[VIDEO BELOW, AT DINNER WHEN I WAS ASKED TO DEFEND THESE COMMENTS...]

Is my problem with Logic illogical? It’s about staying true. No, not as opposed to telling lies. Truth also means direction. Consistency.

Logic has been one of Drispy’s favorite rappers ever since I heard his “Young Sinatra: Undeniable” mixtape and his debut album “Under Pressure” in 2014. Those projects were masterpieces—yes, I think they fit all dictionary and personal definitions of that term. They led to his sophomore project “The Incredible True Story” and placed him deep within rap’s elite, in Dripsy’s hopefully learned opinion.

However, many rap critics and Hip-Hop fans alike don't concur with Dripsy's assessment. While experts rightly have nailed the down tempo stuff, casual fans, especially the trap community, see his music as corny (whatever that means) and derivative (ah, now that’s a term we can chew on) because he benevolently praises…bites off of/mimics?... MCs such as Drake, Kendrick, and J Cole.

Another negative critique of Logic springs from his "Everybody" album, where some reviewers such as Andrew Gretchko more delicately present the harsher view of the casual fan: that Logic harps on being bi-racial in 80% of his songs. That is not true empirically (by the way Dripsy isn’t bi-racial... I’m plain ole light-skinned). And even Gretchko relates what creators like Logic, like Dripsy carry in our bone marrow: we sing/write/paint/create what we know, what gives us joy and pain. Growing up the way he did in Maryland, with the parents God gave him and he didn’t choose, and struggle he had to endure, is his defining condition. So, 80%? Naw son. But it is theme that works fine as a foundation. Nevertheless, we need to see him grow as an artist. You grow by remaining true and build around that. Grow, or become a cliché, irrelevant.

Which brings us to the ultimate controversy: the conflict between his last two projects: "YSIV" and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."

Let’s take YSIV first. I disagree with the critics here. YSIV was a very well made album that sounded drastically different than most of the other modern music being made by his peers. Creative, daring…different. That’s the direction Dripsy urges Logic to take and blaze for others. The YSIV album keeps him in rap’s elite. Stamp, moe, as the folk say south of me in D.C.

Nevertheless, COADM fed into all of his haters’ criticism and gave casual fans more of a reason to consider him irrelevant; it was a perfect example why following popular rap trends is not the most resourceful plan of action. Yes, it’s derivative. Yes, the beats, the bridges, the effect are cliché.

And yes, it makes Logic seem like the near “white boy” adopter, promoting pop-songey positivity that some of the more ignorant critics and fans heap on him. Accordingly, this brand of bogus haters now has cover from the legit critics, who use the COADM album to argue that his peers such as Joeybada$$, J.I.D, Joyner Lucas, and Denzel Curry have surpassed him on the rap plateau.

So is it illogical to say that Logic has a consistency problem? No. One bad apple album doesn’t ruin the whole dang display in the Harris Teeter...

"...but when folk are thinking you are corny because of the way you look, your themes and musicality of your work, they will point to that nasty apple despite the luscious ones all around it."

Dripsy believes he is numero tres behind Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. Bite that apple. He is one of the most lyrical and versatile rappers of this generation and he will go down as a top 20 in Hip-Hopstory when his legacy is complete. He just has to stay true. Stay consistent. Nothing illogical about that…