Under Pressure (album)

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 For Under Pressure, Logic drew inspiration from a variety of sources, ranging from Quentin Tarantino films to the music of hip-hop artists and groups such as Kanye West, Outkast, and A Tribe Called Quest.

While Under Pressure's development spanned several years, it was recorded in roughly two weeks. [13] Recording locations included No I.D.'s studio and Logic's home, both in Los Angeles, and hotel rooms where Logic stayed while touring. [14] No I.D. served as executive producer and exercised high-level oversight of the album, utilizing a loose management style that Logic compared to that of Quincy Jones. Although Logic found No I.D.'s advice and connections to be critical to Under Pressure's quality, he later clarified that "it was me and [Visionary Music Group producer] 6ix who created this entire album." [6] During the album's development, Logic regularly watched Quentin Tarantino films and listened to A Tribe Called Quest, Outkast and Red Hot Chili Peppers. [15] Other influences on the album include Kanye West's Late Registration and Graduation , Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Kendrick Lamar's song "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst". [9]

The first track to be composed was the nine-minute "Under Pressure", which Logic wrote and self-produced while on tour with Kid Cudi. After returning to the studio to work on the song in Pro Tools, an error caused a sample of Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It" to play over aggressive drums, which Logic decided to use as an opening half to "Under Pressure". Live instruments such as guitars and cellos were then added. The two-halves of the track came to represent "the duality of man", as Logic rapped from the perspectives of both his hip hop persona and his everyday identity as well as those of his sister and his father. The resultant song would "set the tone for the rest of the album", according to Logic. [9]

Opening track "Intro" was initially based on a sample from the song "Aeroplane (Reprise)" by Wee, which Logic and 6ix had heard in Kanye West's "Bound 2". However, technical issues forced them to interpolate the sample. Work on track two, "Soul Food", began when Logic found the song's instrumental hosted on SoundCloud by rapper and producer Alkebulan. Logic obtained permission to use the track and polished it with his team. After they were unable to clear or interpolate a key sample, DJ Khalil was recruited to recreate it. The song's second half consists of production from 6ix which had been recorded a year before the rest of the track. "Intro" and "Soul Food" were placed together at the beginning of the album to create a jolting transition from a "beautiful and musical and melodic" song to "six minutes of raw lyricism". [9]

For "Buried Alive", Logic selected one of 20 instrumentals given to him by Dun Deal, adding backing vocals recorded by Big Lenbo as well as additional drums. DJ Dahi provided several potential instrumentals for "Never Enough", and the "skeleton beat" Logic selected was built with interpolations of "So Fresh, So Clean" performed by Outkast and "Pursuit of Happiness" performed by Kid Cudi. "Growing Pains III", the third installment of Logic's "Growing Pains" trilogy, was produced by TDE's Tae Beast and 6ix. In the song, Logic speaks on his early life and the difficulties he experienced while growing up in his household. "Metropolis", a Rob Knox and Logic co-production, features an interpolation of Bill Withers' "Use Me" designed to add "thump" to the original song's drumming. "Nikki" samples Jeff Beck's "Love Is Green". The name "Nikki" is referenced in previous songs on the album, personified as a very close female until it is revealed that Nikki is an abbreviation for nicotine. [16] The title track is the first single for the album and is produced by Logic himself. The song samples Eazy-E's "Eazy-Duz-It" and Grant Green's "My One and Only Love". The 9-minute, two-part track is widely viewed as the centerpiece of the album by critics and fans alike. In the first part, Logic speaks on his success and his compulsion to give back to those who helped him build his career, while the second part is him lamenting losing touch with his family as a result of success and finding out how proud they are of him. The album's closer, "Till the End", was the last to be composed and recorded. Husband-and-wife team The Frontrunners and producers S1 and M-Phazes contributed to the song's instrumental. Upon hearing the mastered version of the album, Logic reportedly cried, as it proved to him that he had succeeded despite his troubled upbringing. [9]

Music and lyrics

Growing up there were guns in the house, my brothers were out selling crack. I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas, I never had a birthday.

– Logic [9]

The album's autobiographical lyrical content detail Logic's life. Logic backstage in Orlando on April 8 2014.jpg
The album's autobiographical lyrical content detail Logic's life.

Under Pressure details Logic's life story beginning with his childhood in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and he has described its content as "extremely, extremely dark". [4] Logic conceived "Gang Related" after watching Boyz n the Hood . Logic considered it to be "a gangster record" that subverts the glorification of violence common in hip hop by describing the criminal activities and corresponding violence that had surrounded him as a child, while showing that he chose a different lifestyle. After completing the first verse, he was blocked on the lyrics for ten days, until he thought to rap from the perspective of his brother who had dealt drugs in Logic's youth. His brother agreed to the idea and provided him with stories from the period. [9]

While on tour with Kid Cudi, Logic received numerous voicemail messages from his family, which he "transcribed damn near word for word" and converted into rhyming lyrics. As a fan of hip hop braggadocio, Logic was initially uneasy about the results, but he chose to push forward with the idea. "Never Enough" was written as an "ignorant" track with a hidden meaning: it discusses the pleasures of "money, bitches, drugs [and] partying" but declares them insufficient for living a fulfilling life. Logic wrote "Till the End" about his difficulty breaking into the mainstream. [9]

