Logic Becomes the First Rapper with a New York Times’ Best-Selling Novel

Logic performing in 2018. Photo by RMV/REX/Shutterstock (9898868cz)

Logic might not be the most popular music act in the rap world, but he did something no other rapper has managed to do before him; have a New York Times‘ best-selling novel.

The 29-year-old rapper recently released his debut novel, Supermarket, under the pen name Bobby Hall, and the book has now emerged as No.1 on the magazine’s latest charts. Previous number one was A.J. Finn’s mystery thriller The Woman in the Window, which spent three weeks on the top spot.

Logic shared the news with his social media followers by posting a photo of his achievement and writing in the caption: “Humbled. Thank YOU all.”

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Published by Simon & Schuster, Supermarket officially hit the bookstores on March 26, 2019. The novel is described as “darkly funny psychological thriller” which tells the story of a young man who gets his secrets “exposed” when the grocery store he works in becomes a crime scene.

To accompany Supermarket, Logic also presented a soundtrack album of the same name which debuted at No.56 on US Billboard 200. Unlike the novel, which received generally positive reviews, the album was universally panned by the critics who described it as “uniquely bad,” and “suite of vapid love songs”.