Vinyl Days

The project was first announced and teased on his social media on January 11, 2022. "Decades" and "Tetris" were released as the first two singles of the project on April 22.{{cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/music/logic-new-songs-decades-tetris-video|title=Logic Shares New Songs "Tetris" and "Decades"|work=Complex|date=April 22, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} Logic spoke out on social media about mistreatment by his label, Def Jam, detailing that they had messed up his release plans for the singles and subsequent music video.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/logic-slams-def-jam-single-release-plan-tetris-decades-1235062415/|title=Logic Slams Def Jam For 'F—ing Up' Single Release Plan: 'I Care About Music'|magazine=Billboard|date=April 22, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} He then announced the project would be slated for a June 2022 release. The album contains a lot of samples, hence Logic announcing that the project would be released once all the samples clear.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBd09U0alMo|title=Vinyl Days album dropping when the samples clear|work=Bobby's World on YouTube|date=January 16, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} On the Pep Talk Podcast prior to the album's release, Logic noted that Vinyl Days was created in a 12-day span and that the creative process was turned into a documentary to accompany the release. The album art can be characterized as a photo of Logic's son, Bobby, sitting on an office chair in the middle of a messy room riddled with various pop culture references. Some of the pop culture references on the album cover include a Back to the Future Part II hoverboard, the same type of drum machine that the revered J Dilla used (MPC 3000), a baby Groot from the film series Guardians of the Galaxy, a poster of Quentin Tarantino's ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a teaser poster for Kill Bill: Volume 3, an MF DOOM poster, Eazy-E's 1988 Eazy-Duz-It album, electric guitars, recording equipment, dozens of vinyl records, and a green road sign which previews the title of his next album College Park which he announced on numerous songs throughout the album such as "LaDonda", "Clouds", "Kickstyle", and "Sayonara".

Vinyl Days was released on June 17, 2022. Prior to the album's release, he released music videos for Breath Control,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsEZlyB3io|title=Logic - Breath Control|work=Bobby's World on YouTube|date=February 11, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} Clouds,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMwt8HzLu4|title=Logic - Clouds (without the features)|work=Bobby's World on YouTube|date=April 16, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} and Tetris{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPvqq3otdk|title=Logic - Tetris (Official Video)|work=Bobby's World on YouTube|date=April 21, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} respectively. In an interview with NPR after the album's release, Logic said "I chose Vinyl Days because we actually recorded the entire album in about 12 days, for a wild reason that I'll explain another time".{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106397886/logic-is-ready-to-do-things-his-way|title=Logic is ready to do things his way|work=NPR|date=June 22, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}}

A verse in the song, "LaDonda", revolving around music critic Anthony Fantano, who had given Logic negative reviews in the past, generated controversy and discussion online due to a portion of the verse in which Logic recounts, “I used to fantasize about murdering you, choking you to death and watching from your point of view ’til we got friendly”.{{Cite web |title=Logic: Vinyl Days |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/logic-vinyl-days/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}} Fantano, not having been alerted of the contents of the verse ahead of time, heard the line for the first time during a livestream, causing him to go on a rant. He stated that the line had made him feel “embarrassed”, further adding, “I feel overemphasized. There never should have been any reason Logic should hate me in the first place. Because I’m just reviewing albums. You’re just one of many guys whose albums I review negatively.”{{Cite web |date=2022-06-19 |title=Anthony Fantano stunned by Logic's massive shoutout on new album |url=https://www.dexerto.com/music/anthony-fantano-stunned-by-logics-massive-shoutout-on-new-album-1851029/ |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Dexerto |language=en}}

The album was released in the same week as projects by two high-profile hip-hop artists, Honestly, Nevermind by Drake and Khaza by Kevin Gates.{{cite web|url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kevin-gates-khaza-and-logics-vinyl-days-first-week-sales-projections-are-neck-and-neck-news.153766.html|title=Kevin Gates' "Khaza" & Logic's "Vinyl Days" First Week Sales Projections Are Neck & Neck|work=HotNewHipHop|date=June 18, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}}

On July 4th, over two weeks after the release of the album, Logic announced that he had signed to BMG{{Cite web |date=2022-07-04 |title=Multi-platinum rapper Logic signs to BMG |url=https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/multi-platinum-rapper-logic-signs-to-bmg/ |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Music Business Worldwide |language=en-US}} Speaking on signing with BMG, he stated “I’m just glad to move on to a place where I can be independent, and respected as an artist, and feel like I’m in control of my career.”