Promotion

Singles

The first single from the album, "Under Pressure", was released on September 15, 2014, [17] with a music video released on October 9, 2014. [18] The album's second single, "Buried Alive", was released on October 14, 2014. [19]

Other songs

The album's first promotional single, "Now", was released on April 8, 2014. [20] The album's second promotional single, "Alright", was released on April 23, 2014 and features a guest appearance from American rapper Big Sean. [21] The album's third promotional single, "Driving Ms. Daisy", was released on August 27, 2014. The song features a guest appearance from American rapper Childish Gambino. [22]

Performances

On November 12, 2014, Logic performed "I'm Gone" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , with The Roots as his backing band. [23]

Critical reception

Under Pressure
Logic Under Pressure 9.10.14.jpg
Studio album by
Logic
ReleasedOctober 21, 2014 (2014-10-21)
Recorded2013–2014
Studio
  • 4220
  • Logic House (Los Angeles)
Genre Hip hop
Length56:23
Label
Producer
Logic chronology
Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever
(2013)		Under Pressure
(2014)		 The Incredible True Story
(2015)
Deluxe edition cover
Logic - Under Pressure (Deluxe Edition).jpg
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [24]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [25]
Exclaim! 9/10 [26]
HipHopDX 4.5/5 [27]
RapReviews9/10 [28]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [29]
Sputnikmusic1.0/5 [30]
XXL 4/5 [31]

Under Pressure was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 72, based on eight reviews. [24]

Sheldon Pearce of HipHopDX found a lot of depth in the album's storytelling saying "There are a great many moments that make Under Pressure feel like a feature film about Logic's life, and when at its best, it is creating that sort of imagery." [27] AllMusic praised the production and Logic's storytelling throughout the album saying, "Under Pressure is an autobiographical and odds-beating debut that arrives more fully formed than expected." [25] Erin Lowers of Exclaim! said, "Under Pressure finds Logic breaking out as an all-star emcee, raising the bar higher than anyone could've predicted." [26] Clara Wang of RapReviews said, "When nostalgic old-timers lament the golden age of hip-hop, for those championing our current era, Under Pressure is the album to point to." [28]

Eric Diep of XXL was compelled by the lyricism throughout the album, concluding with "Filled with persistent rhymes about his grind, it's a final warning that he's not going anywhere. For Logic, alleviating the pressures of critical acclaim just got easier." [31] Christopher R. Weingarten of Rolling Stone said, "This album is all surface-level, free of sharp punch lines ("I been Hungary like Budapest") or metaphors that connect." [29] In a negative review, a staff reviewer from Sputnikmusic said "It's not a verbatim copy of Kendrick's work, but it's every bit the stylistic counterfeit, and while it, along with the other mentions above, could be seen as imitations done in reverence had they been released on a free mixtape, their use on an album is no doubt a calculated effort to profit off of the ideas and work of another who did it first, in an attempt to capitalize on the ignorance of those listeners who may not know better." He did, however, continue by saying, "Outside of these disgusting faults, Logic's album isn't a bad effort at all, with few truly dull moments and good production and rapping from front to back." [30]

Accolades

Under Pressure was listed at number 45 on Complex 's 50 best albums of 2014 [32] and number six on Vibe 's list of 46 best albums of the year. [33] HipHopDX ranked it among the top 25 albums of 2014. [34]

Commercial performance

Under Pressure debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 72,000 copies in its first week. [35] This became Logic's first US top-ten debut. [35] The album also debuted at number two on both the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and the US Top Rap Albums charts, respectively. [36] [37] In its second week, the album dropped to number 31 on the chart, selling an additional 12,000 copies. [38] As of October 2015, the album has sold 197,000 copies in the US. [39] On August 7, 2020, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over one million units in the United States. [40]

Track listing

Under Pressure track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Intro"
 6ix 3:02
2."Soul Food"
4:52
3."I'm Gone"
4:42
4."Gang Related"
6ix2:47
5."Buried Alive"
5:37
6."Bounce"
4:04
7."Growing Pains III"
4:06
8."Never Enough"
4:22
9."Metropolis"
  • Hall II
  • Robin Tadross
  • Rob Knox
  • Logic
4:55
10."Nikki"
  • Logic
  • 6ix
3:23
11."Under Pressure"
Logic9:19
12."Till the End"
  • Hall II
  • Griffin, Jr.
  • Landon
  • Diondria Thornton
  • Christopher Thornton
  • S1
  • M-Phazes
5:14
Total length:56:23
Deluxe edition (bonus tracks)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."Driving Ms. Daisy" (featuring Childish Gambino)
  • Logic
  • 6ix
4:00
14."Now"
3:33
15."Alright" (featuring Big Sean)
Tae Beast3:38
Total length:67:34

Notes

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [41]

Instrumentation

Technical

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Under Pressure
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [50] Silver60,000‡
United States (RIAA) [40] Platinum1,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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