The Forever Story

by JID

Overview

Four years passed between Atlanta rapper and Dreamville affiliate JID's critically fawned-over 2018 album DiCaprio 2 and its proper follow-up, The Forever Story. Those years (an interminable amount of time between releases by commercial rap standards, even with JID showing up as a featured artist on multiple tracks and firing off a joint mixtape with EarthGang and Spillage Village in 2020) have culminated in an even sharper, more musically dense articulation of JID's profound talents with The Forever Story. The album is packed with nonstop displays of technical ability, complex wordplay, inventive use of beat switches, unpredictable shifts in flow and delivery, and forthright expression of experiences both personal and culturally shared. JID's stylistic range covers straightforward boom-bap steadiness as he ruminates on growing up poor on "Crack Sandwich," slippery flows over soul samples and anxious trap hi-hats on the 21 Savage-assisted "Surround Sound," interstellar jazz funk touches on "Stars," and even an unexpectedly beautiful collision of heavy synthesizer sequences and gospel harmonies on closing track "Lauder Too." The impressive list of contributors to The Forever Story includes production work from Thundercat, James Blake, Kaytranda, and others, while guest performances from Lil Durk, Kenny Mason, Ari Lennox, Lil Wayne, and several others keep the already angular flow of the record moving along at a head-spinning rate. With The Forever Story, JID turns in an album every bit as ambitious and monumental as the two solo studio outings that preceded it, growing in terms of technical talent while also opening up more lyrically. ~ Fred Thomas

Product Details

Release Date:	12/16/2022
Label:	Dreamville
UPC:	0602448609199
Rank:	3106

Album Credits

Performance Credits

JID   Primary Artist,Rap
Johnta Austin   Primary Artist
Lil Wayne   Primary Artist
Mos Def   Primary Artist
Lil Durk   Primary Artist
Eryn Allen Kane   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
EarthGang   Primary Artist
Ari Lennox   Primary Artist
21 Savage   Primary Artist
Ravyn Lenae   Primary Artist,Vocals
Baby Tate   Primary Artist
Kenny Mason   Primary Artist
Barbara Wilson   Vocals
Yuli   Vocals
Jean   Vocals,Vocals
Rasheed "Sheed" Hightower   Vocals
Randall Smith   Vocals
Christo   Vocals
Benji   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Andrew Barnes   Bass
Thundercat   Bass
Jonathan Curry   Drums
Jesse Royal   Spoken Word
Bas   Vocals
Justine Skye   Vocals
Reginald Maurice Ball   Vocals
Britanny Foushee   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Hero the Band   Vocals
Tane Runo   Vocals
Olu Fann   Vocals
Angel White   Vocals
Asiahn   Vocals (Background)
Juran Ratchford   Saxophone
Howard Joyner   Keyboards
Kaden Chea   Vocals
Olu   Vocals
Mustafa the Poet   Spoken Word
Foushee   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
JD Beck   Drums
Cameron Tripp   Trumpet
Vonda Fuller   Vocals
Maddison Williams   Vocals
Russel Favret   Guitar
Emma Hathaway Delhomme   Vocals
Sunshine Hathaway Delhomme   Vocals

Technical Credits

Kameron Cole   Composer
Dorcas Cochran   Composer
Eric Roberson   Composer
Charles Singleton   Composer
Eddie Jones   Composer
Elite   Producer,Producer
Leon Ware   Composer
Lionel Newman   Composer
Johnta Austin   Composer
Leon Sylvers III   Composer
Lil Wayne   Composer
Quincy Jones   Composer
Gabriel Guerra   Composer
Osunlade   Composer
Yuli   Producer
George Kerr   Composer
DJ Khalil   Producer
Dwayne Carter   Composer
James Litherland   Composer
Eddie Snyder   Composer
Daniel Seeff   Composer
Mos Def   Composer
Bruce Fisher   Composer
Jalaluddin Mansur Nuriddin   Composer
Courtney Salters   Composer
Gerald Harris   Composer
E. Jones   Producer
Paul Coleman   Composer
Alicia Graham   A&R
Eric Jones   Composer,Producer
Christo   Producer,Executive Producer
Khrysis   Producer
John Welch   Composer
Christopher Frederick   Composer
Benji   Producer
Edmund Sylvers   Composer
Ian Welch   Composer
Taalib Johnson   Composer
Shlomo Gaisin   Composer
James Blake   Producer
James Beck   Composer
Neal H. Pogue   Composer
Derek "MixedByAli" Ali   Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Justin Barnett   Composer
Carl McCormick   Composer
Asheton Hogan   Composer
Durk Banks   Composer
Chester Hansen   Composer
BadBadNotGood   Producer
Alexander Sowinski   Composer
Tommy Brown   Producer
Gary Evan Fountaine   Composer
Nonstop Da Hitman   Producer
Childish Major   Producer
Matthew Tavares   Composer
Thomas Brown   Composer
Alex Joseph Hall   Composer,Producer
Kaytranada   Producer
Louis Kevin Celestin   Composer
Cardiak   Producer
Anthony Parrino   Composer
Khalil Abdul-Rahman   Composer
Margaux Whitney   Composer
Tim Glover   A&R
Hero the Band   Producer
Groove   Producer
Latrell James   Producer
Christopher Tyson   Composer
Ahmanti Booker   Composer
Marissa Wickliffe   A&R
Taji Ausar   Composer
Monte Booker   Producer
Ravyn Lenae   Composer
Tane Runo   Producer
Markus Randle   Composer
Sheyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph   Composer
Stanley Richardson   Composer
Destin Route   Composer
Olu Fann   Composer
Cyrus Taghipour   Mixing,Mixing Assistant
Pluss   Producer
Latrell Boyd   Composer
Gerry McClelland   Composer
Eian Parker   Composer
Curtis "Sircut" Bye   Mixing Assistant
Benjamin Tolbert   Composer
Tate Farris   Composer
2one2   Producer
Jerramy Barnett   Composer
Nicolas Barnett   Composer
Alyssa Bautista   A&R Assistance
Nicolas de Porcel   Mastering Engineer
John Bishara Kadadu   Recording
Jesse Gumer   Composer
Hollywood Cole   Producer
Nami   Producer
Dylan Ismael Teixeira   Composer
DJ Scheme   Producer
Tsakmaklis Harissis   Producer
Ponce Feliciano Ecar   Producer
Tuetsch Luzian   Producer
Nuri Saberin   Composer,Producer
Jorge Miguel Cardoso Augusto   Composer,Producer
Tu!   Producer
JD Beck   Producer
Aviad Poznansky   Composer,Producer
Edwin Kenneth Green Jr   Composer
Elisha Mlotek   Composer
Zachary Goldschmiedt   Composer
Dj Barnett   Composer
James Icart   Composer
Quincy Riley   Producer