to me. I’m a man of my word today because you aren’t. I want you to know that it really hurt [and] I just want to ask: what is it like as a man who used a substance that would allow you to make that little boy wait forever? Was it worth it?”
Logic’s father replied to the rapper’s inquiries with the following: “It felt like being in Hell. It felt like having something control me. Like Rick James said, cocaine’s a Hell of a drug. I was young, self-centered and stupid as fuck, but if I knew then what I knew now, my life would probably be different.”
As an adult, Logic and his father established a relationship that has had its ups and downs, including his dad asking for a million dollars to the rap star signing his father to his record label in 2023.
Logic made his comeback to hip-hop in 2021 after retiring in 2020. Last week he released his new single “Fear” via BMG and has plans to drop a new album later this year.
In 2020, He stayed up late with Peter Rosenberg to talk in detail about retirement and dealing with social media. Watch the full interview below.