Justin Bieber, One Direction, Young Jeezy, and Ty Dolla $ign are among many artists who released new albums last Friday. But besides new tunes from such mainstream musicians, it is important to recognize low key artists who are also making their way in the music industry. Specifically, Logic.

Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, better known by his stage name Logic, has been polarizing the rap game ever since his first album, Under Pressure, debuted last October. Despite being questioned about everything from his integrity to his ethnicity, the Maryland native has earned much respect from fellow artists as well as his fans.

Last Friday, Logic dropped his sophomore album, The Incredible True Story. The album features 18 tracks with additional artist features from Big Lenbo, Lucy Rose, Dria, and Jesse Boykins III.

By the looks of the aerodynamic album cover, there is no doubt that the music takes listeners out of this world. The musical journey begins with Contact. This instrumental track sets the sci-fi theme of the entire album with its riveting drum beats and climactic undertone. Paired together, the two resemble a motion picture.

Contact also sets up the album’s storyline. Earth refugees from the future, Kai (Kevin Randolph) and Thomas (Steven Blum), accompanied by their artificial intelligence program, Thalia (Anna Elyse Palchikoff) are traveling to a planet called Paradise. During the duration of their trip, Kai and Thomas are listening to Logic’s at that time classic album, The Incredible True Story.

Listening to this album, it is easy to feel as if you are a part of Logic’s space crew. He does an excellent job of appealing to the senses by making listeners feel as though they are vicariously travelling with Kai and Thomas to Paradise. He even implemented the tracks White People, The Cube, Babel, and Lucidity, which are strictly scenes of conversation between Kai and Thomas making fans feel like they’re actually with them. Not only are his lyrics powerful, but the fact that this is a musical journey makes it that more enjoyable. This album is definitely aux cord worthy.

Aside from the sci-fi epic aspect of The Incredible True Story, this album can be described as a compilation of identity-forming songs as Logic progresses in his rap career. (After all, the album’s plot is space travel to Paradise). He first starts with the importance of making one’s mark in his third track Fade Away. His repetition of “they gon’ know my name until it fade away” implies that people will start to forget him when he stops doing what he loves, therefore he must impact society so he is not forgotten.

Upgrade and Like Woah go hand-in-hand as Logic reflects on his rapid success and reacts to it in the latter track. City of Stars is personally my favorite song on the album. It begins with melodic singing by Logic himself and includes a beat-change followed by lyrical madness. Logic’s goal of this track is to have fans perceive it to their liking and to also express his sentiments towards the genre of hip-hop.

“[City of Stars is] finally [me] not giving an (expletive) about what that person thinks or allowing their opinion to drag down my artistic integrity or how I create,” Logic tweeted the day after the album’s release. “To completely let myself be free by vocally expressing all the horrible (expletive) I think about that I kept inside for fear of what the truth would bring… It is a goodbye to ‘how a person should make hip-hop’ and a hello ‘to finally embracing and focusing on Genre-less Music.”

The Incredible True Story concludes with a song called The Incredible True Story which features an excerpt of a quote by Alan Watts titled “What If Money Was No Object”. Logic believes that people should not waste their time engaging in activities that don’t make them happy. He agrees with the notion that people should do what they love and love what they do and for him, that’s rapping, making music, and enjoying his rise to fame with his fans.