#JD Beck

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DOMi & JD BECK - Madvillainy Tribute (Madlib and MF DOOM)

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Them <3

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JID Live Show Preview: Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, 3/21, Chicago

Photo by David KA

BY JORDAN MAINZER

With his third album The Forever Story (Dreamville/Interscope), in reflecting on his past and family and framing it within Black history as a whole, Atlanta rapper JID has effectively sculpted his artistic voice. The opening track of the ambitious record begins with a voice recording of his old football coach chewing him out. It’s funny, but it’s also fitting: The Forever Story pays tribute to the people who shaped JID, by nurturing him, criticizing him, and having his back. Take immediate highlight “Crack Sandwich”, in which he describes himself and his siblings engaging in an all-out brawl at a bar in New Orleans. The titular metaphor flips a Reagan-caused endemic on its head and reclaims it as one of ingenuity, JID admiring his brothers and sisters’ ability to survive in spite of white hegemony and systems of oppression: “On the football shit, but in class, he on the smart shit / Black man using his mind, it’s a target on your forehead,” he raps.

Indeed, The Forever Story is all over the place, thematically and sonically, but JID’s flow and versatility bridge disparate elements. On “Dance Now”, he claims he sold his soul to the Devil for his rap skills and then consciously adopts Tyler, the Creator’s gruff, Satanic register. Equally as impressive as his trademark Atlanta breakneck pace and Southern drawl are his singing chops, like on the spiritual “Kody Blue 31″ and funky “Bruddanem”. He effectively dances atop Kaytranada & JD Beck’s skittering percussion on “Can’t Punk Me” just as well as above the Aretha Franklin-sampled trap loop of “Surround Sound”. Perhaps most stunning, though, is his minimalist humility on “Sistanem”, a reflective and subdued track tackling his own toxic masculinity, addition, and guilt over not having a better relationship with his sister. “I'm not the only one affected by the poison in the mind / And the lifestyle that shine from the iced-out diamonds / That combine with misogynistic mindsets,” JID laments, before declaring, “I tossed that mindset overboard like an object,” one of seemingly infinite times he processes his internal struggles through unrivaled wordplay and layered poetry.

Tonight at the Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, JID co-headlines with St. Louis rapper Smino as part of the Luv is 4Ever tour. You better bet they’ll do “Baguetti”.

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smoove

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JD BECK in RADD LOUNGE.

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Zatoichi by Denzel Curry but with JD Beck doing the breakbeat parts

Do u see my vision

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Before heading to Europe next week, Canadian psychedelic-pop singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco, a one-time Far Rockaway resident, is in the East Village this week to play his fifth album, the excellent Five Easy Hot Dogs, all the way through each night at three don’t-miss shows at Webster Hall.

(Mac DeMarco plays Webster Hall again tonight and tomorrow.)

Photos courtesy of Emilio Herce | @emilioherce

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Domi & JD Beck - "Flim" (by Aphex Twin) cover @Casa del Jazz Roma 22.06....

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'Flim (Live: La Cigale, Paris, 2023-06-27)' by DOMi & JD BECK

A higher quality clip of the Aphex Twin cover they’re currently doing on tour. via Maxim Doucet

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DOMi & JD BECK @ Kennedy Center, Washington DC, 2/25/2023

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DOMi & JD Beck _ Knxwledge

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Domi and JD at Coachella shot by Jenn Five for NME and Israelshoots

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"i have a dear friend who's had an abortion and she once told me that it may have saved her life because she was in an abusive relationship"

so you agree? abortion access helps people in genuinely bad situations and is not merely a matter of convenience?

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