Kanye West says he is “retiring from skilled music” in textual content to Wealthy The Child
Wealthy the Child has shared a textual content allegedly from Kanye West, wherein West declares he’s strolling away from music.
On Tuesday (July 9), the ‘New Freezer’ rapper posted a textual content alternate seemingly between him and Ye, with the ‘All Falls Down’ artist explaining he was not sure what to do however cease making music.
“I’m retiring from skilled music Undecided what else to do,” Ye apparently wrote within the message.
Wealthy The Child replied and tried to dissuade him, writing again: “Retire? Why? How? The ppl NEED you the music you & Ty & we’ve got made the BIGGEST STAMP in tradition to this date in 2024. Drop Ye about mine & V2 and we do it once more the youngsters want you massive bra fasho perhaps a while to relax however retiring ain’t it.”
Ye mentioned he’s retiring from making music however he don’t know what else to do pic.twitter.com/Sd3aM52dTl
— Donda Instances (@dondatimes) July 9, 2024
He deleted the screenshot of their textual content alternate from his Instagram story shortly after, by which level accounts on Twitter/X had been already circulating it.
Followers are divided, with some taking it at face worth and others assuming it’s a advertising and marketing tactic forward of a doable new enterprise. Following up, Wealthy the Child then took to X/Twitter to say: “ACTUALLY WE DROPPING FRIDAY 7/19,” asserting his upcoming album – which notably options Ye on ‘Plaine Jane’.
Ye has formally come out of retirement! https://t.co/zp0nIgKEgj
— Ye Streams (@kanyestreams1) July 9, 2024
so is kanye west retiring or not
— path “reacts” wei 瑋 (@telepathics) July 9, 2024
Ngl if he’s retiring, ima say this and yall gon come at me loopy however standing on this, Kanye West has the best album discography within the historical past of hip hop nobody can persuade me in any other case. https://t.co/FU4dhUxpi1
— Flizz-E🇲🇼💫 (@Flizz_E44) July 9, 2024
ye not performed, if he “retire”..it’ll be a Jay-z retirement the place he’s in it, he’s round it, may do a shock verse however simply not placing out albums recurrently.
kanye is simply too beloved, he’s wanted nonetheless. artists & pals arent gonna let him “retire”. ye will all the time be round.
— JAYLIEN (@jaylienwesley) July 9, 2024
Again in 2020, West vowed to “free all artists by any means mandatory” in an ongoing tirade in opposition to the music trade that noticed him counsel new tips for recording and publishing offers and focus on contracts, masters and rights points on Twitter.
On the time, the rapper was embroiled in a authorized battle with publishing firm EMI, and had settled their lawsuit for a second time.
The rapper first sued the corporate in January 2019, and alleged that the agency, which had revealed his music since 2003, was trying to lock him right into a lifetime of “servitude”.
It was reported in 2019 that his file contract said that he may by no means retire. West and EMI went on to inform the USA District Court docket for the Southern District of New York that they’d reached an “settlement in precept” to lastly settle the swimsuit.
In the meantime, West was not too long ago sued in new lawsuit for allegedly calling staff “new slaves”.