After 7 years of wait, Logic has finally dropped off his 9th solo studio album Ultra 85. Clocking in at approximately an hour and 20 minutes, the 20-track effort features guest appearances from T Man The Wizard on “Mission Control,” DJ Drama on “Deja Vu,” Robert Ivory on “City in the Stars” and with ADÉ on “Ghost in the Machine,” Lucy Rose on “Interstellar” and Zelooperz on “ANTIDOTE.”
Ultra 85 follows up last year’s College Park and serves as the accompanying soundtrack to Logic’s upcoming novel of the same name — a sci-fi novel set in 2115 that follows the story of pilots Quentin and Kai.
Ultra 85 is quite literally years in the making; it was first announced in 2017 as part of the special Everybody booklet and almost didn’t see a release when Logic briefly retired from rap several years ago. There’s also some speculation about whether the project will be his last rap album after Sam Spratt, the artist who created almost all of Logic’s album covers, revealed on X that “Logic will be taking off the rap hat and going full musical producer” to create the musical score for Spratt’s Luci project.
Logic shouted out Eminem in three different songs from the new album. In the song “TELEPORT,” he raps: Made some friends and I made some M’s and I copped that Benz / Got a song with Wu, got a song with Em / Feel like this high won’t never end.” Logic flexes his collaborations with absolute hip-hop legends. He featured all of the living members of the Wu-Tang Clan on 2018’s “Wu Tang Forever.” The following year, he featured the Rap God himself, Eminem, on the song “Homicide.”
Another song where Logic shouted out Eminem is “Ghost in the Machine,” featuring Robert Ivory and Phil Adé. In the first verse, he raps “No, the game could never ban me / I’m a renegade like Em and Jay / Might as well be honest with what you say / ‘Cause no matter how you feel them f–kin’ people finna hate you anyway.” Logic addresses his position in the rap game by referencing Jay-Z and Eminem’s classic 2001 track “Renegade,” from The Blueprint album.
And lastly, Logic shouted out Eminem again on “Deja Vu,” featuring DJ Drama, a single that was released couple of months ago. In the song, he raps: “You think you got it, better get to praying / Who you know go toe-to-toe with Em? / “Homicide,” might have to go again / Student of the game, I studied him / JAY-Z, Nasir, and Rakim.” ‘Homicide’ by Logic, featuring Eminem was one of the lead singles that leads to the 5th full album from Logic, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind where it would receive and garner a positive reception. He talks about that feature with Eminem, saying that if he would ever have another Eminem feature, he will make it an effort to be on par with Eminem’s lyricism and delivery.
