J.I.D tries to avoid negativity as a lot as potential, but when there’s one factor he needed to argue about, it would be music. There isn’t any profitable that argument with him, although. In line with the Atlanta native, his ideas on hip-hop trump anybody he is squabbling with. “Do not argue with me about music ’trigger I am all the time proper,” he tells XXL in a candid dialog for our Off The Dome sequence.

That probably carries over into the lyricists he thinks are the perfect of all time. Now, rap opinions are subjective, however since J.I.D’s lyrical skills are supreme, the rappers he names ought to solely be revered. “The perfect hip-hop lyricists of all time, No order, I am simply gonna throw ’em on the market,” he says. “OutKast, each of them. We gonna go Jigga, we go Hov. I do not know, me. Yeah, there it go.” It solely is smart to incorporate the person who simply graced the quilt of XXL journal‘s fall situation alongside Joey Bada$$ to rejoice how they’re pushing lyricism ahead. J.I.D has accomplished that impressively on his most up-to-date album, God Does Like Ugly, launched this previous August.

Other than his immaculate bars hitting the folks, the Grammy-nominated MC has spoken to numerous others in dialog all through his profession, but there’s nonetheless one query he is by no means been requested. It is a shocking revelation.

Have a look under as J.I.D goes off the dome to share his fast ideas on his controversial hip-hop opinion, the perfect lyricists of all time, the largest false impression about him, the one query he is by no means been requested and extra.

Matters embrace:

• I preserve my pen sharp by…
• My greatest lyrical train is…
• My controversial hip-hop opinion is…
• One factor I hate is…
• The perfect hip-hop lyricists of all time are…
• I realized quite a bit about life from enjoying soccer as a result of…
• The cheat code for all times is…
• Do not argue with me about…
• The largest false impression about me is…
• The film I’ve seen 100 instances is…
• Hip-hop saved me from…
• TikTok rappers are…
• One query I by no means get requested is…

Watch J.I.D Go Off The Dome on His Controversial Hip-Hop Opinion, Greatest Lyricists of All Time and Extra

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