A Rhetorical Analysis Of Logic Take It Back

Logic, also known as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, is a twenty-seven year old bi-racial hip-hop artist from Gaithersburg, Maryland. He has been producing music since 2009 with his first unofficial mixtape Psychological Logic: The Mixtape. He later released an official mixtape titled Young, Broke and Infamous a year later. In 2013 Logic released his fourth mixtape, Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever, which would lead him to get signed with Def Jam Records in April. On July 21, 2017, Logic released a music video for his song “Take it Back” from his third album Everybody. A rhetorical analysis of “Take It Back” reveals Logic’s successful attempts to present his viewers on his perspectives on inequality in America. The beginning of the video opens “in medias res” with Logic lying on the ground unconscious with smoke looming over her body. In the background a muffled version of “Killing Spree”

Logic disarms the man and beats him down, dismantling the weapon afterwards. All the while the other man just watches from a distance. The man with the gun represents those who have talked down to Logic personally. This scene can be connected to other songs where Logic has told about his struggles as a youth. People telling him that he would never amount to nothing in life. Hating on him because his mother is white or that his dad is black. The gun represents all the threats that he has heard while trying to make a name for himself, as people have threatened to kill him for who he is and disagreeing with him. Despite beating the man down Logic dismantles the weapon signifying that he would rather take a non violent path to reach his goal as he does not want to spread hatred, but inspire love. The second man in the background is one of the bystanders that never do anything, they just stand and let things happen thinking they have no control over