BY NICOLE CORMIER • AUGUST 28, 2018

These days, Logic may be known for his chart-topping projects and Grammy nominations, but it was his come-up in the mixtape scene that got the Maryland MC/producer to this plateau. With a dynamic flow that can be rapid fire one moment and subdued the next, his manic personality has always shined through when he spits, even when it’s on catchy, awareness-minded P.S.A.-style tracks.

That said, Young Sinatra has always paid tribute to the MCs before him, both with his lyrics and well-placed homages. He does things that many of his peers sometimes fail to, and that is properly attribute the greats. Logic’s latest offering comes with the announcement of the release of Young Sinatra 4, which is set to drop on September 28, and a freestyle to preclude it. In the aptly named, “YSIV Freestyle,” Bobby keeps it simple in an all-black wardrobe in an empty warehouse type building with fluorescent overhead lighting, somehow reminiscent of the BET cyphers.

The simplicity seems to offset the complexity that Logic throws out in the freestyle, which seems to foreshadow what is to come in the fourth installment of the Young Sinatra series. Over the top of Method Man’s “Bring The Pain” instrumental (as produced by RZA) from 1994, he lays it all out with blistering bars.

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