After completing it, he was blocked on the lyrics for ten days, until he thought to rap from the perspective of his brother who had dealt drugs in Logic's youth.
[1] Logic raps from his own perspective as a child in the first verse, describing the crimes (notably drug dealing) and violence (mainly concerning guns) in his home that he grew up witnessing[1][2][3] but how he never became involved in them, unlike other family members.
[3] In the second verse, he raps from the perspective of his older brother and explores him being drawn into gang activity due to challenges in their home environment,[1][3][4] recounting that he was selling crack to their own father.
[4] Reviewing Under Pressure for XXL, Eric Diep wrote "Shades of Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole's free expression come to mind, but Logic's subject matter is just as eye-opening.
[2] Sheldon Pearce of HipHopDX considered the song one of the "many moments that make Under Pressure feel like a feature film about Logic's life," adding that "when at its best, it is creating that sort of imagery".