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On the deep cut “Kody Blu 31” from his newest album The Forever Story, J.I.D reflects on using sounds from his grandmother’s burial as inspiration.

Ebro Darden from Apple Music recently traveled to a remote part of Georgia to visit J.I.D at the home he bought to pass down to future generations of his family.

“The way it starts is actually at my grandma’s funeral,” J.I.D said of “Kody Blu 31”. “I have the actual footage. I’m sitting there crying, holding the phone, recording this, because I know it’s a big moment.

“A couple years before that, we lost my other grandma on my mother’s side. This is my dad’s mother we lost. Recording this, my dad is singing his heart out on this recording.”

He continued: “At the beginning of the song, if you listen to it, the first 15, 20 seconds, you could hear my whole family singing. You could hear my momma say, ‘Thank you, Lord.’

“It’s super powerful, and it’s just literally about keep pushing through. The song is saying, ‘Swing on, swing on.’ It’s a choir-type feel. My family is all over the album.”

J.I.D hails from a family that values music much; vocalist Johnta Austin of So So Def is his cousin.

Football was actually his first love, and while he finally discovered that he was talented at it, his desire was to play cornerback in the NFL.

“I ain’t always want to be a rapper or artist or nothing like this,” he admitted. “This wasn’t my dream. It was my first love, but you don’t always marry your first love.

“This was just, I’m really fire at this, I’m really gifted at this. It kind of came to me in a time of craziness, turmoil, bad shit was going on and the music kind of saved me from that. Yeah. I always wanted to be a football player.”

According to HITS Daily Double, The Forever Story is expected to sell roughly 30,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week and make the Billboard 200’s Top 10 list.

Regarding the music front, J.I.D is planning for his upcoming DiCaprio 3 release to be a Gangsta Grillz project created in collaboration with mixtape king DJ Drama.

On Wednesday, August 24, J.I.D had a listening event in Irving Plaza in New York City for his new album The Forever Story. The event was interrupted by police from the New York Police Department.

Shortly after the celebration began, the Dreamville rapper posted video of the fellas in blue arriving there without an invitation to his Instagram Stories. “NYPD shut down JID album “The Forever Story” listening party,” stated one of the subtitles.

The listening parties in Atlanta and Los Angeles, according to a member of his team who confirmed, went off without a hitch. It was shut down at 9 p.m. local time. The three events were happening at the same time, and J.I.D was meant to be at the one in New York City but missed his flight.

According to the source, the event was just too loud and attracted too many people, which is why the cops chose to shut it down.

On Friday, August 26, The Forever Story is anticipated to be released. Among the featured artists are Lil Durk, Lil Wayne, Ari Lennox, 21 Savage, Yasiin Bey, Johnta Austin, EarthGang, and Kenny Mason. In terms of production, the credits list a few artists including Christo, Thundercat, Tommy Brown, Kaytranada, and DJ Khalil.

J.I.D thanked everyone who contributed to the project’s creation on Instagram on Tuesday, August 23. He stated: “The official features on The Forever Story, wana say thank you to everyone who helped put these words and sounds together, this meant the world to me because none of this wa[s] eas[y] and you gave your all to my vision.

The Forever Story is the sequel of DiCaprio 2, which was released in 2018. The album, which was distributed by Dreamville, Interscope, and Spillage Village, reached its highest position on the Billboard 200 at No. 41, a significant improvement over the No. 197 that The Never Story achieved for him the previous year.

In 2017, J.I.D signed with J. Cole’s Dreamville record label. Since then, he has participated on a number of compilation albums, including D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape from 2019 and Revenge of the Dreamers III.