On July 16, Logic released a documentary that detailed the making of and inspirations for the album.{{Cite web |date=2022-07-16 |title=Logic Shares Documentary Detailing Making Of "Vinyl Days" & Final Days With Def Jam |url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/logic-shares-documentary-detailing-making-of-vinyl-days-and-final-days-with-def-jam-news.155126.html |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=HotNewHipHop |language=en}}

{{Music ratings

| title = Professional ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vinyl-days-mw0003721179|title=Vinyl Days Review by David Crone|date=June 17, 2022|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=June 17, 2022}}

| rev2 = HipHopDX

| rev2score = 3.5/5

| rev3 = Pitchfork

| rev3score = 6.4/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/logic-vinyl-days/|title=Logic: Vinyl Days Album Review|last=Brickner-Wood|first=Brady|website=Pitchfork|date=June 22, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}}

| rev4 = Riff Magazine

| rev4score = 6/10{{cite web|last=Hoffman|first=Tim|url=https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/logic-vinyl-days/|title=ALBUM REVIEW: Logic says adieu to Def Jam with 'Vinyl Days'|work=Riff Magazine|date=June 17, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}}

| rev5 = Atwood Magazine

| rev5score = 8/10{{cite web |title=Our Take: Logic Quickly Cuts His Retirement Short with the Poppin' 'Vinyl Days' |url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/lgvd-logic-vinyl-days-album-review/|last=Weiner|first=Josh|website=Atwood|date=July 6, 2022|access-date=July 21, 2022}}

}}

Vinyl Days received generally positive reviews from music critics. Brady Brickner-Wood from Pitchfork gave a mixed review saying, "Both impressive and tiring, Logic's seventh studio album stuffs 30 tracks' worth of throwback beats and technical rapping into overbearing conceptual frameworks." Tim Hoffman from Riff Magazine also gave a positive review stating, "for what it's worth, it's nice to have an energetic and passionate presence like Logic's return." Riley Wallace from HipHopDX gave another positive review stating, "Conceptually, the sequencing and pace of the LP is stellar; it sounds excellent, the features show up and show out and the skits, though maybe overkill, do help give things a ’90s college radio mixtape feel (complete with Funk Flex as a de facto host and hype man)." David Crone from AllMusic stated that "With an end to producing a smaller, more substantive set of ideas, the Vinyl Days sessions might have produced another five-star effort in Logic’s catalog; though all too brief, these flashes of rap’s golden era are colored in all the right hues. Vinyl Days isn’t the second coming of Young Sinatra, but it may mark the start of a compelling new dawn for the MC."{{cite web|last=Crone|first=David|title=Vinyl Days Review by David Crone|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vinyl-days-mw0003721179/|website=AllMusic |access-date= June 17, 2022}}

Vinyl Days was expected to debut on the Billboard 200 with projected sales of 35,000 to 45,000 units.{{cite web|url=https://hiphop24x7.com/news/projected-first-week-sales-logic-vinyl-days-album/|title=The Projected First Week Sales Of Logic's "Vinyl Days" Album|publisher=HH24x7|date=June 19, 2022|access-date=June 22, 2022}} Vinyl Days debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 chart. This became Logic's eighth US top 20 debut.

