apper JID will have taken four years to offer a new album, his third, but the wait was worth it. The Forever Story is amazing, and breathless, the MC shines at the microphone with agility and flexibility, a worthy heir to the inventiveness of the Atlanta rap scene — we will compare his very diversified prosody and tone to those of André 3000 from Outkast. Incidentally, his origins, just like his family (his colleagues from EarthGang, with whom he forms the collective Spillage Village, collaborate on the formidable can’t punk meco-written with Kaytranada, are at the heart of the story he offers on Tea Forever Storypresented as the logical continuation of the previous album (The Never Story), when it could be its prelude. On productions borrowing a lot from soul and retro R&B, even when the rhythms stick to current trends in rap, JID sometimes displays his casualness, sometimes his activism, with a lot of spirit. 21 Savage, Lil Durk, Yassin Bey, Ravyn Lenae and Lil Wayne (among others) collaborate on the album, never stealing the show.
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