Rich The Kid Shares Text From Kanye West Saying He’s Retiring
Rich The Kid shocked followers this week when he shared a textual content of Kanye West asserting his retirement from music – however it might not really be true.
In a since-deleted screenshot to Rich’s Instagram Story on Tuesday (July 9), Ye wrote, “I am retiring from professional music. Not sure what else to do.”
Rich goes on to attempt to persuade him to remain, writing: “Retire? Why? How ? The ppl NEED you the music you & Ty & we have made was the BIGGEST STAMP in culture to this date in 2024. Drop Ye about mine & V[ultures]2 and we do it all over again the kids need you big bra fasho maybe some time to chill but retiring ain’t it.”
He quickly deleted it, nevertheless, then headed to X to advertise his new album Life’s A Gamble – which each Ye and Ty Dolla $ign are the chief producers of.
“ACTUALLY WE DROPPING FRIDAY 7/19,” he wrote with laughing emojis in response to a publish from XXL that shared Ye’s retirement textual content. He added the album’s tracklist in his reply, which incorporates options from Peso Pluma, Offset, Rob49, French Montana, Chief Keef, BIA, the late TakeOff and Quavo – in addition to Ye and Ty.
“Carnival” from Ye and Ty’s VULTURES album can also be included.
Kanye says he is “retiring from professional music” in textual content message with Rich The Kid pic.twitter.com/3Cb2ILAqCK
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) July 9, 2024
ACTUALLY WE DROPPING FRIDAY 7/19 https://t.co/OhbZHLXeYdpic.twitter.com/RjFzpGvhQ6
— Rich The Kid (@richthekid) July 9, 2024
Rich The Kid introduced Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign as his new album’s EPs again in March as he celebrated going No. 1 alongside the pair for the VULTURES reduce “Carnival,” which additionally options Playboi Carti.
“# 1 on billboard with family @ye @tydollasign & @playboicarti,” he wrote with a screenshot of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “Thank you to all the fans, my family that always support love! #V2 & My [new] album exec prod. by Ye & Ty$ OTW”
He first introduced Life’s A Gamble again in January with an unspecified launch date of Spring 2024.
At the time, Kanye was reported to be a featured visitor, in addition to Offset, Travis Barker and Rob49.
The LP will likely be Rich’s first album in 4 years. His final effort, Boss Man, dropped in March 2020. Lil Baby, DaBaby, Nicki Minaj, Post Malone, Lil Tjay, NBA YoungBoy, Quavo and extra made appearances, however the undertaking didn’t make an enormous splash and shortly dropped off the charts following a No. 24 debut on the Billboard 200.