Sayonara (Clean) - Logic

Lyrics by：Sir Robert Bryson Hall II/Arjun Ivatury/James Reese/Marlene King

Composed by：Sir Robert Bryson Hall II/Arjun Ivatury/James Reese/Marlene King

Ayo for real look let me just say this

I wanna say I love Def Jam Def Jam changed my f**kin' life

There's definitely some f**kboys in that building

Some suits wearing ties and s**t

But it's some real good-a*s f**kin' people man

Steve Bartels Faisel Jeff

F**kin' Justin Duran Dave Bell

Chris Atlas David Amaya

I could f**kin' go on bro Lory Peter Kate and Gabe

We gon' get into the rest later man but I f**kin' love y'all

Let's get to this s**t here we go

This my Friday Night Lights track nineteen

From major to independent as sightseen my Ultralight Beam

I ain't finna go into the discrepancies of my deal

Like the millions that y'all owe me I gotta audit y'all for real

But you changed my life that's my word

Took a young kid out of Gaithersburg and you'll never know

What it means for a kid in his teens and his entire team

To go from open mics to actually livin' they dreams

This a "Thank you" to the people in the building

For helping me build the empire that I'm still building

Diddy said a rapper only gets five years we double that

Independent now won't double back

I rep the BMG yeah I'm the Big Money Getter

F**k the pop s**t remember Logic as a spitter

Just a kid havin' fun when I step to the mic

That's why I never understood the hate I get when I write

Back when posting new songs on Internet rap forums

All the way to talkin' s**t the first night I sold out The Forum

But they hated Jesus homie

I ain't comparing I'm just reasoning homie

I'm just tryna set an example

I went pop and made millions now all I do is chop samples

Egon's finest peanuts after like I was Linus

Followed by that College Park next that's the line-up

First album the EP was No I.D

Last album the executive producer is me I'm set free

Sayonara

So the crazy s**t is right like when we was shopping deals

Mike Mike Caren over at Atlantic

He offered me a deal for thirty grand

I was like "f**k no" hahaha

Shoutout Mike though

Some independent label offered us one-point-five

And we was like "Nah"

But Def Jam hit me up you know what I'm saying

Noah pressed my A&R for ten f**king years bro

He linked me with No I.D. man

And I was like "Yo No I.D.

That's Ye that's Jay that's Common homie

How could we not"

And we signed a deal we inked that s**t up bro

Maurice Frazier Lisa Bronson Jason Peerless

F**kin' Liza Nakeisha Mario Ryan

Cordon I could go on

Lynn Gonzalez yo Lynn Gonzalez

Ian you motherf**ker with the samples

Ian be listening to s**t that ain't even a sample

He's like "This s**t's a sample"

I be like "Ian shut the f**k up bro"

I love y'all Antoinette Donna Jamie Stephanie

Jenny Paul all you motherf**kers know who y'all at

And legal man album delivery I f**kin' love y'all

Everybody in f**kin' A&R admin samples

PR marketing the execs f**kin' Barry White's old a*s

That motherf**ker took care of me man he signed me

I remember seeing a Britney Spears f**kin' plaque

She went f**king diamond

I asked Chris Zarou my manager at VMG

I said "What the f**k is diamond"

He said "Bro ten times platinum"

I'll never forget I said never bro"

Never I'm not gonna go diamond"

"1-800" almost diamond what up

Haha billions of streams

Everybody in sales and commerce DDC Marcus

Scott Bobby f**kin' Theta Mac Eric Fred Thomas

All y'all sorry for the first name basis but I f**k with y'all

Everybody at Radio man

First of all

Let me start this s**t off with Noah Sheer Gaithersburg's own

We went to f**kin' Summit Hall Elementary School bro

I mean you like ninety years older than me but it's all good

Nicky Farag steppin' up in the ranks I love you shawty

Lory LaMattina Keith Rothschild f**kin' Rick Sackheim the God

Mundo Garcia boy

Get a bigger pair of pants your s**t look like it's painted on

Sonny D my f**kin' brother Britney Scott Chico EP

Like Rodney Rosie Rozzy Brian International Mike Alexander

Marissa Mira Art

Ty that's all I gotta say Ty Lindsey that's it

Finance f**kin' finance Jen Hersh

Melissa Bernal I love y'all

Tour Marketing Albert Albert Cook

Shervah Edwards video oh Millie gotta love Millie

Millie was always on the on the sets like

"Alright make sure the Red Bull can is exactly in front of the shot"

