Despite being on good terms with J. Cole, Lil Pump doesn't believe the rapper was correct about his career.
In an interview with Bootleg Kev, the famous rapper chit-chatted about what he learned from his four-year conversation with Cole. "“He was trying to understand [the] young generation, ’cause at that time people didn’t understand what was going on with the music,” he said. “‘There’s this new wave coming in, we don’t understand it but we’re just gonna roll with it.’ But I fuck with J. Cole, I don’t have no problems with him.”
Kev wanted to know if Cole's predictions about the younger generation of rappers in his song "1985," which several fans misinterpreted as a dig at Lil Pump and many of his colleagues, come true in certain ways. "Nope," he said, "because I'm still here." "I don't think he predicted sh*t." I'm still here."
Despite his popularity in 2017 and 2018, with songs like "Gucci Gang" and "I Love It" alongside Kanye West, none of Lil Pump's 2022 singles have hit on the Billboard Hot 100.