History YMMV / Logic

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: “1-800” increased calls to the Suicide Hotline exponentially, possibly saving thousands of lives. Logic performed it at the 2018 Grammy Awards and gathered suicide survivors onstage with him. Also worth noting he went on right after the In Memoriam...specifically, the final shot of [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington.]]

** ''Supermarket'' was definitely the center of some of the most intense cuts of this debate. While it being [[OutOfGenreExperience a shift in a completely new pop/indie rock direction]] was enough to [[AudienceAlienatingPremise kill the interest of some]], its actual execution led many to lambast its sound as heavily derivative and its songwriting as rudimentary and [[{{Narm}} unintentionally hilarious]] with some of the most vitriolic reviews Logic's ever seen. The album is seen as the near-objective low point of his career, but since its release, several camps of public opinion were built alongside the aforementioned savaging -- people who dislike the album but find it nowhere near warranting of the abysmal reputation it has, people who are insistent on defending the album as at the very least not ''that'' bad, and people who respect it solely for the creative risk Logic took in trying something different.

*** "1-800", for its surface-level approach to suicide and mental illness and/or its [[MoodDissonance inappropriately cheery ad-lib]], “Who can relate? WHOO!” WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows made the song a dishonorable mention for his worst of 2017 list just for the ad-lib.

* BrokenBase: Of the various things Logic is known for in the public eye, his divisiveness is assuredly one of them.
** In general terms, one of the more prominent splits in fan opinion has centered around whether Logic's less serious turn-up music should be given as much time of day as his conscious, lyrical music.
** While most people agree that his first several projects are solid, everything following ''The Incredible True Story'' [[SeasonalRot is a different ballgame]]. Depending on who you ask, he gradually got worse starting with ''Bobby Tarantino'', as his formerly minor flaws became accentuated and many objective criticisms against him have been brought forward, such as recycling rhyme schemes, repeating certain lyrics multiple times in a row, and relying on incredibly rudimentary wordplay. The only thing most people can agree on is that ''Confessions'' is by far his worst rap album, with even his most diehard fans vocally expressing how terrible it was.
** ''Supermarket'' was definitely the center of some of the most intense cuts of this debate. While its being an OutOfGenreExperience rooted in pop rock and indie was enough to [[AudienceAlienatingPremise kill the interest of some]], its actual execution led many to single out its heavily derivative sound and rudimentary, {{narm}}-filled songwriting with some of the most vitriolic reviews Logic's ever seen. It's seen as the near-objective low point of his career as well as one of the worst albums of its time. Since its release, several camps of public opinion have been built of people who dislike the album but find it nowhere near warranting of the abysmal reputation it has, people who are insistent on defending the album as at the very least not ''that'' bad, and people who respect it solely for the creative risk Logic took in trying something different.

** The revelation that he didn't actually retire has elicited extremely mixed opinions from fans. Some people shrugged it off, since rappers alluding to retirement but making returns soon after is nothing new. Others felt a bit bothered but believed that he truly wanted to settle down yet couldn't stay away from music, and thus gave him the benefit of the doubt. On the flip side, many also think that it was pointless for him to make such a big deal out of his retirement if it wasn't going to stick, with some even going as far as claiming that the impact ''No Pressure'' had made completely went down the drain as a result, making the entire thing seem unnecessary at best and like a publicity stunt at worst. Time will only tell if an actual explanation is ever given.

* EndingFatigue: ''Everybody'' indulges quite a bit.
** Instead of isolating skits in their own tracks a la ''TITS'', this album makes the decision to integrate them as part of existing tracks, which can turn them into easily-skippable extended outros for songs.
** If it's not skits, it's long-form speeches by Logic at the end of tracks like "Take It Back" and "Anziety" that border on {{Author Filibuster}}s in just how overbearing the communication of the album's messages gets.

*** The intro to ''Under Pressure'' gets it the most:

** His mentions of his since-ex-wife Jessica Andrea on ''Everybody'' ("Black [=SpiderMan=]") and ''Bobby Tarantino 2'' ("Overnight") -- even getting her painted on the covers of both, taking up a considerable portion of the latter's cover -- got hit with this ''hard'' when they divorced. To add insult to injury, he then had to perform the songs live, and fan recordings show he either doesn't finish saying the line or has to uncomfortably change the tense ("I ''was'' married, ho!").

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: “1-800” increased calls to the Suicide Hotline exponentially, possibly saving thousands of lives. Logic performed it at the 2018 Grammys and gathered suicide survivors onstage with him. Also worth noting he went on right after the In Memoriam...specifically, the final shot of [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington.]]

