Kanye West RETIRING from 'professional' music according to an alleged text exchange with Rich The Kid

After 10 workplace albums and 24 Grammy wins, Kanye West is allegedly retiring from 'professional music.'

News of nan Flashing Lights hitmaker's, 47, daze status plans were revealed successful an alleged matter connection speech pinch rapper Rich The Kid.

Rich The Kid, 31, uploaded a screenshot to his Instagram Story of messages he'd received from an iPhone contact nether nan sanction 'Ye.'

The matter from a personification believed to beryllium West — who legally changed his name from Kanye West to Ye successful 2021 — read: 'I'm retiring from master music. Not judge what other to do'

Rich past tried to person nan father-of-four to reconsider his decision, moreover bringing up nan caller occurrence of his Vultures 1 medium pinch rapper Ty Dolla $ign.

'Retire? Why ? How ? The [people] NEED you nan euphony you & Ty & we person made was nan BIGGEST STAMP successful civilization to this day In 2024,' he wrote.

Rich was notably featured connected West and Ty's lead single Carnival, which topped nan Billboard Hot 100 floor plan erstwhile it debuted successful March.

The opus besides marked West's first #1 deed successful 13 years - his past being Katy Perry's 2011 azygous E.T.

'Drop Ye astir excavation & V2 and we do it each complete again,' Rich continued. 'the kids request you large bra fasho possibly immoderate clip to chill bargain retiring ain't it.'

After news of Ye's status gained traction online, Rich went connected to delete nan screenshot from his Instagram Story.

This sparked instrumentality speculation that he whitethorn person made nan station to operation up publicity for his upcoming album, Life's A Gamble.

As conscionable hours later, Rich returned to Instagram to uncover nan merchandise date as good arsenic a peek astatine nan way database that includes a caller opus pinch West.

West — who is rumored to person produced Life's A Gamble pinch collaborator Ty Dolla $ign — will beryllium featured connected way 16, titled Plain Jane. Rich's medium besides lists Carnival arsenic nan album's closing track.

'LIFES A GAMBLE 7/19' Rich captioned nan post, while besides giving his astir 12million followers a look astatine nan medium artwork. 

Fans took to nan remark conception to sound their vexation and confusion, pinch 1 writing: 'Long communicative short y'all lied for promotion?'

Many wanted to cognize 'why' Rich had deleted nan texts astir 'ye retiring.'

West released his first-ever rap EP Get Well Soon... successful December 2002 done Jay-Z now-defunct grounds label Roc-A-Fella Records.

His released his critically-acclaimed debut album, College Dropout, little than 2 years later successful February 2004.

Since bursting onto nan rap segment complete 20 years ago, West has sold an unthinkable 160million records worldwide and is simply a 24-time Grammy Award winner.

He has 2 Diamond certified songs — 2007's Stronger and 2011's N***as successful Paris featuring Jay-Z — and each 10 of his albums person been astatine slightest certified Gold.

His 10th workplace album, Vultures 1, went consecutive to No.1 erstwhile it was released successful February 2024.

It was done successful collaboration with Ty Dolla Sign arsenic their hep hop duo ¥$.

West antecedently teased that a follow-up album, Vultures 2, is successful nan works.

The chatter astir West's alleged philharmonic status comes amid a slew of ineligible woes for nan rapper - mostly relating to his crumbling Yeezy empire.

Just past week, a caller bombshell suit accused West and his caller woman Bianca Censori, 29, of sending porn to unit members - including minors - astatine Yeezy.

A national suit revenge successful California claimed that Censori, 29, sent an worker a nexus to 'hardcore' intersexual contented aft her hubby announced nan motorboat of his big movie business, Yeezy Porn, successful precocious April.

It alleged that nan videos were accessible to underage staffers, but did not sanction her arsenic a suspect successful nan suit - simply utilizing nan communicative to exemplify nan activity situation astatine nan YZYVSN streaming work app.

Censori has since denied nan claims via West's erstwhile main of staff, Milo Yiannopoulos, who told DailyMail.com he had support to speak connected her behalf.

'I've been authorized by Bianca to accent that immoderate allegation that she showed aliases caused to beryllium shown immoderate pornographic worldly to minors is offensive, disgusting, abhorrent and categorically and wholly false,' nan connection says.

The 39-year-old British commentator went connected successful his connection Monday to disregard nan allegations against him successful nan national lawsuit, which accuses him and Ye of engaging successful 'forced labour and sadistic inhuman, aliases degrading treatment.'

