For this song I wanted to talk about the price of freedom. Some people are in bondage and don’t understand what it means to be free. Some go through life and embrace what ever cages life throws at them never truly understanding that they are in a cage until it is too late. Some people understand their cage but choose to stay in it until it is too late. The stories are based on two poisonous relationships but your cage can be anything you allow it to be. The lesson is to allow yourself freedom or you could live to regret you choice to be caged.

• Illogic (Source)

“She loves it” is a commentary on relationships that are not built on a strong foundation of two complete people. In being married to my beautiful wife for 11 years we have learned that we had to be complete in ourselves and love ourselves fully to love each other fully. When you have two people in a relationship that don’t know or love themselves they feed off of each others short comings and take pride in disaster. Until you are fulfilled as an individual you will never be fulfilled in a relationship with another person. This is from the perspective of the woman not being a fulfilled complete person and her inflicting that lack of fulfillment on any man she meets and how she loves to see him in the darkness with her. She can never have light in her life if she doesn’t choose it and does her best to pull other into her darkness.

-Illogic (Source)

Its hard to understand purpose and try to live it and walk in it. Sometimes doubt can creep in and make you wonder if what you are doing is really what you have been called to do. There are times when you just want to quit and give up. Things get so hard an you’re just looking for the exit so you can leave your problems and frustration behind. But I have learned that The problem with purpose is that you can’t escape it. You can try to ignore it but it will always be there staring you in the face. Some people make it their whole lives ignoring their purpose and some go though life never discovering it. Either way many times those people leave the regrets behind or an unfulfilled life. In the song I go from doubt to belief. I believe that I am called to do what I do. I believe that I was given the gift of song to help, guide, and lead and entertain the world and I do my best everyday to walk in that purpose. It’s not always easy. Sometimes you do want to find a way out but I know it is truly what I am called to do so I can’t escape it.

• Illogic (Source)

As a Black man in America it is well known that there are injustices all around me. Understanding that the relationship or lack there of between the black community and the police is the direct result of many of those injustices is not foreign to me. I wrote this verse before Trevon Martin was murdered though it was not by a police officer is was by someone who thought that they had authority to just gun down a black person and not receive punishment just as the police that gunned down the 5 people that I named in my verse. Something is wrong when I have to fear for the lives of my children being taken by those that have sworn to protect them.

• Illogic (Source)

This song was birthed out of feelings of neglect and betrayal by some people that I had considered friends. There are times when you have to stand up and say that you will not react to anything that is beneath you anymore and just live. At the time of writing the song I felt like is was me against the world and no one believed in me and my prosperity but me (and my wife). This was a time when I could have retreated into depression but I made the choice to press on and have faith in what I was called to do and not just in financial prosperity (“the Mortgage”). Wanting to prove my detractors wrong was also a motivating factor to ensure that I would progress as well.

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Have you ever been in a situation where you know its not gfor you but you just don’t know how to let it go? This song stems from past relationships with people in my life that I had to let go and forgive. Letting something go doesn’t always mean that it is irradiated from your life but the betrayal can burn the bridge to your heart or to your trust. Sometimes the bridge can be repaired and some time the bridge needs to be burned. Its up to you to decide which.

-Illogic (Source)

‘Beautiful Sunday’ is a commentary in how fragile and shot life is. When you look at life you have to see the beauty in it no matter how ugly things may get. Sunday is the first day of the week and a day of rest and reflection. So this song is a reflection of that reflection.

-Illogic (Source)

This song is an insight to the conversations that I have with myself in my own head about my life and the life around me. It is kind of a scattered account of a dream chaser stuck between responsibility and the disregarding of responsibility to spreads his wings but in the end understanding that the embracing of responsibility is whats drives him to become his dream. Also if you notice the rhyme pattern is a little unorthodox. It may sound like I am not rhyming hardly but if you listen close I rhyme every 8 bars instead of the typical 2 or 4 bars. It allows space for my thoughts to flow with more layers also giving leeway to more internal rhyme and extended word play.

-Illogic (From his website)

The concept behind “Neva Heard” stems from the thought of, what if no one has ever heard of me before? How would I want to present my skill with words and the depth of my writing? I am not under the impression that everyone has heard my music so I just wanted to spit some bars that display a touch of me with word play and skill.

-Illogic (From his website)