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It's clear that you have a real love for that era of hip-hop, right? It feels like a bit of a '90s throwback вЂ“ you mention Wu-Tang Clan, Mos Def. OK, so since we won't go to the future quite yet, let's go back in time. I mean, '12 days for a wild reason?' I've got to know. I hit up my homie Egon and he literally overnighted me, like, one-hundred-and-fifty vinyl so that I could get on this mission of recording this album. Logic: I chose Vinyl Days because we actually recorded the entire album in about 12 days, for a wild reason that I'll explain another time. To listen to the broadcast version of this conversation, use the audio player at the top of this page.ДЄ MartГnez, Morning Edition : Let's get into the name вЂ“ Vinyl Days. This interview has been edited and condensed. 'I would rather have amassed the financial stability that I have, take a U-turn, and make music that maybe isn't so popular and take a quote-unquote 'dive' in my career on purpose,' he says, in order, 'to go out on a stage happy and proud of what I'm doing.'

Now, with that new perspective front and center, Logic is back with a new album, Vinyl Days, which also marks another big change: the end of his contract with the foundational hip-hop label Def Jam.

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So he did, carving out the time to learn how to parent and be present - he wouldn't have learned from his own, he says - while continuing to work, at his own pace, on various projects. I wanted to be there for his first steps, his first words.' 'Continuing to chase things like number ones, on this hamster wheel that inevitably never stops unless you step off of it consciously,' Logic tells A MartГnez. But there was, he explains, also real life: he became a father. There were sold-out tours, hit songs with famous peers and solo, a performance during the Grammys. Two years ago, the rapper Logic announced he was retiring вЂ“ right at the point when it seemed like he had it all.

Justin Fleischer | Courtesy of the artist. Listen The rapper Logic, whose latest album, Vinyl Days, was released June 17.

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