The Forever Story
by J.I.D
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The Forever Story is ranked as the best album by J.I.D.
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The Forever Story track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Forever Story rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | winklewart | Top 4 Greatest Music Albums | 4/4 | - |
| 2026 | NickD89 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 93/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 6/100 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 92/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 93 Music Albums of 2022 | 33/93 | 3 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | 2022 outliers (65/100) | 14/50 | - |
| 2026 | JeffN999 | Top 100 Rap Albums | 57/100 | - |
| 2026 |  KitchenSink | Top 100 Music Albums of 2022 | 64/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 171 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,351 | |||
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The Forever Story ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/01/2026 13:24 | TonySayers61 | 25,443 | 64/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2026 20:00 | winklewart | 4 | 95/100 |
| ! | 04/16/2026 12:20 | Liks_on_music | 656 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.1/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 4 days ago in Chart of the day (#5420): By Chris15789 BestEverAlbums 08/30/2025 20:00 in Album of the day (#5368): The Forever Story by J.I.D Purplepash 09/29/2022 11:04 in What album are you listening to right now?The Forever Story comments
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HoldenM 07/09/2025 23:31 | #310021
Coming back to this a few years later, this is much better than I gave it credit for. Excellent stuff. (Edited)
One of the best rap-albums i've ever heard. The rapping is fantastic, his flow is tremendous, the lyrics have good foundation in them, with good points and the beats (especially Dance now and Stars) are fantastic as well. Hope he can keep this quality up throughout his career. If he van, he will ascend into the goat conversation. If not, this is still the second best rap album of the decade so far. Hope this album gets the recognition it deserves on this website as well, but as so many other rap albums, i fear it will not get it. (Edited)
“The Forever Story” explores its central theme of family fantastically. “Crack Sandwich” vividly describes JID and all of his siblings unifying in a street fight. “Sistanem” investigates the complex relationship of loving someone with different values without a common enemy. JID’s flow is versatile and fluid. He jumps across the many beat changes without issue. The latter quarter of the album is a bit weaker. “Money” has an instrumental that feels flat with its looping horns. Both technically and conceptually sound.
HoldenM 12/27/2022 03:47 | #292244 | TOP COMMENT
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Top notch production and consistently sharp lyricism. After a few listens, though, I just wish more of it jumped out at me. (Edited)
Graeme2 12/11/2022 00:38 | #291883
The backing is quality but the way he switches up styles and flows, not over the album, but in the space of the same songs is quite a thing.
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