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 71:58

| title1 = Danger

| writer1 = {{hlist|Sir Robert Bryson Hall II|Arjun Ivatury|David Anthony Guy|Homer Steinweiss|Leon Michels|Nick Movshon|Thomas Brenneck}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic}}

| length1 = 0:44

| title2 = Tetris

| writer2 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Lester Abrams}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic}}

| length2 = 2:04

| title3 = In My Lifetime

| note3 = featuring Action Bronson

| writer3 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ariyan Arslani|Kourosh Yaghmaei}}

| extra3 = Logic

| length3 = 1:48

| title4 = Decades

| writer4 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Donte Perkins|James H. Marshall|Kyle Metcalfe|Tyler Mathew Carl Williams}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|6ix|PSTMN|T-Minus|Tae Beast}}

| length4 = 2:28

| title5 = JJ Abrahams

| note5 =

| writer5 = {{hlist|Hall II|Koal Harrison}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Logic|The Kount}}

| length5 = 0:19

| title6 = BlackWhiteBoy

| note6 =

| writer6 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Lakhari Theodore Boyd}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|6ix|Tedd Boyd}}

| length6 = 3:01

| title7 = Quasi

| writer7 = {{hlist|Hall II|Tom Nehls}}

| extra7 = Logic

| length7 = 1:45

| title8 = Bleed It

| writer8 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Adam Keefe Horovitz|Adam Nathaniel Yauch|Barbara Patkova|Dan Smith|Jack Yglesias|Jake Ferguson|Malcolm Catto|Michael Louis Diamond|Raven Bush}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic}}

| length8 = 2:31

| title9 = LaDonda

| writer9 = {{hlist|Hall II|Regional Garland}}

| extra9 = Logic

| length9 = 2:14

| title10 = Aaron Judge

| writer10 = {{hlist|Hall II|Mario Luciano}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Logic|Mario Luciano}}

| length10 = 0:23

| title11 = Clouds

| note11 = featuring Langston Bristol and Currensy

| writer11 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Kyle Metcalfe|Shante Scott Franklin}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic|PSTMN}}

| length11 = 2:53

| title12 = Michael Rap

| writer12 = {{hlist|Hall II|Koal Harrison|Steve Wyreman}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Logic|Steve Wyreman|The Kount}}

| length12 = 0:45

| title13 = Therapy Music

| note13 = featuring Russ

| writer13 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Benny Maupin|Bill Summers|Blackbird McKnight|Michael Clark|Paul Jackson|Russell Vitale}}

| extra13 = 6ix

| length13 = 4:22

| title14 = Tony Revolori

| writer14 = {{hlist|Hall II|Mario Luciano}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|Logic|Mario Luciano}}

| length14 = 1:30

| title15 = Rogue One

| writer15 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Clayton Gunnels|Clyde Stubblefield|Darryl Jamison|Frank Waddy|James Brown|Johnny Griggs|Phelps "Catfish" Collins|Robert McCollough|William Collins}}

| extra15 = 6ix

| length15 = 1:34

| title16 = Breath Control

| writer16 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Cameron Thomaz|Nicholas Smith|Ronald LaTour}}

| extra16 = 6ix

| note16 = featuring Wiz Khalifa

| length16 = 2:27

| title17 = NEMS

| writer17 = {{hlist|Hall II|Koal Harrison|Steve Wyreman}}

| extra17 = {{hlist|Logic|Steve Wyreman|The Kount}}

| length17 = 0:47

| title18 = Nardwuar

| writer18 = {{hlist|Hall II|John Ruskin|Michael Parkinson}}

| extra18 = Logic

| note18 = featuring Doc D

| length18 = 1:26

| title19 = Kickstyle

| writer19 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Christopher Castro|James Branch|Jan Weissenfeldt|Jordan Thornton|Leon Ressalam}}

| extra19 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic}}

| note19 = featuring IamJMARS, Big Lenbo and C Dot Castro

| length19 = 2:50

| title20 = EarlyBird

| writer20 = {{hlist|Hall II|Mario Luciano|Donte Perkins}}

| extra20 = {{hlist|Logic|Mario Luciano|Tae Beast}}

| length20 = 1:07

| title21 = Ten Years

| note21 = featuring Royce da 5'9

| writer21 = {{hlist|Hall II|Joseph Bellah|Ryan Montgomery|Vignesh Vishwanathan}}

