Smokepurpp and Lil Pump have a long history of trolling J. Cole and his supporters, even previewing a diss track last year seemingly titled “Fuck J. Cole.” Although the North Carolina rapper never responded to (or even acknowledged) the bizarre diss, their supposed rivalry has since become a meme, with Pump and Purpp fans hopping in the comments section of articles and tweets about Cole to express their fandom of the Florida rappers.
In a new interview with Montreality, Smokepurpp expanded on the rap’s most random rivalry and the gulf between generations of rappers:
The OGs that are around right now don’t sound like the OGs that were around before them. We don’t sound like our OGs and when we’re the OGs, the younger people are not going to sound like us. Music is art, there’s no specific way to make art, you could do what you want, you could grab a mic and fart on that shit and go viral. If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap. Nowadays everything is kind of a troll, so people know [our ‘fuck J. Cole’ tweets are] trolling, but if you don’t, we don’t care, Pump doesn’t care.
Although he’s never responded to them directly, Cole did come at rap’s new generation on his 2016 song “Everybody Dies,” with many fans at the time interpreting the lyrics to be a reference to Lil Uzi Vert or Lil Yachty:
Bunch of words and ain’t sayin' shit, I hate these rappers
Especially the amateur eight week rappers
Lil' whatever – just another short bus rapper
Fake drug dealers turn tour bus trappers
Napoleon complex, you this tall rappers
Get exposed standin' next to 6'4" rappers
Lil Pump has been dissing J. Cole going back to 2016, although he didn’t achieve widespread popularity until later in 2017:
Last year, he previewed his SmokePurpp-produced diss track, but never released it in full:
Purpp even suggested that him and Pump could take on Cole and Kendrick Lamar in a rap battle:
Watch Smokepurpp’s full Montreality interview above and read all the lyrics to J. Cole’s “Everybody Dies” on Genius now.
