Robert Bryson Hall: Poem Analysis

Robert Bryson Hall, better known by his stage name ‘Logic’, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter born in Gaithersburg, Maryland on January 22nd,1990. Logic grew up surrounded by discrimination, being born a biracial child to a Caucasian mother and African American father, his childhood was filled with everyone telling him who and who he couldn’t be. Logic became interested in rap music at a young age, releasing his first official mixtape in December of 2010. In Logic’s most recent album ‘Everybody’, He preaches about themes most artists tend to stay away from, diving deep into the topics of Mental health, Racism, Equality, and many more controversial topics. Logic released a song off of that album titled ‘Black Spiderman’, in which he states, “This song is the celebration of unity and a world built upon division”(Mass …show more content…
During the first verse, Logic raps about, “ I ain't here to pick and choose/I ain't here to sing the blues/I'm just here to spread the clues/I'm just here to spread the news”(Everybody,2017) which is another way of him saying that his song isn’t meant to isolate any certain races, religions, sexual orientations, etc. It’s meant to callout the underlying facts and bring light to them. Later in the song, Logic goes on to say ” I just wanna be free/Not a slave to the stereotype/All alone in my room in the middle of the night/I don’t have the words but my stereo might/I don’t wanna be black/I don’t wanna be white/I just wanna be a man today”(Everybody,2017), People form a preconceived idea from the moment they meet someone, typically based off of stereotypes. What Logic means in this verse, is that he wants everyone to be separated from society’s preconceived labels and not a slave to their stereotypes, allowing people to create more subjective ideas rather than following the idea of the crowd, a large stepping stone to