{"id":42170,"date":"2025-10-02T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/j-i-d-interview-maintaining-integrity-being-a-leader-lyricism\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:24:33","slug":"j-i-d-interview-maintaining-integrity-being-a-leader-lyricism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/j-i-d-interview-maintaining-integrity-being-a-leader-lyricism\/","title":{"rendered":"J.I.D Interview &#8211; Maintaining Integrity, Being a Leader, Lyricism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">J.I.D<\/span><br \/><em>Interview:\u00a0Vanessa Satten<\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Editor\u2019s Note: This story appears in the\u00a0Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands\u00a0now and available for sale on the XXL website.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want a BET nomination,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/jid\/\" target=\"_blank\">J.I.D<\/a> says when asked about his bucket list. It\u2019s not far-fetched. He already has three Grammy nods and with the way he\u2019s been dropping music, a BET trophy seems feasible. Born Destin Choice Route, the Atlanta native is cemented as one of hip-hop\u2019s premier lyricists, sharpening his pen with every project.<\/p>\n<p>Across mixtapes, collabs, EPs and four acclaimed albums\u2014<em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1gPqbxhs90kppgOVxGOPzd?si=XgPaDiLzRnGF3vtU2Sgl7g\" target=\"_blank\">The Never Story<\/a><\/em> (2017), <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2oI6gtIXrvNiL2VEMmj5kY?si=sxKoityHQzqkUdMH5r994w\" target=\"_blank\">DiCaprio 2<\/a><\/em> (2018), <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/4rJDCELWL0fjdmN9Gn4f4g?si=BTnhy_geTI2nW3I31x5JFQ\" target=\"_blank\">The Forever Story<\/a><\/em> (2022) and this year\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2tU04u3hxtziB4sOVJKak3?si=4nTVGcW6T6-LI4HA2DfF2w\" target=\"_blank\">God Does Like Ugly<\/a><\/em>\u2014J.I.D has carved out a clear lane of his own. For him, words aren\u2019t just rhymes; they\u2019re the foundation of his artistry, a puzzle he takes joy in piecing together with precision and intent.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges don\u2019t scare him. The youngest of seven kids, J.I.D, 34, grew up playing serious football in high school and at Hampton University. In 2012, he walked away from the game and from college to pursue a music career. He grinded over the next five years before signing to J. Cole\u2019s Dreamville Records, under Interscope Records, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, J.I.D has built his career on his own terms. For the thoughtful rhyme slinger, rapping isn\u2019t just about flexing skills; it\u2019s about crafting something meaningful that connects, challenges and lasts. On a beautiful September afternoon at Lower Manhattan\u2019s Sunday Afternoon studio, J.I.D discusses his career and collection of rhyme notebooks, being boxed in as a lyricist, his cover brother Joey Bada$$ and the will of the gods.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>XXL<\/em>: You were an <em>XXL<\/em> Freshman in 2018. Now here you are on the cover. How does that feel for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J.I.D: To be on the cover, that\u2019s hard. I feel like the last cover I had was Dreamville [<em>Editor\u2019s Note: J.I.D was part of the Dreamville Records group XXL cover in Spring 2019<\/em>] or something like that. So to be on it with less Dreamville people, just one, yeah, I\u2019m taking that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this your time right now? You\u2019ve had a great response to your most recent album <em>God Does Like Ugly<\/em>. Your singles are working. \u201cSurround Sound\u201d was a big look and your collaborations are getting impressive. Is this the start of what you\u2019ve been waiting for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything been intentional with my career. So, if this seemed like the time to everybody else, I feel like it\u2019s just the next step I need to be taking, as far as getting to whatever the next level is for me. Some would say it\u2019s the time with me. I\u2019m just saying this is already like, orchestrated. It\u2019s the will of the gods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The will of the gods. How much control do you give to the will of the gods?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You gotta be prepared for opportunities. I\u2019ve been just preparing for whatever may come, so I could just execute and know what to do when whatever presents itself. It\u2019s really just about execution.<\/p>\n<p>I put my best foot forward, you know what I\u2019m saying? I feel like that\u2019s when you leave it up to the will of the gods. After you put your best foot forward, you put yourself out there and let the fans or let the people who listen to it do whatever they want with it<br \/>because it\u2019s out your hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve now been in the game for eight years. You\u2019ve had success. You\u2019ve toured and seen the world. Is everything you\u2019ve experienced within hip-hop so far what you thought it would be? Once the door was opened? Once the Eminem relationship existed?