Kanye West to “taking a year off from music”

American rapper, Kanye West is reportedly taking a break away from the music industry temporarily.

, one of his collaborators recently has claimed.

When interviewed by Complex Magazine, the rapper Vory who worked with West on his song Daylight revealed that the 45-year-old hip hop icon is taking a year off music.

Vory said, “I was just talking to [Kanye] today. We’ve been talking through my best friend who’s also his assistant, because he hasn’t been wanting to talk to anybody.

“He’s taking a year off, and he was like, ‘Damn, you think Vory is going to be mad at me if I don’t go to his release party?’ And I was like, Nah, you’re straight, bro.

“He’s battling his own s***, ‘That’s my dog, I learned a lot from him.

Around the same time as the Vory interview, news broke that the rapper had broken up with his girlfriend, Chaney Jones.

TMZ revealed that Kanye and the 24-year-old Instagram model split after a trip to Japan.