** Once ''Everybody'' made a central theme of Logic being mixed-race, [[NeverLiveItDown he pretty much became "the biracial guy" in hip-hop communities overnight]], with many poking fun at how frequently he talked about it on the album. [[MemeAcknowledgement Even Logic hopped on the meme and lampooned it]] throughout ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind''.

*** ''[=AfricAryaN=]'', the album's original title, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way upon initial announcement from how heavy-handed its communication of the whole "humanity being interconnected" concept was.
*** Logic and co.'s whole hyping-up of the album's story as brilliant and ingenious on Logic's behalf in the lead-up to its release can get deflated with the realization that said concept is lifted pretty liberally (albeit with permission) from an existing short story, Andy Weir's "The Egg".
*** Even then, the concept itself can still be quite ridiculous: a man struck and killed by a car is given an objective from God to reincarnate as every human being that has ever existed in order to move on to the afterlife. We know God's about making people work for their salvation, but ''damn''.

*** Also, the protagonist in question has a name that's pronounced "aah-dum". You'd be forgiven for assuming it's spelled like the Biblical character Adam, which is on-the-nose enough for some, but nope -- it's Atom, like the unit of matter. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude What.]]

*** The impact of "1-800" being retroactively weakened with several lyrics Logic put out since that many have criticized as trivializing the same subject of suicide he wanted to spread awareness for. Aside from his reference of suicide doors and being "too alive" on "Keanu Reeves" and his "1-800, then I kill the pussy, who can relate?" line from French Montana's "Twisted", Juicy J ends "Ink Blot" -- which is ''three tracks prior'' to "1-800" -- by telling the listener repeatedly to kill themselves.

*** Although Logic is a big fan of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' (even getting to cameo AsHimself in an episode), the reputation the show has for its fanbase has seemed to amplify the narm people get out of seeing it referenced. Therefore, when the mixtape starts with ''an entire skit featuring the two characters singing Logic's praises '''with Justin Roiland personally recruited to voice them''''', this response was inevitable.
*** The mixtape also ends with the generally-regarded-as-phoned-in "Everyday", a collaboration with Marshmello [[UnexpectedCharacter of all people]], with a famous line in the chorus seeing Logic singing "La-la-la-la-la-la" for nothing but filling space, it seems.
** His verse on Royce da 5'9"'s remix of "Caterpillar", with which he takes up most of his time unironically complaining about the biracial situation, with it coming out of nowhere and leading into an excruciatingly in-depth tangent.
** ''Supermarket'' contains some routinely ridiculed lyrics, including a shoehorned reference to Music/{{Radiohead}} ("I feel like Thom, I feel like I'm a fucking creep") and the impossible-to-take-seriously line, "Get litty, get gritty; [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez, get schwifty!]]"

*** "Homicide" got heat from those disillusioned with the borderline-fanatical support of "fast rap"/"real hip-hop" as opposed to "mumble rap" jokingly treating Logic and featured artist Music/{{Eminem}} as a DreamTeam, and for the song's intro skit between Logic and his dad:

*** The section of "clickbait" wherein he hits back against people calling him homophobic, which ends with him saying, "I’d suck a dick just to prove it ain’t that way." While it's formatted in the song so that people who quote that and mock him for it are actually falling for his controversy bait, there's no denying it's still ridiculous.

*** On "Pardon My Ego", the same Logic that made "1-800" says that Music/KidCudi and Music/KanyeWest make him wish he was "crazy" for their heightened levels of creativity and genius as if they aren't optional silver linings of dire mental illnesses. For good measure, a couple of lines later he offers one of hip-hop's sparing requests for a rapper's haters to suck his ''penis'' instead of his dick.

*** "Don't Be Afraid to Be Different". Even before pressing play, the irony of such a song title appearing on a highly commercial-sounding trap album was not lost on many, but then Creator/WillSmith's feature somehow raises the album's ''Fortnite'' reference total to two with his mention of the [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Carlton]] dance being an in-game taunt. The song also contains Logic saying "I don't give a damn 'bout lyrics" (right after a random Creator/DrSeuss bar, no less). While it was in the context of appreciating the vibe and energy of the track over the lyricism, it was pretty inevitable for the line to be shared ''en masse'' on the Internet among people who essentially agreed with him or compared the lyric to the ''Under Pressure'' intro lyrics in HarsherInHindsight above to a "HowTheMightyHaveFallen" effect.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''No Pressure'' is considered by critics and fans as being not only a ''massive'' improvement to ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'', but his best album since ''Under Pressure'', as he greatly emphasized returning to the basics that got him this far to begin with.

*** Also, the protagonist in question has a name that's pronounced "aah-dum". You'd be forgiven for assuming it's spelled like the Biblical character, which is on-the-nose enough for some, but nope -- it's Atom, like the unit of matter. [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude What.]]

