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Logic Responds To Criticism Of His Trash Ice Cube ‘It Was A Good Day’ Cover: ‘Who Gives A F*ck?’

Sadly, we can't unsee the video so we wrote about it.

Updated 3/13/22 at 10:41 a.m. E.T:

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After receiving backlash for his horrendous cover of Ice Cubeโ€™s โ€œIt Was A Good Day,โ€ Logic has seemingly responded with apathy. When asked by a fan him on TikTok about the negative response to his rendition and if he has plans to make a covers album, Logic gave an interesting answer.

โ€œYou know itโ€™s funny you should say that,โ€ he stated. โ€œUm, itโ€™s funny you should say that because I thought about doing that. Wouldnโ€™t that be cool? Everybodyโ€™s all pissed off at me because I did a f*cking Ice Cube cover. Meanwhile I texted Ice Cube and heโ€™s like, โ€˜Man, keep on doing you brotha,โ€™ like what theโ€ฆ who gives a f*ck. Who gives a f*ck.โ€

Logic continued: โ€œBut you know what would be great? Is if, youโ€™re right. I should do a whole f*cking album, and just do a whole album of f*cking hard ass 90s records and call it โ€˜Logic Greatest Hits,โ€™ and get all them paid, and publishing, and take care of all the legends and the goatโ€™s and the greatโ€™s from the 90s. And f*cking do a covers album, who gives a f*ck.. whaaat.โ€

Original Post:

What the world absolutely, 1,000% didnโ€™t need was Logic doing a cover of Ice Cubeโ€™s song โ€œIt Was A Good Dayโ€ but thatโ€™s what we got. On Monday, he released his own rendition of the 1992 classic and itโ€™s just as bad as you think it is. Logicโ€™s eighth album, College Park, was released last month to little fanfare.

Naturally, he decided to gain some traction by doing this extremely unnecessary cover. The video has received millions of viewsโ€”most of which are presumably hate viewsโ€”on social media and since we canโ€™t unsee it, you must see it too:

https://twitter.com/LuckyovLegends/status/1633142163298213888

Logic has been critiqued for his version of the song for many reasons: his singing/not rapping, saying the N-word in a downright uncomfortable manner, the way he lowered and tickled the microphone in a gross way, his decision to even do โ€œIt Was a Good Dayโ€ in the first place. He has been corny for many, many years and this just adds fuel to the fire.

Even Ice Cubeโ€™s son, actor Oโ€™Shea Jackson Jr., commented on how awkward it was:

https://twitter.com/OsheaJacksonJr/status/1633206727587012609

Aside from his overall lack of talent, Logicโ€™s entire career feels performative. Blackness and what is means to be a mixed raced person in America is inherently complex. However, choosing to poorly modify a rap classic by one of the most pivotal figures in the history of hip hopโ€”someone who loudly protested the racist and violent treatment of Black men in this countryโ€”is definitely not it.

If there is one thing that weโ€™re certain about, itโ€™s that Logic will definitely continue to be corny afโ€”consume his music at your own risk.

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