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s kind of a double-edged sword, yes and no. Because I came into the game a little bit older like when I got signed, I already had went through college and all that type of stuff. So at this point, it wasn\u2019t nothing I was not prepared for, you know what I\u2019m saying? Because I\u2019m not like really a deer in headlights. I\u2019m a fan of the art and I\u2019m a fan of hip-hop and everything that we do, but I know that it\u2019s like a dark undertone to it sometimes. I don\u2019t lean into it for one second, even like some of the negativity, even the back and forth. I don\u2019t want to really lean into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think you\u2019d be bigger if you did? Or do you think that just doesn\u2019t matter?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>That don\u2019t matter. I wanna keep my integrity about who I am. I don\u2019t want to do things that I don\u2019t care about. I\u2019m not faking it. I\u2019m not trying to go viral. I don\u2019t want to go viral. I think that, viral, usually before it meant like you\u2019re sick. Viral is a sickness to me. Not in a bad way. It can work in both ways, but I don\u2019t wanna be your viral sensation. I would rather work for it. If my payoff comes 10 years from now and I\u2019m almost 50, that\u2019s fine with me. It\u2019s about really putting my feet into the mud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, it\u2019s really not the fame.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>You heard \u201cNever.\u201d Remember my first song? \u201cI ain\u2019t [even] in this sh*t for the fame, bruh, it\u2019s the pain, bruh.\u201d I still say that to this day. I\u2019m only telling these painful stories or these great stories about motivation. Then I feel like the stuff that I make [is] just because I was an athlete. You can work out to it, like you can better your life to some of my music. I kinda love when people say that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think there\u2019s a lack of depth in hip-hop right now or in what\u2019s connecting?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I think it\u2019s so much information and so much stuff out there. You can find whatever you\u2019re looking for. It\u2019s there. The depth that people say is not there, it\u2019s just, they not looking. It\u2019s like how to get your information is just like whoever\u2019s first. So, whoever everybody likes first and say, OK, this is that depth artist to me, the herd is gonna follow.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m looking for in hip-hop, I can find it. It\u2019s never lacking in any realm or regard because I could find the depth if I need it. I could find that moment. I can find all of it. You just have to look. People nowadays, I\u2019m not sure, but I just know, I don\u2019t think everyone is caring to search and find because it\u2019s just so much stuff, and looking for those moments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look for those moments and artists. Do you think those artists are coming out and what you\u2019re talking about still exists?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Yeah, it still exists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At that same level or is everyone just trying to have a TikTok hit now? It could be both.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Both things could be true. I also believe in some artists, and I hope that I can be like the leader of change for them. I\u2019m one of the artists who like, literally, I\u2019m not the only one, but I care about this. I care about our genre. I care about what happens to hip-hop in the next 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>I care about the stories that\u2019s gonna be told about it, everything that I\u2019ve heard growing up, I still believe those stories. The Tupacs and the Bigs and all of that stuff. I still care about those. I wanna make sure those are like well-handled going into the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You recently collaborated with Eminem on his record \u201cFuel.\u201d So, you get a call from someone like Em, a DM, a message from someone on his team. What\u2019s that moment like for you? Because that\u2019s nostalgia, right? That\u2019s him saying he sees you, right?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>That\u2019s that nostalgia&#8230; That\u2019s a blessing. It kind of lets me know that I\u2019ve been going in the right direction because my whole career has been full circle moments like that. Everyone that I like really grew up to or just loved and admired and looked to for something of depth or whatever I was looking for, most of those artists have circled back around and tapped in, you know what I\u2019m saying? There\u2019s a few I got the name that just, it kind of blows my mind that I have certain relationships I\u2019m able to text some of these people on my phone, literally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who blows your mind?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I mean, Em.<br \/><strong><br \/>Do you get tired of being defined and identified as a lyricist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wanna have a little fun?