JID ‘s God Does Like Ugly extends Southern rap’s tradition of exposing the struggles of young Black men below the Mason-Dixon. In a recent Complex interview , the Atlanta rapper took the time to explain the origin of his title: “In 2019, my grandmother passed,” he said. “But before this, I remember just speaking to her; it was something crazy going on, a world occurrence or something. And shawty was like, ‘God does like ugly, letting all this [happen].’ And then she was like, ‘You should name this your album.'”

JID has been working on the album since 2020, and many of these tracks came from a place of pain. On top of his grandmother’s passing, JID suffered additional losses in his close circle. He also became a father, an experience that offered the Dreamville MC an opportunity t

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