A few years in the past, I wrote about why hip-hop doesn’t really do covers of previous songs and albums like different genres. I nonetheless assume it’s fairly good, however final week, rap followers acquired an object lesson in how harshly a canopy can get judged when Logic put a melodic spin on Ice Dice’s 1992 basic “It Was A Good Day.”
Whereas Logic doesn’t see hip-hop as a competition, loads of rap followers had been appalled that he would deign to recreate such a seminal tune from the hip-hop canon. Nonetheless, he shrugged off the backlash on TikTok, claiming that he’d already acquired crucial co-sign: One from Ice Dice himself.
Replying to a remark that steered he do an entire album of comparable covers, Logic posted an entire new video saying, “It’s humorous it is best to say that as a result of I thought of doing that… All people’s all pissed off at me as a result of I did a f*cking Ice Dice cowl. In the meantime, I texted Ice Dice and he’s like, ‘Man, carry on doing you, brotha.’ Who provides a fuck [about the backlash]?”
He additionally agreed a couple of potential covers album, positing he might use it for trigger. “I ought to do an entire f*cking album, and simply do an entire album of f*cking hard-ass ’90s data and name it Logic Biggest Hits, and get all them paid, and get them publishing, and maintain all of the legends and the GOATs and the greats from the 90s.”
Whereas it appears that evidently Logic may have a refresher on how publishing royalties work, it’s onerous to be mad at him for working to flip a fairly adverse scenario right into a useful one, even when it doesn’t fairly work the way in which he appears to assume (many early pioneers of hip-hop don’t personal their publishing, in order that they most likely wouldn’t receives a commission a lot, if in any respect, by a covers album). And whereas that will make some rap followers offended, it actually does appear as if it’d generate some buzz.
To see Logic carry out his personal songs, you possibly can verify him out on tour with Juicy J.
