For his first appearance on the Complex Cover, Logic is joined by Tyson to discuss the genesis of their collaboration, the concept album (and the album as a concept), humanity’s past, and black people in the Louvre.

The Maryland rapper and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson join forces to speculate about the future of music and humanity, through the lens of Logic’s third studio album, Everybody.

NDT: So dude, you haven’t had a hit single. What’s wrong with you?

L: I don’t give a shit. I think that’s what it is.

L: When I started creating this album two years ago, it was before my other album was even out. I was writing, and it just so happened that a lot of the subject matter I’m discussing on this album, which is the fight for equality of every man, woman, and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation—because I believe that we are born equal, but we are not treated equally—I’m just here to say, “Just be a good person, and really respect others.” I’m proud to be bi-racial, and there’s a lot of people that say things like, “I don’t see color,” and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, our difference shouldn’t separate us. For me in this era, [with] everything that we’re going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

L: See, people will ask me, “What would you do if you could go back and talk to your younger self?” And I always say, if I could go back and talk to my younger self, I’d tell him, “Too bad you couldn’t make it!” So I [would] work ten times fuckin’ harder! If you go back and you’re like, “Oh, you’re gonna be an astrophysicist and everybody’s gonna love you.” It’s like, no, you gotta fight.

Check out Logic and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s full interview here.

Source: Complex