JID is Atlanta rapper Destin Choice Route, born in 1990, who traded a Hampton University football scholarship for a spot on J. Cole's Dreamville Records. His rapid-fire technicality peaks on The Forever Story (2022), which earned Grammy nominations — DiCaprio 2 (2018) is the other essential. Find JID vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Destin Choice Route, performing as JID, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 31, 1990. He attended Hampton University on a football scholarship before pursuing music full-time. He signed with Dreamville Records (J. Cole's label) in 2017 and released his major-label debut The Never Story that year. He has been a member of the loose Spillage Village collective alongside EarthGang, 6LACK, and others throughout his career. His album The Forever Story (2022) earned him Grammy nominations.
JID's sound combines hip hop, Atlanta hip hop, conscious hip hop, alternative hip hop, and Southern hip hop with his distinctive rapid-fire vocal delivery, technical lyrical complexity, and arrangements drawing on the broader Dreamville and Spillage Village conscious hip hop aesthetic.
Dreamville and Interscope pressings of the JID catalog have been issued in multiple color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings.
Listeners new to JID typically start with The Forever Story (2022) or DiCaprio 2 (2018).
