diff --git a/src/rapids_singlecell/preprocessing/_normalize.py b/src/rapids_singlecell/preprocessing/_normalize.py
index e4f92912..0cc7df53 100644
--- a/src/rapids_singlecell/preprocessing/_normalize.py
+++ b/src/rapids_singlecell/preprocessing/_normalize.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import cupy as cp
 from cupyx.scipy import sparse
+from cupyx.scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
 from scanpy.get import _get_obs_rep, _set_obs_rep
 
 from rapids_singlecell._compat import (
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from anndata import AnnData
-    from cupyx.scipy.sparse import csr_matrix, spmatrix
+    from cupyx.scipy.sparse import spmatrix
 
     from rapids_singlecell._utils import ArrayTypesDask
 
@@ -211,6 +212,19 @@ def __sum(X_part):
     return target_sum
 
 
+def _calc_log1p(X: ArrayTypesDask) -> ArrayTypesDask:
+    if isinstance(X, DaskArray):
+        meta = _meta_sparse if isinstance(X._meta, csr_matrix) else _meta_dense
+        X = X.map_blocks(_calc_log1p, meta=meta(X.dtype))
+    else:
+        X = X.copy()
+        if sparse.issparse(X):
+            X = X.log1p()
+        else:
+            X = cp.log1p(X)
+    return X
+
+
 def log1p(
     adata: AnnData,
     *,
@@ -253,8 +267,8 @@ def log1p(
 
     if not inplace:
         X = X.copy()
-
-    if isinstance(X, cp.ndarray):
+    """
+        if isinstance(X, cp.ndarray):
         X = cp.log1p(X)
     elif sparse.issparse(X):
         X = X.log1p()
@@ -263,6 +277,8 @@ def log1p(
             X = X.map_blocks(lambda x: cp.log1p(x), meta=_meta_dense(X.dtype))
         elif isinstance(X._meta, sparse.csr_matrix):
             X = X.map_blocks(lambda x: x.log1p(), meta=_meta_sparse(X.dtype))
+    """
+    X = _calc_log1p(X)
     adata.uns["log1p"] = {"base": None}
     if inplace:
         _set_obs_rep(adata, X, layer=layer, obsm=obsm)