Louis Logic's carefully constructed public persona is that of a drunken fool with an Afro of truly majestic proportions and a history of unsuccessful relationships with women; if Nick Hornby ever wrote a novel about an underground hip-hop star, the main character would pretty much be Louis Logic, down to his self-consciously ironic choice of stage name. Underneath the persona, however, Louis Logic is a sharp-witted MC and songwriter whose rhymes blend clever comedy and rueful commentary about interpersonal and social concerns. Raised in the small town of West Babylon, Long Isl...