Logic - Sayonara lyrics

Ayo, for real, look, let me just say this
I wanna say I love Def Jam
Def Jam changed my fucking life
There's definitely some fuckboys
In that building
Some suit's wearing ties and shit
But it's some real good-ass
Fucking people man
Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff
Fucking Justin Duran, Dave Bell
Chris Atlas, David Amaya
I could fucking go on bro, Lory, Peter
Kate and Gabe
We gon' get into the rest later, man
But I fucking love y'all
Let's get to this shit, here we go

This my Friday Night Lights, track nineteen
From major to independent, as sightseen
My Ultralight Beam
I ain't finna go into the
Discrepancies of my deal
Like the millions that y'all owe me
I gotta audit y'all for real
But you changed my life, that's my word
Took a young kid out of Gaithersburg
And you'll never know
What it means for a kid in
His teens and his entire team
To go from open mics to
Actually living they dreams
This a "thank you" to the
People in the building
For helping me build the empire
That I'm still building
Diddy said a rapper only gets five years
We double that
Independent now, won't double back
I rep the BMG, yeah
I'm the Big Money Getter
Fuck the pop shit
Remember Logic as a spitter
Just a kid having fun when I step to the mic
That's why I never understood the hate
I get when I write
Back when posting new songs
On Internet rap forums
All the way to talking shit first
Night I sold out The Forum
But they hated Jesus, homie
I ain't comparing, I'm just reasoning
Homie
I'm just tryna set an example
I went pop and made millions
Now all I do is chop samples
Egon's finest
Peanuts after like I was Linus
Followed by that College Park next
That's the line-up
First album, the EP was No I.D
Last album, the executive producer is me
I'm set free
Sayonara

So the crazy shit is right, like
When we was shopping deals
Mike, Mike Caren over at Atlantic
He offered me a deal for thirty grand
I was like fuck no, hahaha, shoutout Mike
Though
Some independent label offered
Us one-point-five
And we was like nah
But Def Jam hit me up
You know what I'm saying
Noah pressed my A&R for ten fucking years
Bro
He linked me with No I.D., man
And I was like, "Yo
No I.D.?
That's Ye, that's Ye, that's Common
Homie - how could we not?"
And we signed a deal, we inked that shit up
Bro
Maurice Frazier, Lisa Bronson, Jason Peerless
Fucking Liza, Nakeisha, Mario, Ryan
Cordon, I could go on
Lynn Gonzalez, yo, Lynn Gonzalez
Ian, you motherfucker with the samples
Ian be listening to shit that
Ain't even a sample
He's like, "This shit's a sample"
I be like, "Ian, shut the fuck up, bro"
I love y'all, Antoinette, Donna, Jamie
Stephanie
Jenny, Paul
All you motherfuckers know who y'all at
And legal, man, album delivery
I fucking love y'all
Everybody in fucking A&R, admin, samples
PR, marketing, the execs
Fucking Barry White's old ass
That motherfucker took care of me, man
He signed me
I remember seeing a Britney
Spears fucking plaque
She went fucking diamond
I asked Chris Zarou, my manager at VMG
I said, "What the fuck is
Diamond? ", he said, "Bro
Ten times platinum"
I'll never forget I said
Never, bro, "Never
I'm not gonna go diamond"
1-800 almost diamond, what up? Haha
Billions of streams
Everybody in sales and commerce, DDC, Marcus
Scott, Bobby, fucking Theta, Mac, Eric
Fred Thomas
All y'all
Sorry for the first name basis
But I fuck with y'all
Everybody at Radio, man
First of all, let me start this
Shit off with Noah Sheer
Gaithersburg's own
We went to fucking Summit
Hall Elementary School
Bro
I mean you like ninety years older
Than me but it's all good
Nicky Farag stepping up in the ranks
I love you shawty!
Lory LaMattina, Keith Ross
Fucking Rick the God
Mundo Garcia, boy
Get a bigger pair of pants
Your shit look like it's painted on
Sonny D, my fucking brother
Britney, Scott, Chico
EP
Like, Rodney, Rosie, Rozzy
Brian, International
Mike Alexander
Marissa, Mira, Art, Ty
Ty, that's all I gotta say, Ty Lindsey
That's it
Finance, fucking finance, Jen Hersh
Melissa Bernal, I love y'all
Tour Marketing, Albert, Albert Cook
Shervah Edwards, video, oh, Millie
Gotta love Millie
Millie was always on the sets like
"Alright, make sure the Red Bull can is
Exactly in front of the shot"
I was like, "Millie
Get the fuck out of here"
Remy, Carolyn, Yolanda, Nadeen
And of course, of course
Deborah at the sample team
I fucking love you
Deborah
I don't even gotta say your full name
You are a goddess
Nicole Pastine
(And of course the homie Xavier)
Rapping is my passion, I love y'all, man
Look
This what I'ma say about Def Jam, look, man
We had some ups and downs
You know what I'm saying
My first album
I was getting sued by some fuckboy
And y'all was tryna get me to
Change my name and shit
I spent my whole fucking career
This who I was
Y'all trying get me to change my name
Y'all wasn't trying to put out my album
So we did the while you-wait shit
We went on tour, you know what I'm saying
But eventually shit worked out
But even with that, you motherfuckers
You know
You [?] me and shit
And that's what I'll say
I don't- I really wholeheartedly
Don't believe that was
None of the people I just named
Man
Everybody, I fuck with y'all
I rock with y'all
Any other fuckboys behind the scenes
Y'all could suck a dick
Eat my whole fucking ballsack, man
This industry is fucked up
The wildest shit is I'ma say this man
This whole industry is musical chairs, yo
Cats like Steve Bartels
Faisel, Jeff Harleston
Man
They they the real ones, you know what I mean
But like motherfuckers be so in-and-out
That's why I didn't stay with Def Jam
I went to Def Jam after
Ten years on the label
Because I owed them that
I was like, "Okay
So what's up? we signing another deal?"
They ain't even get back to me in time
So I went somewhere else and I
Don't know who butthurt or what
I could give a fuck, man
All I'ma say is I love
Y'all who rock with me
I love y'all who take care of me
I love y'all who fucking drove me from
New York to Boston to do
Radio interviews and shit man
Appreciate y'all
It's been a, it's been a dope
Time on this major label shit
You know what I'm saying
I've made millions and millions
Of dollars for y'all
Hahahaha
And we've had some good memories
I love you, I fuck with you
My only regret is I ain't really get
To fuck with like that
Yo man, you're a fucking G bro
Much love to Lucian
I appreciate all the fucking
Millions of dollars that
You gave me to make these records
Hahahahaha
Independent shit next
VMG, VMG, Bobby Boy
Sayonara

