With each album that JID has released, he’s only gotten better. His 2017 debut The Never Storygave us a glimpse of what he is about and who is as an artist. There were some clear influences, but you can tell he had potential to be a unique trap artist. Then, in 2018, he came through with DiCaprio 2, a mixtape with banger after banger. The run from “Slick Talk” down to “Workin Out” still hits hard almost seven years later. However, his magnum opus (at least for now), is 2022’s The Forever Story. This combined the two strongest qualities of his preceding tapes and raised the bar for what trap albums can still be.
That being lyrically and story-driven projects that balance that trunk-knocking aspect that fans come to expect from the subgenre. It’s one of the best albums of the 2020s still, meaning it will be hard to top. But JID is an artist who can elevate like very few can so the hype is still through the roof for his next album. Well, after a year and change of ruthlessly teasing fans of his next move, we have a more concrete answer from the Georgia product as to when its coming.