Joyner Lucas ISIS (ADHD) Feat Logic Track Review

When two MCs that have notoriously had issues with each other end up resolving the problem and decide to do a track together it should create an exciting moment, but once the shock factor wears off a lot of the time these tracks are disappointments. The biggest example of this to happen recently was "Going Bad", the first collaboration from Meek Mill and Drake since their beef from 2015. When you first listen to that track it is a great moment, especially for the fans of both artist, but after those second and third listens you're left with a mediocre track that failed to live up to the potential of quality that the artist themselves set with their previous collaborations. This new Joyner Lucas and Logic track doesn't even have enough shock factor to get you through the first listen without recognizing the mediocrity.

The problems that these two had before were barely interesting enough to warrant a headline on a slow news day. Joyner felt Logic phoned in his verse on the Tech N9ne track "Sriracha", Joyner felt Logic was copying his phone number idea on his mega hit that used the suicide hotline phone number as the title, Joyner subbed Logic on his Mask Off remix by saying not to compare him to Logic because that was "Amanda to Ronda", even though nobody was really making that comparison to begin with. This was a one sided snooze fest of a rap beef until Logic finally responded by subliminally dissing Joyner on "Yuck" from his Bobby Tarantino 2 mixtape. That was the highlight from a pointless beef finally ended by this new track.

Unfortunately that same bland and uninteresting feeling their subliminal beef had, found it's way on "ISIS (ADHD)". If you have heard a track from either Joyner or Logic you probably had some guess as to what you were going to hear on this track, and if you guessed predictable punchlines and unimpressive speed rap then you guessed right. The only things more played out than rapping fast is lines like "even Stevie Wonder could see this" and Joyner does both. Not to mention Logic rapping about the crimes he has committed in the streets and flipping The Notorious B.I.G's "What's Beef" concept. It is great that these two ended whatever problems that they had, but that just doesn't automatically translate into quality.

Rating 4/10

 -ChaseCDHipHop