{"id":92436,"date":"2024-07-11T06:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/kanye-west-is-retiring-from-professional-music-claims-rapper-rich-the-kid\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T06:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:52:28","slug":"kanye-west-is-retiring-from-professional-music-claims-rapper-rich-the-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/kanye-west-is-retiring-from-professional-music-claims-rapper-rich-the-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Is Retiring From Professional Music, Claims Rapper Rich The Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-07\/6qcq6h9_-kanye_625x300_11_July_24.jpeg?resize=1200,738&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kanye West Is Retiring From Professional Music, Claims Rapper Rich The Kid\" title=\"Kanye West Is Retiring From Professional Music, Claims Rapper Rich The Kid\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Kanye West has not made any official announcement yet. (Image courtesy: IANS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Mumbai: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rapper-producer Rich the Kid has said that Kanye West is retiring from music, though it&#8217;s unclear what exactly that entails or if the decision is final. According to a since-deleted screenshot of a text exchange posted by Rich the Kid from West: &#8220;I am retiring from professional music.&#8221; The reason behind the decision, the musician hinted, is that he&#8217;s &#8220;not sure what else to do&#8221; as far as music goes, reports People.com. However, Rich the Kid replied: &#8220;Retire? Why? How? The ppl NEED you the music you and Ty and we have made was the BIGGEST STAMP in culture to this date in 2024. Drop Ye about mine &amp; V@ and we do it all over again the kids need you big&#8230;. maybe some time to chill but retiring ain&#8217;t it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after he posted the screenshotted-texts, Rich the Kid announced on X that he&#8217;s dropping new music with West featured on his forthcoming album, Life&#8217;s a Gamble. &#8220;WE DROPPING FRIDAY 7\/19,&#8221; he wrote, confirming the project&#8217;s release date.<\/p>\n<p>According to the album&#8217;s tracklist, there&#8217;s an upcoming collaboration with West titled <i>Plain Jane<\/i>, also the already-released single &#8216;Gimme a Second 2&#8217; featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Peso Pluma.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the track <i>Carnival<\/i> with Playboi Carti and Ty Dolla $ign, 42, that was featured on the latter&#8217;s collaborative Vultures 1 album with West, which dropped in February. It peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the following month.<\/p>\n<p>West&#8217;s retirement announcement comes weeks after he and Ty Dolla $ign were slated to release their sequel project, <i>Vultures 2<\/i>. According to an Instagram post shared by Ty Dolla $ign, the duo are next set to bring their Vultures listening experience to Korea on Friday, August 23.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s unclear if they&#8217;ll perform their follow-up project, which still doesn&#8217;t have a confirmed release date.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/entertainment\/rapper-rich-the-kid-claims-kanye-west-is-retiring-from-professional-music-6080719#publisher=newsstand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West has not made any official announcement yet. (Image courtesy: IANS) Mumbai: Rapper-producer Rich the Kid has said that Kanye West is retiring from music, though it&#8217;s unclear what exactly that entails or if the decision is final. According to a since-deleted screenshot of a text exchange posted by Rich the Kid from West: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-07\/6qcq6h9_-kanye_625x300_11_July_24.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619],"tags":[4811,32872,79055,2167,1224,3951,8948,79056,28417,1354,6501],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92438,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92436\/revisions\/92438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}