JID has wasted no time in dropping new music in 2024 — and it sounds like there’s plenty more where this came from.
On Monday (January 1), the Dreamville rapper released a new song called “30 (Freestyle),” produced by Griselda affiliate Conductor Williams — who recently worked with Drake and dropped a joint project with Conway The Machine — as well as Christo and Tane Runo.
The track, which is accompanied by a visualizer filmed during a visit to Poland, finds JID flexing his lyrical muscle over a bustling, horn-laced beat.
“N-ggas know I ain’t the one to sleep on/ I’m under pressure, gotta sleep with the heat/ An extra clip beside the dresser like I’m ‘Pac/ Paranoid n-ggas puffin’ pot/ Puffin’ out your chest, boy/ Stop, we ain’t stupid, we ain’t stuntin’ you or nothin’ you doin,'” he raps.
In an Instagram post promoting the release, JID hinted at dropping more new music throughout the year.
“’30freestyle’ jus put some raps on YouTube to start the year off right!!” he wrote. “Thank you @tischristo @conductorwilliams @taneruno for the inspiration.. we gone drop all year and see what happened 1/1/24 hello.”
JID announced last year that his upcoming solo album — the follow-up to 2022’s Forever Story — will be titled The Forever & A Day.
He said at the time that the project, which will have 10 to 12 songs, would be coming out in the fall, but a new release date has yet to be given.
This is in addition to his collaborative album with Metro Boomin, which is set to arrive sometime this year.
“30 (Freestyle)” arrives shortly after JID earned his first No. 1 single on Billboard’s TikTok Top 50 chart with “Surround Sound.”
The song’s popularity has been fueled by the “Booty Ceiling Challenge,” a trend which sees TikTok users taping their phones to a ceiling object to capture the best angle and proceeding to twerk.
“Bruh this challenge/song so fye from the wholesome shit to the risqué freaky shit, the point of music is to make people come together and feel something .. Job well done af , keep goin,” the Atlanta native said while celebrating the achievement.