Illogic
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Illogic picture by Marla Campbell
Illogic is a MC who made his name in Columbus, Ohio as a part of the Weightless crew. His first album, Unforseen Shadows, came out in 1999 (cd version in 2000) and was received well in underground hiphop circles. In 2001 he dropped Got Lyrics? and followed that up with Celestial Clockwork in 2004. All of those album were produced by Blueprint and released on Weightless Recordings.
“Favorite Things” from Unforseen Shadows
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“Screenplay” from Got Lyrics?
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“Birthright” from Celestial Clockwork
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Illogic is a talented MC who really hasn’t got the shine over the years he deserves. He’s versatile, he can make a deep song that will make you think or one pen a battlerap with nice punchlines. He is a member of The Orphanage which is a supergroup made up of him and Blueprint of Weightless, Slug and Eyedea of Rhymesayers and Aesop Rock of Defjux. But honestly nothing really has become of this supergroup besides a freestlye session on a radio station and one track on a Weightless comp album. It’s really just an idea they had because they are friends and never followed up with. They called themselves The Orphanage because there is no father to their styles but it seems the members have abandoned the idea of the group.
You can buy each of these records from Weightless themselves for only 7.99 per album. Out of the three I would say Lyrics? is the one to check out first.
Illogic’s myspace music page