| extra21 = {{hlist|JRB|Vig}}

| length21 = 3:01

| title22 = Porta One

| note22 = featuring RZA

| writer22 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|David Axelrod|Robert Diggs}}

| extra22 = 6ix

| length22 = 2:06

| title23 = NeedleDrop

| writer23 = {{hlist|Hall II|Koal Harrison|Mario Luciano}}

| extra23 = {{hlist|Logic|Mario Luciano|The Kount}}

| length23 = 1:26

| title24 = Introducing Nezi

| note24 = featuring Nezi Momodu

| writer24 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Khalil Abdul-Rahman|Nezi Momodu}}

| extra24 = {{hlist|6ix|DJ Khalil}}

| length24 = 2:47

| title25 = Orville

| note25 = featuring Like, Blu and Exile

| writer25 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Aleksander Manfredi|Gabriel Stevenson|Gilbert O'Sullivan|John Barnes III}}

| extra25 = 6ix

| length25 = 3:22

| title26 = Carnival

| note26 = featuring AZ

| writer26 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Anthony Cruz|Kyle Metcalfe|Lester Abrams}}

| extra26 = {{hlist|6ix|PSTMN}}

| length26 = 2:34

| title27 = Lena's Insight

| writer27 = {{hlist|Hall II|Christopher Pegram|Mario Luciano|Vignesh Vishwanathan}}

| extra27 = {{hlist|ALFIii|Logic|Mario Luciano|Vig}}

| length27 = 0:58

| title28 = Vinyl Days

| note28 = featuring DJ Premier

| writer28 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Charles Bernstein|Chris Martin}}

| extra28 = 6ix

| length28 = 4:42

| title29 = I Guess I Love It

| note29 = featuring the Game

| writer29 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|Allen Toussaint|Jayceon Taylor|Tom Nehls}}

| extra29 = {{hlist|6ix|Logic}}

| length29 = 3:48

| title30 = Sayonara

| writer30 = {{hlist|Hall II|Ivatury|James Reese|Marlene King}}

| extra30 = 6ix

| length30 = 10:03

}}

• "In My Lifetime" and "I Guess I Love It" are stylized in sentence case.
• "BlackWhiteBoy" is stylized in all caps.

• "Danger" features uncredited vocals from Morgan Freeman.
• "JJ Abrahams" features uncredited vocals from J. J. Abrams.
• "Aaron Judge" features uncredited vocals from Aaron Judge.
• "Michael Rap" features uncredited vocals from Michael Rapaport.
• "Tony Revolori" features uncredited vocals from Tony Revolori.
• "NEMS" features uncredited vocals from Gorilla Nems.
• "Nardwuar" features uncredited vocals from Nardwuar.
• "EarlyBird" features uncredited vocals from Earl Sweatshirt and Rainn Wilson.
• "NeedleDrop" features uncredited vocals from Anthony Fantano.
• "Lena's Insight" features uncredited vocals from Lena Waithe.
• "Sayonara" features an uncredited outro from Eothen "Egon" Alapatt.

• "Danger" contains a sample of Charles Bradley's "Black Velvet".
• "Quasi" contains a sample of Tom Nehl's "Sky Paintings".
• "Bleed It" contains samples of Beastie Boys' "Ch-Check It Out" and The Heliocentrics's "Venom".
• "LaDonda" contains a sample of Regional Garland's "Fifteen Ain't Young No More".
• "Rogue One" contains a sample of The J.B.'s "The Grunt".
• "Nardwuar" contains a sample of Strictly from Hunger's "Trying to Make the Best".
• "Kickstyle" contains samples of Oneness of Juju's "Introduction" and "Contradiction" and J.J. Whitefield's "Shir-Khan".
• "Porta One" contains a sample of David Axelrod's "Terri's Tune".
• "Vinyl Days" contains a sample of Charles Bernstein's "Dinner Source".
• "I Guess I Love It" contains a sample of Tom Nehl's "Clean Air".

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