Logic as a rapper is an anomaly
A person who is out of time
Living in the present you know
Rooted in the past
But a traditionalist who believes
In the future
Who believes in what hip-hop was
And can still be
So we're here in this modern time
Thinking about and listening to
The development of
Hip-hop and it's future all at once
I think that a lot of people
In the modern sense of
The word get caught up in
How fleeting time is
And they believe that what's happening
Right in front of them
Is the most immediate thing and
It's the most meaningful thing
And they have to engage what's
Happening in the moment
Because the moment's gonna be gone and
Then they're not gonna care
Or no one else around them is gonna care
And I think we forget that
Great experiences in the
In humanity
Go on for decades, centuries
Sometimes millennia
Before we really know how to
Make sense of them
And so
In the same way that the monks in the
Dark ages were keeping records
And saving books
You know
It is important for us to really make
Sense of one of Americas great folk musics
And that's hip-hop
And there's very few people who
Care enough to actually keep
The form going while trying
To push it forwards
Logic's one of those dudes
And the reason Madlib and I decided that
We wanted to work with him
Is because he came through with a true
Sincerity and appreciation for the form
And for all of the people who make it
And like a true understanding
Of craft and like
Who's doing what
And how their technique is either important
Relevant
Something that needs to be preserved or what
And I remind myself that even
Though hip-hop seems to me
In my mid forties to be an old thing
Because it's been around since
The early '70s
It's actually just in it's infancy
And if it's not for people like Logic
Trying to keep this tradition alive
We're not really gonna know
Even shortly after
What's supposed to come
This hopefully is an art
Form that's gonna outlast
All these art forms that preceded
It and formed it
And we're only gonna know that if
People who truly have the passion
Belief
And the proficiency, the musical acumen
To hold the form, hold it dear
And at the same time
Not be so reverent to it and push it forward
Are there to show us the way
So hopefully he's one of these dudes
I have that belief