*** Logic's revelation in 2022 that [[ParodyRetcon the entire album was reportedly meant as a satirical social experiment]], made to be deliberately controversial in order to get people talking, as well as his further statement that due it being his biggest album numbers-wise, the experiment was a success and he "won". Both his claims and his attitude about them did little to sway those not in favor of the album for all of the reasons that {{Parody Retcon}}s typically fail to go over well, but of additional note was his misspelling the word "satirical" as "satyrical", which got people talking all on its own.

* WereStillRelevantDammit: A common criticism of his later work is that Logic constantly brings up references to very-contemporary trends and memes, some of which has long been dead when he referenced them on his songs.

** In general terms, one of the more formidable fanbase polarizations stems from whether Logic's less serious turn-up music should be given as much time of day as his conscious, lyrical music.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Logic got some flak around the mid-2010s, when he first began putting out albums, as many believed that several of his songs so closely resembled songs from other rappers that it bordered on plagiarism. Popular examples were "Metropolis" lifting the exact drum sample of Music/KendrickLamar's "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst", "Contact" having tribal drums quite analogous to Music/KanyeWest's "Amazing", the first part of "City of Stars" the same type of beat as West's "Flashing Lights", "Stainless" having similar instrumentation to Music/TravisScott's "Backyard", and "I Am the Greatest" flipping a sample in a similar way as Oddisee's "Tangible Dream".

** The revelation that he didn't actually retire has elicited extremely mixed opinions from fans. Some people shrugged it off, since rappers alluding to retirement is nothing new, while others felt a bit bothered, but believed that he truly wanted to settle down yet couldn't stay away from music, and thus gave him the benefit of the doubt. On the flip side, many also think that it was pointless for him to make such a big deal out of it if it wasn't going to stick, with some even going as far as claiming the impact ''No Pressure'' had made completely went down the drain as a result, making the entire thing seem unnecessary at best and like a publicity stunt at worst. Time will only tell if an actual explanation is ever given.

** Instead of isolating skits in their own tracks a la ''TITS'', this album makes the decision to integrate them as part of existing tracks, which can make for easily-skippable extended outros for songs that may have had genuine quality going for them.

** His mentions of his wife Jessica Andrea on ''Everybody'' ("Black [=SpiderMan=]") and ''Bobby Tarantino 2'' ("Overnight") -- even getting her painted on the covers of both, taking up a considerable portion of the latter's cover -- got hit with this ''hard'' when they divorced. To add insult to injury, he then had to perform the songs live, and fan recordings show he either doesn't finish saying the line or has to uncomfortably change the tense ("I ''was'' married, ho!").

*** The section of "clickbait" wherein he hits back against people calling him homophobic, which ends with him saying "I’d suck a dick just to prove it ain’t that way." While it's formatted in the song so that people who quote that and mock him for it are actually falling for his controversy bait, there's no denying it's still ridiculous.

** The revelation that he didn't actually retire has elicited extremely mixed opinions from fans. Some people shrugged it off, since rappers alluding to retirement is nothing new, while others felt a bit bothered, but believed that he truly wanted to settle down yet couldn't stay away from music, and thus gave him the benefit of the doubt. On the flip side, many also think that it was pointless for him to make such a big deal out of it if it wasn't going to stick, with some even going as far as claiming the impact ''No Pressure'' had made completely went down the drain as a result, making the entire thing seem unnecessary at best and a publicity stunt at worst. Time will only tell if an actual explanation is ever given.

** The revelation that he didn't actually retire has elicited extremely mixed opinions. Some people shrugged it off, since rappers alluding to retirement is nothing new, while others felt a bit bothered, but believed that he truly wanted to settle down yet couldn't stay away from music, and thus gave him the benefit of the doubt. On the flip side, many also think that it was pointless for him to make such a big deal out of it if it wasn't going to stick, with some even going as far as claiming the impact ''No Pressure'' had made completely went down the drain as a result, making the entire thing seem unnecessary at best and a publicity stunt at worst. Time will only tell if an actual explanation is ever given.

** The revelation that he didn't actually retire has elicited extremely mixed opinions. Some people shrugged it off, since rappers alluding to retirement is nothing new, while others felt a bit bothered, but believed that he truly wanted to settle down yet couldn't stay away from music, and thus gave him the benefit of the doubt. On the flip side, many also think that it was pointless for him to make such a big deal out of it if it wasn't going to stick, with some even going as far as claiming all of the impact ''No Pressure'' had made completely went down the drain as a result, making the entire thing seem unnecessary at best and a publicity stunt at worst. Time will only tell if an actual explanation is ever given.