“America,” Logic featuring Black Thought, Chuck D, No ID and Lenbo
There has to be a voice for this generation (born in 1990s and above) that articulates the outrageous disgust it has for the culture of American life. Logic’s “America” has that bold gall. Reminiscent of the Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad, the song is urgent and angry. It is an anger that Logic had really relayed in his music, rapped in racial frustration, socio-political angst and immaculate lyricism from Chuck D, Black Thought, Lenbo, the artist and producer No I.D.
Written in 2017, around the time that Donald Trump was settling into his position as the president, and in his verse took no hesitancy to pop a man that once was considered one of the culture’s most prolific thinkers, Kanye West.
“George Bush doesn’t care about Black people … 2017 and Donald Trump is the sequel so … Sh*t, I’ll say what Kanye won’t … Wake the f–k up and give the people what they want. Man, it’s all love but the youth is confused. Your music is 20/20 but them political views … is blurred I ain’t trying to leave ya name slurred … ‘Cause honestly I idolize you on everything, my word. But I gotta say what need be said … ‘Cause I ain’t f*ckin’ with that hat, with the colors that’s white and red.”
Then he cemented himself in the conversation, putting his bi-racial identity on the table.
“I know some people wish I’d act white instead … Say I’d use my pigment as manifestation to get ahead … F*ck that, everything I do, I do it right … To teach the people that they have the power to fight … and not with the semi-automatic bullets in the night … So everybody, everywhere, listen to this fact … Nobody treated equally, especially the Black.”
If you don’t get it the first time, bring it back!”
Logic also took to Twitter and announced No I.D.’s spit-kicking on the track and said, “Can we just take a moment to point out the fact that NO ID @cocaine80s is rapping on my album 4 the first time in 20 years What?! Like what?”
The Chicago track master is outraged at some of the comments heard around the country, “Now send the Black back to Africa… Build a wall for the Mexicans … Send the whites back to Europe … Give the land to the Native American.”
With “America” Logic drops a song that not only surrounds himself with legends in Hip-Hop with the Roots and PE front-runners, but it is whole of the song that reminds us that freedom fighting is not lost on millennials and Gen Zers.