I was like "Millie get the f**k out of here"

Remy Carolyn Yolanda Nadeen

And of course of course

Deborah at the sample team I f**kin' love you Deborah

I don't even gotta say your full name you are a goddess

Nicole Pastine

And of course the homie Xavier

Rappin' is my passion I love y'all man look

This what I'ma say about Def Jam look man

We had some ups and downs you know what I'm saying

My first album I was gettin' sued by some f**kboy

And y'all was tryna get me to change my name and s**t

I spent my whole f**kin' career this who I was

Y'all tryna get me to change my name

Y'all wasn't tryna put out my album

So we did the "While You Wait" s**t

We went on tour you know what I'm saying

But eventually s**t worked out

But even with that you motherf**kers

You know you under shipped me and s**t

And that's what I'll say

I don't I really wholeheartedly don't believe

That was none of the people I just named either man

Everybody I f**k with y'all I rock with y'all

Any other f**kboys behind the scenes y'all could suck a d**k

Eat my whole f**kin' ballsack man

This industry is f**ked up

The wildest s**t is I'ma say this man

This whole industry is musical chairs yo

Cats like Steve Bartels Faisel Jeff Harleston man

They they the real ones you know what I mean

But like motherf**kers be so in-and-out

That's why I didn't stay with Def Jam

I went to Def Jam after ten years on the label

Because I owed them that

I was like "Okay so what's up

We signing another deal"

They ain't even get back to me in time

So I went somewhere else

And I don't know who butthurt or what

I could give a f**k man

All I'ma say is I love y'all who rock with me

I love y'all who take care of me

I love y'all who f**kin' drove me from New York to Boston to do

Radio interviews and s**t man

Appreciate y'all

It's been a it's been a d**e time on this major label s**t

You know what I'm saying

I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars for y'all hahaha

And uhh we've had some good memories

I love you I appreciate you

My only regret is I ain't get to really f**k with Tunji like that

We doin' this last album you know what I'm sayin'

But Tunji man that's the God he's here for the culture

Yo man you're a f**kin' G bro

Much love to Lucian

I appreciate all the f**kin' millions of dollars

That you gave me to make these records hahaha

Independent s**t next

VMG VMG Bobby Boy

Sayonara

Logic as a rapper is an anomaly a person who is out of time

Living in the present you know rooted in the past

But a traditionalist who believes in the future

Who believes in what hip-hop was and can still be

So we're here in this modern time

Thinking about and listening to the development of hip-hop

And it's future all at once

I think that a lot of people in the modern sense of the word

Get caught up in how fleeting time is

And they believe that what's happening right in front of them

Is the most immediate thing and it's the most meaningful thing

And they have to engage what's happening in the moment

Because the moment's gonna be gone and then they're not gonna care

Or no one else around them is gonna care

And I think we forget that great experiences in the in humanity

Go on for decades centuries sometimes millennia

Before anybody even really knows how to make sense of them

And so in the same way that the monks in the dark ages

Were keeping records and saving books

You know it is important for us

To really make sense of one of Americas great folk musics

And that's hip-hop

And there's very few people who care enough

To actually keep the form going while trying to push it forwards

Logic's one of those dudes

And the reason Madlib and I decided

That we wanted to work with him

Is because he came through

With a true sincerity and appreciation for the form

And for all of the people who make it

And like a true understanding of craft and like

Who's doing what

And how their technique is either important relevant

Something that needs to be preserved or not

And I remind myself that even though hip-hop seems to me

In my mid forties to be an old thing

Because it's been around since the early '70s

It's actually just in its infancy

And if it's not for people like Logic trying to keep this tradition alive

We're not really gonna know even shortly after

What's supposed to come

This hopefully is an art form that's gonna outlast

All these art forms that preceded it and formed it

And we're only gonna know that

If people who truly have the passion belief

And the proficiency the musical acumen

To hold the form hold it dear

And at the same time

Not be so reverent to it and push it forward

Are there to show us the way

So hopefully he's one of these dudes I have that belief