J.I.D’s triumph over circumstance: ‘The Forever Story’

Brendan Nolte | Thursday, September 8, 2022

Since signing to J. Cole’s Dreamville Records in early 2017, Atlanta rapper J.I.D (real name Destin Choice Route) has built a name for himself not through the absurd style, vapid lyricism and obscene amounts of bass that defined the “Soundcloud rap” era in which he came up, but through a commitment to two things too