Their own zeal kept the persona alive in their hearts. While the Young Sinatra series was thought to be cut short in 2013, it’s clear that Logic remained just withholding and coy enough to keep the persona on fans’ minds.

Over the past five years, Logic tactfully peppered Young Sinatra into his music: The Incredible True Story’s “Young Jesus,” showing the softer side on his “Tree of Life” single with Slug of Atmosphere and Killer Mike, and featuring as Young Sinatra on Big Lenbo’s “Ice Cold” and “ Bobby Tarantino II’s “Warm It Up.” “The reason why this album is so special and the people love it-what I’ve released, and what they’ll hear-so much, is because I made them wait for it,” Logic told Nick Huff of Hard Knock TV. The question remains, then, how is it that Logic sustained excitement for a persona abandoned five years prior? The answer: Logic has centered his career around cultivating legacy while simultaneously evolving as an artist in real time.

There is even a track on YSIV entitled “The Return” to stress the issue. Check the comments on any piece of Logic content, or any commentary from Logic himself. Yet, Logic fans, who have been fed at least one release a year for nearly a decade, never once forgot about Young Sinatra. Five years in music might as well be eons. The long-awaited and often asked-for addition to the beloved Young Sinatra series comes five years after the release of Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever. Even so, with the speed at which music is moving forward, and the rate at which Logic is reinventing himself, there is something to be said for the excitement circling his most recent release, YSIV. They’re rarely on the offensive and are ready to purchase physical copies in mass numbers. In the case of Logic, his fans are zealots of the best variety.

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