Pitbull says Jon Bon Jovi still asks him about making another song together after their 2024 collaboration Now Or Never. Speaking at Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami, the rapper recalled how his initial suggestion involving Livin' on a Prayer developed into a new version of It's My Life. Their enthusiasm leaves open the possibility of another partnership, but no new track has been announced.
Pitbull says his first recorded collaboration with Jon Bon Jovi left both artists interested in a sequel. During a conversation at Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami, the rapper recalled the making of Now Or Never and said the rock singer regularly asks when they will work together again. The account describes continuing enthusiasm rather than an announcement of a completed second project.
The discussion with Leila Cobo revisited important recordings and partnerships from the rapper's career. He gave particular attention to the trust involved in adapting material from another artist's catalog. For him, receiving that permission from someone with a long rock history created a responsibility to do justice to the original song while bringing a different musical perspective.
The initial idea concerned Livin' on a Prayer, the Bon Jovi hit released in 1986. Pitbull had suggested making his own version of a song by the band, but Jon proposed another choice. He encouraged the rapper to work with It's My Life instead, redirecting the collaboration before the pair developed the recording that eventually reached listeners.
That alternative offered an immediate rhythm, a recognizable chorus and a theme of personal freedom. Released in 2000 on Crush, It's My Life became a major song from the band's later career. Its message about living through one's own choices gave the rapper a natural point of connection, allowing his contribution to work with the original idea rather than against it.
Now Or Never arrived on November 14, 2024. It retained the central melody and chorus associated with It's My Life while adding new words and rhythmic elements connected with the rapper's style. Jon Bon Jovi took part directly, making the recording a shared performance rather than simply an adaptation built around a fragment of an older hit.
The chorus preserves the rock singer's prominent presence, while Pitbull supplies new rhythmic passages. His contribution addresses obstacles overcome, gratitude and the decision to take opportunities when they arise. The result keeps the earlier song's affirmative spirit but approaches it through an artist whose career has moved between rap, pop and dance music, joining different musical experiences in one recording.
For the rapper, that participation made the exchange more meaningful than borrowing an instantly recognizable hook. He described being trusted with material that already held an important place in another performer's career. The creative space offered by Jon brought an obligation to respond thoughtfully, making the personal relationship between the musicians part of the story behind the finished track.
The two had met years before the single, at a Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in 2017. Their contact continued and became a friendship before developing into a recording partnership. The collaboration therefore did not begin as an isolated business proposal between strangers. It followed an existing connection that helped create the confidence needed to revisit a familiar song together.
They also shared a stage before Now Or Never at the Hollywood Bowl's Jimmy Buffett tribute in April 2024. Their performance of Thank God & Jimmy Buffett provided another public meeting between the two musical worlds. That event belonged to the period before the single's release, connecting their friendship with a live appearance rather than only a later studio production.
After the song arrived, Pitbull and Jon Bon Jovi performed it together, including at the Latin Grammy Awards in Miami in November 2024. The televised appearance brought their collaboration to a wider audience within a major Latin music event. Other joint performances, including at Jones Beach Theater, extended the recording's life onstage as the artists continued sharing the song.
The choice of It's My Life remains an important detail in that history. The rapper began with one of the band's biggest earlier hits, but Jon selected a different composition with room for the new rhythmic approach. Keeping the familiar chorus allowed listeners to recognize its origin while the additional material made the partnership audible as something more than a straight cover.
According to Pitbull, the positive relationship continues through Jon's recurring question about another collaboration. No title, producer, recording session or potential release date was supplied. He also did not establish whether a new partnership would revisit another Bon Jovi recording or involve an entirely original composition. Interest in working together should therefore remain distinct from a confirmed forthcoming single.
Bon Jovi have separately announced large-scale shows for 2027, without presenting the rapper as a participant. He continues his own activity following the October release of PITCOIN. That album also includes Reach For The Stars with KISS, drawing on Rock and Roll All Nite and reflecting his continuing interest in bringing established rock material into his musical setting.
Those separate projects do not confirm a follow-up to Now Or Never. What Pitbull offered in Miami was the story of an earlier creative decision, the trust he felt from Jon and the invitation he says still arises when they meet. A second collaboration remains a possibility, with no specific plan yet presented publicly by the two artists.
