Name: Logic's Mom Called Him The N Word
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Logic's Mom Called Him The N Word' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-24. Transcript available.

You're from Rockville, Maryland?
Born in Rockville, raised in Gaithersburg, but same shit.
Do you think that becoming a rapper, it was like a quiet rebellion against
being from Rockville?
No, probably not.
I would have assumed you were a rocker.
I would have assumed, sorry.
I see.
You know, is the influence for the movie Joe's record, Paradise?
Have you been there before?
I used to work in downtown Silver Spring.
This is what I've been wanting to ask you.
All right, Nardwar.
I bought some great records at that shop.
So I worked at the Discovery building.
At Discovery.
Do you remember in downtown Silver Spring?
No.
The Discovery Networks.
You got a lint on you.
I don't know, it's Dandruff.
It's Dandruff.
I'm a disgusting one.
Yeah, I bought some great stuff there.
Have you been there before?
I have, and I would have never remembered it unless you just said it right now.
Really?
You unlocked like a core memory.
Really?
Yeah, this is like right next to Wild Shit.
Do you remember the rare record section?
No, I don't.
They have like a section that was like a little bit cordoned off.
Nice.
And I bought some.
Yeah, yeah.
See, it's the late night in you.
Get out of the, hopefully Ice takes that one away.
It's horrible, right?
Wow.
No, I'm just kidding.
Sorry, sorry.
Sorry.
How old are you?
I'm 35.
So we're, yeah, we're around the same age.
For shizzle.
Yeah.
So like, so you have obviously a really crazy backstory, which you like go into
a lot in
your career and stuff that you reference.
And your dad is like, something I found interesting when I was researching is
like your dad is kind
of like you've reconnected with, but it doesn't seem like as if you've
reconnected with your
mother like you have.
Great question.
Yeah.
So my dad, I mean, that's a whole thing.
My mom.
So one of the last times I had spoken to my mom was on my 21st birthday and I
hadn't seen
her in a few years, you know, and the thing about my mother is she's just a
mentally ill
person.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So I've definitely relinquished any anger or any of that that I had.
Yeah.
But I hadn't seen her in a few years since I was probably 17, 18.
And the last time I'd seen her, she was like covered in blood and naked and
screaming
and the police were there.
It was a whole thing.
My word.
It was wild.
Yeah.
My sister calls me crying, talking about mommy says you don't talk to her
because of me.
And I'm like, what the fuck does that have to do with this?
This doesn't make any sense.
So I call my mother, having not spoken in a few years, and I'm just like, look,
respectfully,
I don't talk to you because of you and because there is no mutual respect here
and it's your
way or the highway with everything.
So just know that.
And then she yelled at me and screamed at me and called me a and then hung up
the phone.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, gnarly.
Yeah.
You gave her the pass or no?
Definitely not.
No, no, no.
Pretty raw to be like exposing.
I mean, I guess it's part of your art and part of your career is like talking
about.
I'm just an honest person.
Yeah.
You know, and I think a lot of that in hip hop is very taboo.
Your father, well, you said he's, is he from D.C. or death?
Yeah.
He just spent his whole life in Chocolate City playing African percussion.
He played go-go?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Did he play go-go?
When was the first time you made a beat?
Oh, man.
Was it on the library computer at school?
No, I wish.
I remember the first time.
Well, I recorded music before I ever made a beat.
I was about 15 years old and I had this super like dinosaur manila computer and
computer monitor.
And on the monitor, there was this tiny little microphone hole and I would just
rap into it like this.
And I still have the recordings.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
I have every song I've ever recorded.
How many songs have you made in your life?
Thousands.
Probably.
Probably like two plus thousands.
Really?
Yeah.
And so, what like got you, what got you like to L.A.?
This was back when like Twitter was just like, you'd be like, yo, I just had
some eggs.
Like that's what Twitter was for at the time.
Yeah.
Me and other incredible musicians, whether it was Big Sean, Mac Miller, Wiz
Khalifa, we were utilizing Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, especially Twitter,
as a platform to promote ourselves, which nobody was really doing at the time.
Which almost sounds like not real.
Like, everybody promotes themselves on Twitter now, but it was a different time.
So, you were like pre-SoundCloud kind of.
Yes.
For sure.
You're the Dat Piff era.
This is, yeah.
This is like pre-Spot.
Like, I remember being called from my manager at the time being like, yo,
Spotify, Spotify.
I'm like, what the fuck is that shit?
It's a Swedish thing.
It is.
You get six cents for every one million players.
And some fish.
Yeah.
They give you fish?
That's sweet as fish.
Who signed you at Def Jam?
No ID.
Really?
The legendary No ID.
And he was, was he your first mentor?
No ID was the one who told me I was a producer.
So, going back to what you were saying, you know, what kind of why I started
here was like, I'm like, what?
I'm not a producer.
I just rap.
Yeah.
But we'd be in the studio and I'd be telling No ID, like, could you change the
drums to, like, these drums you did?
And can we get this on that?
And all this shit.
And he just, he had seen that.
And without kind of even announcing it to me, it was like, just go work with
these people over here.
And he gave me some of his best musicians.
So cool.
Other producers and taught me a lot.
Taught me to Swedish fish.
I wish I was, I'm so jealous of him.
Yeah.
What am I going to get put on by Jerry Seinfeld?
I'm like, he's like, I want you to work with Andrew Schultz.
Jerry's, Jerry's, Jerry's awesome.
What?
I met Jerry in Vegas and he lived in Vegas for a while.
I grew up in Vegas, yeah.
He's got some great opinions on global politics right now.
Yeah.
I watch anime.