J.I.D just dropped the single “WRK” back in April, working with producer Pluss and longtime collaborator Christo. “WRK” is J.I.D’s first solo release since dropping his critically acclaimed 2022 album, The Forever Story.

“Starting this new journey coming off The Forever Story has been a very strange, productive yet tedious process,” J.I.D said in a statement. “But 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*cking. UGLY.”

The Forever Story landed at the top of Okayplayer’s 22 Best Albums of 2022 list; with praise for the project as “an album home to a wide spectrum of records,” and concluding that “there can no longer be a conversation about today’s most talented and consistent in hip-hop without J.I.D being among the best.”

In addition to J.I.D’s upcoming album, there has been buzz about a potential collaborative project with Denzel Curry. Last August, during an episode of the NFR Podcast, Curry explained that J.I.D had actually tapped in with him about the album idea. “J.I.D, me and him always had good songs together,” Curry explained. “When I told Apple Music that I was interested in working with him, he instantly called me… He was like, ‘At some point, let’s do it.’ And I was like, ‘For sure.'”

Watch J.I.D’s music video for “WRK” below: