Logic’s recently announced that his next album, Everybody, will be released on May 5, and today he dropped the project’s title track. “Everybody” was the first song the Maryland MC wrote for the album almost two years ago, and while he didn’t originally have a concept for the whole album, he knew he had a lot that he wanted to get off his chest.

“On this specific song I’m letting it be known that I have experienced racism from both ends,” he tells Genius. “Because of that—it sucks and it hurts—but I’m here to say that we’re all people and we all are treated fucked up. I wanna be there to say something for people in the biracial community as well, that’s it.”

The song’s chorus—“Everybody people, everybody bleed, everybody need, something / Everybody love, everybody know, how it go”—touches on his sentiments. Logic goes deeper to speak on how he views himself in the world these days.

“It’s crazy to think about it—people saying whatever they want to say racially about me but at the end of the day, I have to look in the mirror and see the man that I do and know, that in my bloodline and my lineage was the slave and the master,” he tells Genius. “That’s what made me, that’s what created me, and it’s kind of fucked up to think about that but I’m not ashamed of who I am.”

Logic sat down with Genius for the latest episode of Verified, breaking down his latest hit. Watch him go line-for-line with “Everybody” in the video above, and then check out past episodes below.

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