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JID at 2024 Dreamville Fest

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Key Takeaways:

• JID’s “32 (Freestyle)” flips Playboi Carti’s “HBA” right into a lyrical mission assertion for his subsequent period.
• The shock ‘PRELUXE’ version, slated to drop on Friday (July 4), might supply followers an early glimpse of the album’s inventive route.
• JID continues his rollout momentum following April’s “WRK.”

JID’s subsequent album, God Does Like Ugly, is because of drop in August, however the Atlanta rapper isn’t rolling it out empty-handed. On Tuesday (July 1), the Dreamville lyricist gave followers a style of what is to return with “32 (Freestyle),” together with information that they’re going to be getting a PRELUXE model of the undertaking.

Rapping over Playboi Carti’s “HBA” instrumental, JID comes by means of with bars like, “I was dumb, I know wisdom come with the age / I want some, I go get some, sick of the waitin’ / I settin’ the stones for 20-somethin’ summers of patience.” Elsewhere, he fittingly name-drops Opium Records — Playboi Carti’s label imprint — Public Enemy, and even the viral incident the place Lil Tjay spat on a safety guard at MSG.

Toward the top of the accompanying visualizer, JID confirms that his PRELUXE will formally arrive on Friday (July 4). Until then, stream “32 (Freestyle)” under.

While the total tracklist for God Does Like Ugly continues to be underneath wraps, JID did roll out the album’s lead single, “WRK,” in April. Fans first caught wind of the monitor when he previewed it at Dreamville Fest’s fifth version earlier that month.

As for the undertaking’s title, the Atlanta rapper defined the mindset behind it: “I live my life by the saying, ‘You can only control what you can control.’ So, this is the first step into a new world that I control… and it’’s f**kin ugly.” The album will function his much-anticipated follow-up to 2022’s The Forever Story, which featured the TikTok favourite “Surround Sound” alongside Baby Tate and 21 Savage.

Aside from his personal music, JID just lately hopped on Offset’s “Bodies.” It marked their first-ever collaboration, and a strong one at that. The track debuted at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated July 5.