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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'LOGIC Talks Wild Childhood, Music Industry, His New Movie' from The Adam Friedland Show on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-21. Transcript available.

LOGIC Talks Wild Childhood, Music Industry, His New Movie

Have you said no to a freak-off ever?
I was never invited, thank God.
You didn't get invited to a freak-off?
Definitely not. I wouldn't have gone anyways.
Does that hurt your feelings a little bit?
No.
No, you would have said no, obviously, but it's a little bit like--
I don't do-- I watch anime.
I didn't go to the club for the first time until I was 28 years old, and I was
paid to be there.
If I got a telegram or an invitation to a freak-off--
What is this, 1908?
If I got one of these invitations to a freak-off, I'd say, "Listen, I humbly
decline,
but I appreciate the consent."
Guys, we're back from vacation.
Very excited to be back.
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Let me start this week by addressing something.
I wish I didn't have to, but it seems I do.
As many of you know, in my last episode, I sat down with hip-hop legend G Herbo,
and it sent shockwaves throughout the culture.
It seems like many of those in the establishment didn't take too kindly to a
new face breakdancing his way in to the hip-hop and R&B space.
My name has been dragged through the mud subsequently.
My reputation has been brought into question.
Most notably, libelous claims were levied at me by prominent anti-Semitic DJs,
Vlad and academics.
Well, I kind of think it was really more of the bozo who was doing the
interview.
Right, what was his name?
I don't know his name.
He...
Friedman or some motherfucker.
It's like one of these like...
He wanted a...
He has a Jewish kid that probably got beat up, you know, and finally has a
little bit of a voice and is trying to be tough.
Because he actually called you a bitch on Twitter and stuff like that.
Well, of course he...
He called you a bitch in the interview, too.
Well, he's trying to engage with me.
I wouldn't...
We already got the dossier on him.
We got him doing blackface, all the type of stuff.
I just don't want to...
What?
Yeah, we just don't want to engage.
What?
He does blackface?
Come on.
Yo, show me the picture.
Show me.
This is him.
Okay.
It's still over.
No!
Come on now.
Look at this.
Yeah, listen.
We keep the files.
Look at this.
Look at this.
We keep the files on them.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at this.
We keep the files on them.
Look at this.
You know?
So like...
But you're a racist.
Fuck you.
me. Anyone who knows me knows that I hate racism. But if there's anything I
hate more
than racism, it's blackface. I've never participated in it, and I've cut people
out of my life
for putting it on. So when it comes to blackface, I have a zero-tolerance
policy. So I went
looking. I looked for an answer to how this image could possibly exist. I scoured
the
dark web for hits. I consulted with ranking members of law enforcement. I even
considered
perhaps that this photo was of a real African-American that looks exactly like
me. In the end, the
perpetrator was right under my nose. Who is this Judas Iscariot? Turns out it
was none other
than true crime podcaster Brace Belden. Now, to avoid litigation, my lawyers
negotiated a
recorded statement by Mr. Brace Belden himself, where he explains that this
whole situation was
entirely his fault. And I will play it for you now.
This video is addressed to DJs Academics and Vlad. My name is Brace Belden, and
I wish we
are meeting under different circumstances. I've been a tremendous fan of both
of your work
for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it feels like I'm on an amazing train
being conducted
by the two of you that's filled with art, drama, music, rappers, and mafiosi
alike. I've learned
a lot of lessons, and one of the big lessons that I've learned is that I need
to stand up for
the truth no matter how unpopular that might be. On a recent episode of one of
your shows,
I could not tell which, but you both were both there, DJ Academics shows DJ
Vlad a hurtful
picture on his phone of a comedian named Adam Friedland wearing both blackface,
as DJ Academics
tells it, and a cowboy hat. Now, DJ Academics, I know that you have a fidelity
to the truth,
and you wouldn't say anything that you didn't believe. And so I have to let you
in on a little
bit of information that might damage my reputation, but at least will help burnish
you with facts. I made
that picture. And that's not a picture of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.
That's a picture of
Adam Friedland wearing a cowboy hat that I ran through a filter of an
application called FaceApp
in the summer of 2017. I want to stress that Adam had nothing to do with that
picture.
There may well be, and there probably are, many pictures of Adam Friedland
wearing blackface out there. And if you want to damage his reputation or end
his career, or even his life, I won't stand in your
way. But that picture is not of Adam Friedland wearing blackface.
So to the DJs, Vlad, and Academics, I'm here to stay. And I'm actually a pretty
good guy once you get to know me. I've been at too many funerals over petty squabbles
like this. So here's your olive branch. Meet me. Face to face. Here on the Adam
Friedland Show. Before Twitter fingers turn to trigger fingers, let's sit down
like men. And I can't wait to see you soon.
