JID has dropped a brand new mixtape. GDLU (Preluxe) options appearances from Eminem, Lil Yachty, and 6lack. On Instagram, JID wrote that the mixtape consists of “4 rap songs that were almost on the album and I felt I had to share!!” The mixtape follows the drop of his most up-to-date freestyle, “32,” wherein he raps over an instrumental of Playboi Carti’s “HBA.”
JID and Eminem have beforehand collaborated on “Fuel” off the latter’s twelfth studio album, The Loss of life of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). In 2023, Lil Yachty and JID reunited underneath their Blakkboyz moniker for a double single titled Blakkboyz Current Half Doin Dope/Van Gogh. 6lack featured on JID’s first two albums, 2017’s The By no means Story and 2018’s DiCaprio 2.
The Atlanta rapper’s fifth album, God Does Like Ugly, is out August 8 by way of Dreamville/Interscope. JID shared the album’s lead single “WRK” forward of the discharge. The rapper shared a brief visible that includes a post-apocalyptic Atlanta as an album teaser. He additionally lately shared a tune titled “Beau,” although it’s unclear if this observe will seem on God Does Like Ugly.
After the discharge of “WRK,” JID on social media about getting into a brand new musical period. “Starting this new journey coming off THE FOREVER STORY has been a very strange, productive, yet tedious process,” he wrote. “I remember not feeling like I got what I think I deserved after that album came out and it sent me into a dark place (for maybe 20 mins cuz I ain’t no b—h). Fast-forward to Pluss playing this beat for me in the studio and all I could hear was my OG coach saying, ‘Let’s go to WORK.’ I live my life by the saying ‘You can only control what you can control.’ So this is the first step into a new world that I control…and it’s f—kin UGLY.”
God Does Like Ugly would be the rapper’s first album since 2022’s The Ceaselessly Story, which debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200. The Ceaselessly Story was supported by two singles, “Surround Sound” and “Dance Now”, in addition to the promotional single “2007,” which options spoken elements by J.Cole, Ib Hamad, and JID’s personal father.
JID’s collaboration with Offset, the Drowning Pool-sampling “Bodies,” lately debuted at No. 72 on the Billboard High 100 charts.
Take heed to JID’s GDLU (Preluxe) now.
