Fans Are Convinced J. Cole Is Taking Shots At Lil Pump On '1985'

J. Cole is 33. Lil Pump is 17. In hip-hop, that age difference might as well be a chasm big because the Grand Canyon. Today (April 20), J. Cole dropped his fifth studio album, KOD. The project finds Cole taking a satirical look at modern hip-hop and the illegal substances, cash, and materialism he feels like fuels it. "1985 - Intro To 'The Fall Off'" is one of the more pointed and antagonistic tracks, which finds the Fayetteville MC targeting a unnamed rapper who fans have determined is Lil Pump or maybe Smokepurpp.


While in the track, J. Cole takes various pointed jabs. The starting of his verse begins with the observation, "I'm fuckin' with your funky lil' rap name / I hear your music and I know that rap's changed / A bunch of folks would mention that that's a bad thing / 'Cause everything's commercial and it's pop now."


Pump and Purpp have made it their mission to mess with J. Cole in a number of ways. In April 2017, a song titled "Fuck J. Cole," reportedly by Lil Pump made its way to the world wide web. Earlier this week, Smokepurpp joked that he had a standout feature on Cole's album. In a January interview with Montreality, Smokepurpp referenced his trolling of the North Carolina rapper.


"Nowadays everything is sort of a troll," Purpp mentioned. "So people do know that [J. Cole tweets] its trolling, nevertheless in the event you don’t like we don’t care. Pump doesn’t care."


Cole's indictment of rap's new generation speaks to some of Purpp's assessment of the OG versus new rapper debate. Towards the middle of his verse the bars get more acidic as he raps, "They wanna visualize you dab, they wanna visualize you pop a pill / They wanna visualize you tatted from your face to your heels / And somewhere deep down, fuck it, I gotta keep it real / They wanna be black and think your song is how it feels."


"1985" isn't the opening time Cole has been essential of the rap landscape. On "Everybody Dies" several thought he took aim at Kanye, Lil Uzi Vert, and Lil Yachty. With lines like, "Bunch of words and ain't sayin' shit, I hate these rappers / Especially the amateur eight week rappers / Lil' whichever – just another short bus rapper," it isn't hard to be able to see why.


The recipient of Cole's message might not directly be confirmed by the rapper. Yet, the message for the hip-hop community is coming through loud and clear.