And our guest today is Logic. He's a rapper as well. So please enjoy the show,
guys. We'll be right back.
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Our next guest is a multi-platinum selling recording artist. He is here in New
York City promoting his new film at Tribeca Film Festival, Paradise Records.
Everyone, please put your hands together for Logic, guys.
Clap it up!
Where is he?
Ahh!
Ahh!
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, sir.
Is this side okay?
This side is okay, yes, certainly.
Just making sure. Good to see you.
Good to see you.
Thanks for coming, dude.
Oh, I'm excited.
You know the show?
A bit, yeah.
Really? You took a picture in front and stuff?
Yeah.
I can't believe it.
Yeah.
We've had one rapper here before. It was a jade because someone manipulated and
tricked him into being here.
Jade is the coolest guy ever.
He's the funniest and coolest guy ever.
Even though I've never got to meet him. I took a picture out there because ten
years ago, I did my first late night television show.
This doesn't count.
What are you talking about?
No, we're in an office building.
This is incredible. What do you mean?
Thank you so much.
This is why I wanted to do the show.
Really?
There's so much care and thought and, yeah, so I did Fallon and I was so
nervous and I'm still nervous.
Really? No way.
So this is great.
I'm not Jamie Fallon. I'm just some schmuck.
No, you're not.
Yeah, no.
And it was cool when I took the picture because there's a picture of me like so
nervous before.
Yeah.
And just doing that as a musician and now being here also as a filmmaker.
Yeah.
For my first movie.
Thank you for having me.
Congrats on the movie.
Thanks a lot.
By the way. Give it up for it.
I appreciate it.
A lot of your mixtapes and records, they reference films, obviously.
You wanted to be a filmmaker your entire life pretty much or before you wanted
to be a rapper or no?
I've always loved cinema.
Also, if my voice sounds raspy, it's because I've been fucking talking a lot.
I heard.
And I've never been so exhausted and I think I had a cold and this whole thing.
Anyway.
You were on The View earlier.
No, I wasn't.
Oh, okay.
So anyway.
But the thing that I've always loved cinema because it allowed me to escape my
household and, you know, I guess mentally and the very like elevator pitch of
my childhood is like mother was a prostitute.
Dad was on crack.
Mom was an alcoholic.
Brothers in the streets shooting guns and cooking crack and wildness and all
this craziness.
So I was able to escape through cinema.
Yeah.
And my entry point into music, like truly as a musician, I was about 13 years
old and I saw Kill Bill by Quentin Tarantino.
And the RZA.
Yeah.
Jake.
He did the score.
He did the score.
Yeah.
And then you were like, I want to be a musician from the Kill Bill score.
Yeah.
Really.
Well, it was, you know.
You hadn't heard hip hop before that?
I mean, I had ears.
You're from Rockville, Maryland?
Born in Rockville.
Yeah.
Raised in Gaithersburg.
But it's the same shit.
Do you think that like becoming a rapper was, it was like a quiet rebellion
against being from Rockville?
No, probably not.
Oh, okay.
I would have assumed you were a rocker from, I would have assumed, I was, sorry.
I see.
You know, Joe, is the influence for the movie Joe's record, Paradise?
Whoa.
Have you been there before?
Whoa.
Whoa.
I used to work in downtown Silver Spring.
This is what I've been wanting to ask you.
Whoa.
All right, Nardwar.
I bought some, I bought some great records at that shop.
Wow.
So I worked on, I worked at the Discovery building, at Discovery.
Do you remember in downtown Silver Spring?
No.
The Discovery networks.
You got a little, you got a lint on you.
I don't know.
It's standard.
Okay.
It's standard.
I'm going to discuss it.
I'm sorry.
I have OCD.
Um, yeah.
I bought some great stuff there.
Do you have, have you been there before?
I have, and I would have never remembered it unless you just said it right now.
Really?
Yeah.
This is like a core memory.
Really?
Yeah.
This is like right next to wild shit.
Do you remember that they're like the rare record section?
No, I don't.
They have like a section that was like a little bit like cordoned off.
Nice.
And I bought, I bought some.
James cordoned.
Yeah, yeah.
See, it's the late night in here.
Get out of the, hopefully Ice takes that one away.
It's horrible, right?
Wow, my goodness.
No.
Sorry.
How old are you?
I'm 35.
So we're, yeah, we're around the same age.
For shizzle.
Yeah.
Um, that's, so like, so you have obviously a really crazy backstory which you
like go into
a lot in your career and stuff that you referenced.
Um, and your, your dad is like, uh, 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, um, she's just
a mentally
ill person.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So I've definitely relinquished