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If you remember, mild controversy occurred from Logic’s use of religious iconography on his Everybody album cover. An incensed Freddie Gibbs believing he’d steal the idea without giving him proper credit. Freddie’s cover art for his album You Only Live 2wice depicted co-opted similarly “pseudo-religious” themes. It’s only notable to mention, You Only Live 2wice came out first.
Freddie’s cover, painted him as a prophet figure risen from the dead. Elsewhere, Logic’s cover made him in a conspicuous “Where is Waldo” position, albeit in the foreground of religious iconography, similarly to Freddie’s artistic impressions around the same time.
#MWE
Day 21: Freddie Gibbs, You Only Live 2wice (2017). Gibbs reminds me of a
more subdued DMX. Angry but reflective, always sounding like he's
really bummed that you've left him no choice but to murder you. pic.twitter.com/V9DVNS5Cat—
burning ambulance (listen to the podcast!) (@burn_amb) February
21, 2018
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Notice anything about the two covers?
Things came to a head when Freddie ran into Logic in a restaurant back in 2007. He described the peaceful conversation as such:
“Logic stole that sh*t. We cool though, but you know you took that sh*t, boy,” Freddie told Bobby James of MLTD. “That white boy took that sh*t. It’s cool. I seen a n***a in a restaurant after that. I seen him in Ruth’s Chris.”
He later added,
“I said something that minute, that day. I said, ‘N*gga, you stole my sh*t’… But I’m not about to go to war with Logic and all his motherf*cking fans. It’s all good. I got love for Logic. I like his music.”
Consider the problem “completely resolved.”
