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Ill Logik from the Projects
Born on the southside of Chicago in the notorious Harold Ickes Housing Projects on August 5th, Ill Logik was destined for success despite being born into poverty. Named after his grandfather, Earl Payne and football legend Earl Campbell, Ill Logik projected a charisma of someone twice his age. He began flourishing his creativity and had a vivid imagination early in life.
Music was always around his household as his mother Paula Campbell, was once a member of the legendary Chicago bred female trio “The Emotions” whose hits included ‘The Best of My Love’ and ‘Don’t Ask My Neighbor.’ Due to an early pregnancy Paula Campbell left the group before the national explosion leaving the task of talent projection in the family to her incredibly gifted first born son:
ILL LOGIK FROM THE PROJECTS
Young Logik developed a creative knack for writing and drawing which had been discovered early on by his parents. These skills had allowed him to be placed in a class for talented and gifted children while in the sixth grade. This class would help cultivate the creative juices that Logik posses to this day. Some other influences include: Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, and New Edition and range anywhere from James Brown to Billy Idol. House music deejays Farley and Ron Hardy also played a role, but it would be the movie “Krush Groove” which featured hip hop acts such as Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and The Fat Boys that would lure him into the world of Hip Hop just as a previous film called “Beat Street” would lure him into the same culture through breakdancing and graffiti art.
“Krush Groove” inspired Logik to begin writing rap songs as he had already been a writer of stories and R&B songs. Because of this, he would become popular in his hood for talking about ‘Yo Moma’ through rhyme.
After taking a name from a verse by LL Cool J on a song titled ‘357 Breakdown’ Logik would become Illy-Ill and would enter Hirsch Metropolitan High School located on Chicago’s South East Side in the notorious Chatam Village area. It would be here that Illy-Ill would befriend Producer and Co-founder of Chicago’s distinctive gangster music sound Jonathan "Joe Blacula" Whitaker , who at the time was a fellow graf artist and deejay. Illy-Ill and JB along with other ‘Unofficial’ members of the Chi Rock Nation would wander through the school having rap battles. It was through these battles where his love for Hip Hop developed into something far more important than his dreams of becoming a big time drug dealer which at the time identified all the players and playettes of the Chi. After school was spent drinking whiskey milkshakes, smoking weed, and recording freestyle rhymes in JB’s basement. These rhymes would lead to the first real development for Illy-Ill for it was in this basement in Chatham Village that Illy-Ill’s first songs were recorded.
After failing his first year at Hirsch, Illy-Ill would be forced to move with his mother to a then unknown to him Milwaukee, Wisconsin the next year. He would find Hip Hop again at the Milwaukee High School of the Arts where he went for visual arts. He would have much more popularity here than he did in high school in Chicago because the atmosphere didn’t demand the high fashion and drug dealer lifestyle as Hirsch had. Also this would be the first time that Ill would attend school with children of different ethnic groups as Chicago public schools were not as diverse. This move would also help further develop Ill’s versatile edge. It was here that he formed ‘The Ill Band’ with fellow members Kevin ‘DJ Steel’ Thompson and Atif ‘Animal Black’ Davis. But adamantly never forgetting his Chicago roots, Illy-Ill would return to Chicago to do several tracks for friend and music partner JB and in the following year he would return to do what was supposed to be a nationally released song entitled “Turn It Up” with cousins – The Conway brothers. This single would obtain local attention from Chicago’s radio station WGCI, but due to a falling out between The Conway brothers and Illy-Ill’s brother, the group disbanded and Ill went his separate way.
After several other hook ups and trade – ins from local talent around Milwaukee, Ill made the decision to stay on his own and focus on his own path. It was during this time that he again hooked up with friend and music partner JB who was in the process of developing ‘The Conception.’ JB had a concept for a song and wanted Ill to write to it. Not only did he write to that one, but contributed to several other songs throughout the compilation.
Illy-Ill’s luck would continue to turn around when he met DJ Wolf D & Rapper Mac Felon. Together the three would obtain national attention through a campaign for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation where he along with Mac Felon performed a commercial and radio ad for seatbelt safety. The commercial titled “Stay in the Game, Buckle Up” would mark the first time Illy-Ill would earn money for his writing skills.
While maintaining his personal goals and developing his career goals, Illy-Ill came to realize that he had outgrown the childhood name and felt that the world was now ready for Ill’s logic. Now donned with the name Ill-Logik, he would go on to do guest sit-ins as famous characters on Milwaukee’s local radio station V100 on a show titled "The Sunday Blazer" hosted by DJ Wolf D, DJ Los, and DJ El Yazar, as well as do commercials for the radio station. In 2002 Ill Logik along with long time Milwaukee homegirl Nina would create a song for a national Coors Light radio and television ad for their urban markets across the U.S.
In September 2004, Ill-Logik created a song called “I’m Rick James Bitch” which although meant as a joke, was put on a mixtape of one of Chicago’s premiere radio personality’s Mike Love of WGCI entitled “The Mike Love Show, Welcome Home John Monopoly” mixtape and gained national attention when an article appeared about the song on MTV.com. This song created by Ill-Logik and DJ Wolf D would be singled out as one of the most creative tracks on the entire cd. This led to Universal Records contacting the two and offering them a single deal. But a week later, just as the final touches were done to the radio version, Rick James would die and mysteriously, so would the offer.
Not to be discouraged Ill-Logik forges on writing and honing his music skills and continuing his working relationship with music partner DJ Wolf D as well as friends The Goose & Warren Giovanni. His strong writing abilities displayed by his wide musical range attribute to his love for all genres of music shows no signs of giving up. Now going into the world of script writing and video production, there will be no stopping Ill Logik.
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ILL LOGIK FROM THE PROJECTS!!!!
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