Overall, Bobby has bars for days — and days — and as a consistent top to bottom play, YSIV has vibrant energy.
YSIV is a cloying album, which features Logic pointing at an amorphous idea of the past, but avoids adding anything artistically transformative to his worship of it.
This is Logic at his best: making music that makes him happy. His comfort zone is infectious. If YSIV doesn't sell you on Logic, nothing will.
Blemishes aside, YSIV is a wondrous body of work that succeeds largely because it puts Logic’s obsession with thematic content on the back burner.
In a way, with all its emphasis on over-achievement and a continuous supply of re-recounted autobiographical content, YSIV can be as mind-numbing as the mumble rap Logic rails against, but the proficiency and fervor are indisputable.
Though there’s a few overlong, bloated gestures here, the core of YSIV is a superstar making no-nonsense rap with an inspirational message.
Over some dusty boom-bap, the undoubtedly talented Logic spends just way too much time trying to forcibly cement his place in hip-hop history.
Logic is, as always, well-intentioned and likable on YSIV, but his music remains middle-of-the-road.
Haven't heard the album yet but I just came here to say that damn I thought it was anthony fantano on the cover.
This album is kind of a return to form. The intro was a bad way to start the album, I was turned off by the cheesy RattPack shit which was just voicemail of his fans (but nice Nujabes shoutout). The songs that followed were good but nothing special as well. I didn't get wowed until "Wu-Tang Forever". Jesus. But then we are subject to "Ordinary Day" which was corny as shit. "YSIV" is the other great song on this album and what I wanted on this album, the Mac Miller ... read more
I'll be honest, I actually quite enjoy some of the stuff on this album. YSIV shows him returning to his Young Sinatra roots; well by that the production just has a more boom-bap style; and while it doesn't transform the sound much or show a lot of artistic progression from that era it still succeeds at having some great production, nice flows, the occasional introspective verses and Legacy, one of my all-time favourite tracks from Logic. However, the album does suffer from being way too long ... read more
It's a step up from the last project but it could be better. I've recently listened to ys1 and holy crap is it much better than this fourth installment. Logic isn't nearly as hungry here as he was then which make sense considering the different stage of his career he's in now compared to then. Which probably means a new installment in this series probably wasn't a good idea.
1 | Thank You 7:10 feat. Lucy Rose & The RattPack | 59 |
2 | Everybody Dies 4:10 | 79 |
3 | The Return 4:12 | 79 |
4 | The Glorious Five 3:36 | 79 |
5 | One Day 3:18 feat. Ryan Tedder | 59 |
6 | Wu Tang Forever 8:07 | 75 |
7 | 100 Miles and Running 5:53 feat. Wale, John Lindahl | 78 |
8 | Ordinary Day 3:08 feat. Hailee Steinfeld | 66 |
9 | YSIV 6:09 | 81 |
10 | Street Dreams II 4:26 | 73 |
11 | The Adventures of Stoney Bob 4:20 | 69 |
12 | Legacy 5:51 | 75 |
13 | ICONIC 4:58 feat. Jaden Smith | 68 |
14 | Last Call 10:45 | 70 |