Everything I’d seen up to that point was mild in comparison. Logic wrote, “The blowback and abuse I’d experienced in the wake of the VMAs was like nothing I’d ever experienced. Though the impact of the song was undeniable, the song also caught a wave of criticism.
I wanted to bring these issues of mental health and suicide to the forefront of people’s minds and make them stop and look and pay attention, and I did.” Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline spiked by something like 50%. GQ recently revealed an excerpt from the new book which sees Logic discussing the song, “But more than the sales or the money was the feeling that I’d had an impact on the culture.