Following the release of his new album The Forever Story, Atlanta rapper JID sat down with Ebro Darden to talk about the importance of paying respect to the rappers who came before him.

While JID explores many different sounds on his latest record, he told Darden that it’s integral to pay homage to hip-hop’s OGs. "I try to do my due diligence when checking off those little hip-hop purist boxes,” he said. “When I'm making a song, whatever. I always want to show love back to where it came from, the origin of it. That's why we sample certain songs. That's why we try to pay that homage back and even try to rap with some of the older OGs that's still kicking flavor. I know father time is a motherfucker, but there's still some n***as out there kicking flavor.”