Yiannopoulos slammed nan claims, saying it 'takes much imaginative leaps than The Lord of nan Rings,' and claiming it was revenge by a man who had nary authority astatine YZYVSN.

'The tragic, desperate, attention-seeking wannabee Yeezy staffer down this egregious and repulsive battalion of lies, Shemar DaCosta, has ne'er had immoderate benignant of entree to Ye, his family, aliases Yeezy, aliases immoderate accusation pertinent to nan company, and he ne'er will,' Yiannopoulos said.

'DaCosta, known arsenic 'Hotep Susan' successful Yeezy circles for his histrionic and absurd race-baiting, faked an full occupation history astatine Yeezy connected his LinkedIn profile—the astir tragic and thirsty dishonesty imaginable.

'He claimed to beryllium a lead developer for Yeezy. He has ne'er worked astatine Yeezy. Read my lips: He will never, ever, ever onshore a occupation astatine nan institution aft telling specified odious lies astir nan Lady of nan House.

'There's a elemental logic DaCosta's clownish claim—that minors were shown Yeezy Porn—isn't existent and can't beryllium true. Yeezy Porn doesn't exist.

'I made judge of that by falling connected my beard and quitting complete it.

'All I've done since is effort to get these app developers paid, arsenic voluminous correspondence demonstrates,' he continued - defending himself from claims that developers went unpaid for their work.

'Anyone asserting otherwise, including galore successful nan press, are lazy aliases simply dishonest buffoons uncritically repeating mendacious lies from a suit that takes much imaginative leaps than The Lord of nan Rings.'

He went connected to deed retired astatine nan claims that he segregated labor by race, and named Discord chat rooms 'slaves' and 'new slaves.'

'Secret achromatic chat rooms? No, nan different squad conscionable hustled harder than you did,' nan erstwhile Yeezy main of unit said of DaCosta.

'Hostile moving environment? How tin that be? You were ne'er hired. Minors moving illegally? Give maine a break.

'The only minors being taken advantage of are nan mediocre suckers roped into this lawsuit, who person nary thought what a battalion of lies their names person been attached to,' he claimed.

'If anyone's taking advantage of kids, it's Shemar DaCosta and his bozo Instagram lawyer Ben Lockyer, whose area of ineligible expertise appears to beryllium credulous African Americans pinch dubious causes of action,' Yiannopoulos concluded.

'Both of them should beryllium ashamed of themselves. And if they're not now, they soon will be.'

Yiannopoulos besides included posts from X that he said backs his claims that nan suit is frivolous.

Several wrote that Yiannopoulos is trying to get nan app developers paid, pinch 1 man who identified himself arsenic a 'Yeezy developer waiting to get paid' saying Yiannopoulos has been nan only (ex)employee trying to get america paid by doing everything he tin and more.'

'This suit has only made things acold worse for everyone,' nan station said.

Another, who identifies himself arsenic nan lead developer for nan app, agreed.

'So past suing him [because you] didn’t get offered a occupation by them aliases dress up different lies is crazy,' he wrote.

The suit alleges that West and Yiannopoulos hired an world developer group comprised of respective achromatic members, galore of whom were underage, pinch immoderate arsenic young arsenic 14.

They past fostered an allegedly racist moving situation and many times made mendacious promises astir costs and moving hours.

It claims that Yiannopoulos promised nan developer group $120,000 if they completed nan app, agreed to nan activity conditions and didn't complain.

But Ye past allegedly ordered each of nan labor to motion NDAs and threatened to occurrence nan minors if they didn't.

The duo besides allegedly required minors to motion 'volunteer' agreements.

From past on, Ye's achromatic managers reportedly utilized disparaging and racist connection to create a dispute moving environment.

They reportedly harassed squad members connected nan ground of their age, race, gender, intersexual predisposition and nationalist origin.

The workers were besides reportedly forced to activity done nan nighttime without salary aliases sleep.

If they did not work together pinch nan agelong activity hours without breaks, nan plaintiffs were allegedly threatened pinch having their salary withheld.

But moreover aft nan squad allegedly vanished 1 of nan apps connected May 1 and sent it to Ye, nan suit claims he did not salary them - starring them to record nan suit asking for damages for unpaid wages and overtime pay, arsenic good arsenic affectional distress.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to West for comment.