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Louis Logic started rapping at a young age but it wasn't until he attended Penn State in the mid/late 90s where he recorded his first release, “Logistics 101” which ended up being the B-side for his first 12 inch, “Planet Rock” featuring L-Fudge. Banking L-Fudge's popularity on Jedi Mind Trick's Superregular Records in 1998, Louis started gaining notority. He released a series of 12 inches "General Principal" featuring J-Treds (with the widely favored B-side, "Factotum"), "Loudmouth" and "Guilty As Charged" while making connections with artists such as Jedi Mind Tricks (landing two guest spots on the now classic, "Violent By Design") as well as others. In early 2000, Louis released his first album, "Music To Drink By", largely composed of his 12 inch releases. His album garnered mild fan fare but his off kilter flow and dynamics left him with a small fanbase.
Frustrated, Louis Logic went back to the boards and started remodeling his lyrical style in favor of more complex multisyllable rhyme structure and darker humor, and lost some of his "underground" curtails. During this period Louis's releases became more sparse but cropped up lesser 12 inch releases such as in 2002 Cage & Copywrite b/w Louis Logic b/w Vakill & Juice - 'With Us b/w Resume b/w Urban Legend'. Meanwhile Louis's peer group changed slightly, instead of Vinnie Paz and the Jedi Mind Trick family Louis expanded to Celph Tilted, Majik Most and most importantly JJ Brown, a young up and coming producer with an ear for cheeky yet complex melodies more suited for Louis's new found humor.
In 2003, Louis Logic released Sin-A-Matic, which gained extremely high praise, and even as recently as March 2006 on Artofrhyme.com refered to as ". Sin-A-Matic may be the best independent Hip Hop album in recent memory." as well as earning him #10 on the top 15 albums of 2003 at Rapreviews.com.
His new found style drew many comparisons to Eminem because of his rhyme structure and more notably his topics such as joking about abusing women, murder and among other inappropriate things. While Louis vocally sounds little like Marshall, Louis has always shown an affinity for Em's lyrical deterxity quoting him "No need for alarm, just remain calm" on Postal and even early in his career as "I used to be a loudmouth". The immediate comparison turns off some hip hoppers including his sometimes rap partner Apathy who surprised artofrhyme interviewer with his neglect to mention him in in an interview until asked about him. "Louis…I don't have anything to do with Louis. He was always more Celph's friend, I never rocked that tight with him. He was cool at first because he was more of a hip-hop MC. Then he started to get a little funny throughout the years."
Aside from comparisons, Louis Logic's complex witty lyrical flow has been the subject for internet message board arguments with fans often listing him as one of hip hop's best, sellout, stupid, genious and everything in-between. Louis even took time to mock the fickleness of hip hop fans who often are guilty of the "indier than thou" and too quick to assign labels to their music with Fair Weather Fan, as one of the unfortunate downsides of success in an indie market comes a level of increased critism. Louis also mixes politics in music and most surprisingly shows a very high aptitude for relationships from a male persceptive with his Idiot Gear.
Despite Louis's success on Sin-A-Matic, he mentioned that he couldn't make another album only to have it ignored by more major publications.
Louis Logic in 2004 released along with partner in rhyme/sound-a-like Jay Love, "Odd Couple" which had mixed reviews.
In December 2005, Louis got his break landing a record deal with Fat Beats along with JJ Brown for "Misery Loves Comedy" which was completed on Febuary 10th and being readied for release.
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