For years, fans around the world have wondered how long BTS could truly last. The group has already achieved the kind of success that most artists spend entire careers chasing, and after military service, solo projects, and a long stretch of separation, the question naturally grew louder. Would they still return as the same unit? Would time, distance, and individual ambitions slowly pull them apart? According to SUGA, the answer was never really in doubt.

In a newly released one-on-one conversation with Rolling Stone published on April 16, the BTS rapper and producer spoke with striking confidence about the group’s future. Rather than treating BTS as a chapter that might someday quietly close, he described it as something far more enduring — a bond he believes can carry on for decades. In fact, SUGA said he sees the group continuing together well into old age, even imagining BTS still active in their seventies and eighties.

That vision, of course, comes with one humorous adjustment. SUGA admitted that by then, the group’s famously demanding choreography may need to be scaled back. But the deeper point was unmistakable. He was not talking about BTS as a temporary reunion or a short-lived comeback. He was talking about a lifelong connection, one strong enough to outlast youth, trends, and even the physical limits that once defined their explosive performances.

What gives him that confidence is not just history. It is the bond between the members themselves.

SUGA explained that he never gets tired of being around RM, Jin, Jimin, V, j-hope, and Jung Kook because, in his eyes, they are simply fun to be with. He described them as genuinely funny people whose company he still enjoys, and he made it clear that he sees them as family. That sense of closeness, he suggested, is not a side note in BTS’ story. It is one of the main reasons the group has survived pressures that could have easily broken others apart.

That statement carries extra weight now, because BTS has just emerged from one of the most defining periods of its career. Over the last few years, the seven members stepped away from full group activity to pursue solo work and complete their mandatory military service in South Korea. From the outside, that kind of pause could easily look like the beginning of an ending. In the global music industry, long breaks often become permanent fractures. Groups drift. Priorities shift. Reunion talk fades into nostalgia.

SUGA, however, said he never saw it that way.

When asked whether there had ever been any real possibility that BTS might split up for good after their time apart, his response was direct. Even before entering the military, he already knew they would come back together. For him, a reunion was not a hopeful fantasy or a fragile plan. It was a certainty.

He also acknowledged that this might seem surprising from an international point of view. To many outside observers, especially in Western pop culture, group hiatuses often come with suspicion. Fans are trained to expect the worst. Announcements about “time apart” can sound like the polite beginning of a breakup. But SUGA made it clear that BTS never viewed their situation through that lens. From their perspective, staying together was simply the obvious path.

That may be one of the most revealing parts of his remarks. What fans saw as uncertainty, the members themselves may have experienced as permanence. Even during a period when BTS looked temporarily fragmented, SUGA suggests the foundation never truly moved. The pause may have changed the schedule, but it did not change the core decision. They were always coming back.

Now, that return is no longer theoretical.

The group is back together and actively moving forward, with a renewed sense of momentum after years of individual detours and national duty. According to the article, BTS is currently on a global tour set to run through March 2027. The tour supports their new album ARIRANG, which has already scored its third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Those milestones send a clear message of their own. BTS is not merely reuniting for sentiment. The group is reentering the global stage at full scale, with the kind of commercial and cultural force that few acts in the world can match.

That context makes SUGA’s interview feel even more meaningful. He is not talking about endurance from a place of uncertainty or decline. He is speaking at a moment when BTS is once again proving its dominance. The group’s present success gives extra credibility to his vision of the future. This is not wishful thinking from an artist trying to hold onto the past. It is confidence coming from someone standing inside one of the most resilient groups in modern music.

Elsewhere in the interview, SUGA also touched on his own influences, naming Eminem and Kendrick Lamar as favorite rappers. It was a brief but telling moment, reminding viewers of the artist behind the BTS phenomenon — someone shaped by rap lineage, creative evolution, and years of serious musical ambition. But even with all of that individual identity, the central emotional force of the interview remained BTS itself.

That is what makes his words linger.

Fans have always celebrated BTS for its talent, discipline, and world-changing achievements. But SUGA’s comments point back to something more intimate — the idea that behind all the records, tours, and headlines, the group still works because the seven members genuinely want to keep sharing life with one another. Not just now. Not just during this comeback. For as long as they physically can.

And in an industry where time usually tears groups apart long before age ever gets the chance, that may be the most extraordinary promise BTS has made yet: not that they will stay perfect, not that they will stay young, but that they intend to stay together.