Bobby Hall, the rapper and livestreamer better known as Logic, will tell the story of his life in a new memoir.
Simon and Schuster announced that it will publish This Bright Future later this summer. The publisher calls the book “a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age.”
Hall, a Maryland native, first rose to national fame in 2017 with his hit album Everybody, which spawned the single “1-800-273-8255,” named after the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. In 2020, he announced he was retiring from music, but he released a song in April on his YouTube channel.
“I wrote this book for two reasons,” Hall said. “The first, selfishly, was to use this as a therapeutic experience, to collect my stories and thoughts on my life, and distill them into one crystal clear understanding of where I came from and how I got where I am. The second was to reach out to anyone out there who may have had a life as difficult and dysfunctional as mine to let them know that they’re not alone and there’s always hope for a better tomorrow.”
Hall’s memoir will be his second book; his novel Supermarket was published in 2019.
This Bright Future is slated for publication on Sept. 7.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