<br \/><strong><br \/>Yeah. Is it a torch you feel like you have to carry now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For sure. I just be aiming for the highest level of whatever I can do. And if it comes with more fame, if it comes with all that, like I\u2019m down to take it. That\u2019s the weight, the load I need to carry. But, nah, people can call me lyricist. I\u2019m not upset with it. I think it\u2019s a beautiful thing.<br \/><strong><br \/>Not to be upset with it, but to be always labeled?<\/strong><br \/><strong><br \/><\/strong>It\u2019s a box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a title that\u2019s revered and put on a certain level, but it\u2019s still a box. Does that limit you at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being from Atlanta, people kind of turn their nose up at the South and having the lyricists and stuff like that. Yeah, and they make the exceptions, like with Andr\u00e9 3000. I feel like I\u2019ve been regarded in that exception, but at the same time, it\u2019s just a different dialect. It\u2019s a different way we speak about things, and I think it\u2019s lyricists that people just wouldn\u2019t even consider that because of how it comes out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier today, in another interview, you mentioned that one of the things you do when you wake up in the morning is write something. Are you always writing lyrics, or are you writing because it helps you get your thoughts out for the day? Are you always getting something out?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I\u2019m always getting some out, whether it\u2019s writing a poem, a diary entry, or a manifestation or something. I keep a book, a pen or many notes on my phone. I keep literally books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you just think about one line that you like and want to remember, and write it there? A lyric you want to use later.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>It could be a punchline. I remember walking around during the pandemic and doing the \u201cSurround Sound\u201d like, just the flow of it, you know what I\u2019m saying? I heard the beat [<em>humming melody of \u201cSurround Sound\u201d hook<\/em>] and I just remember doing that over and over. I get voice notes of it, and so it comes with medium, but usually it\u2019s something like a funny punchline or something clever that I\u2019ll jot down, or just a melody that haunts me, you know what I\u2019m saying? And I\u2019ll chase it down until I put the words down. I\u2019m thinking of stuff right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, your world is words. It\u2019s how you think. It\u2019s how you get things out.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>For sure. [A notebook is] my pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance. That\u2019s the one thing I walk around with every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then you stack them up and save them as you finish them?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>When I have an album and it\u2019s a book that I wrote it in, I move it to the side, you know what I\u2019m saying, like <em>The Never Story<\/em>, the whole album that I wrote in this one notebook, I just never write in it again. But all of the pages were filled, you know what I\u2019m saying, with stuff that didn\u2019t make the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have you and Joey Bada$$ here today sharing the cover. You guys are good friends. You are just a few years apart in age and are dads. What do you think of Joey\u2019s rap style? What do you notice about him? How are you guys similar; how do you differ musically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First off, bruh on his Black plight sh*t, just like me, you know what I\u2019m saying? That\u2019s what anybody that be trying to push our Black culture forward and add to the little pebbles on the beach of sand that make up the Black diaspora. Like I\u2019m all for it.<\/p>\n<p>And then bruh from New York, bro. New York ni**as get a pass off like, not from me, but I\u2019m just saying in hip-hop, if you have that accent, some ni**as [will be] just like, \u201cOh, ah, ah.\u201d So, I\u2019m not saying that he doesn\u2019t do everything he needs to do, but it\u2019s the ethos behind it. It\u2019s the sound of it. Hip-hop started out here. This is like a mecca from where it was created.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, bro words and everything he\u2019s doing since he was younger, it\u2019s always been on point. It\u2019s always been intention behind it. [He\u2019s] a good dude, good artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As you get further into your career, do you ever feel a responsibility or that there is something you have to live up to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. At this point in my career, the older I get, being a father, I\u2019m leaning into more like the Nina Simone side of things. But it just depends on what you\u2019re looking for. I\u2019d rather beef with the system than another one of my brothers or anybody like that, you know what I\u2019m saying? 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