Logic recently shared a funny story explaining how Skittles ended up being his very first rap name.
While grabbing a bag of M&Ms, the 36-year-old rapper opened up to Jay Mewes on 5 Things about how the name came about.
“Skittles was my first rap name, and the kids were like, ‘We’re going to call you Skittles ‘cause Eminem was taken,’” he recalled around the one-minute, 45-second mark of the video above. “I was like, ‘But I’m not fully white, so I don’t know.’”
While promoting his book Supermarket on Strahan and Sara in 2019, Logic also spoke about the story behind his early rap name, “Skittles.”
The Grammy-nominated rapper admitted that Eminem’s massive popularity at the time played a role in the nickname.
“When I was a kid, you know, just rapping, having fun doing my thing in my neighborhood, Eminem was poppin’. He was the biggest and they were like, ‘Yeah, we’re just gonna call you Skittles,’” he explained. “I was like, ‘All right, that’s like the softest rapper name, I think, ever.”
