Kanye West and Jay Z ‘planning new collaboration after mending their friendship’

Here’s a sentence we never expected to write: Kanye West and Jay Z are reportedly planning another collaboration.

According to reports, the two rappers have managed to put their differences behind them after an apparent fall out last year, and insiders now say new music could be on the way as the pair are in talks to team up for a duet.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Kanye is over the moon to have his ‘family’ back. He is starting to feel like himself again, knowing he has the support of Jay and Beyoncé.

“Some new tracks would be fascinating given what Kanye has been through over the past year. But under the watchful eye of his mentor and ‘big bro’ Jay, it would be huge.”

This comes just days after Kanye and his wife Kim Kardashian were spotted at Jay Z and Beyoncé’s home in Los Angeles and months after the ‘Famous’ rapper – who was hospitalised after allegedly suffering a ‘psychotic breakdown’ in November – hit out at the 46-year-old producer for not visiting his family after Kim’s terrifying robbery ordeal.

During an onstage rant at one his Saint Pablo concerts in October, Kanye fumed: “Don’t call me, after the robbery, and say, ‘How you feelin?’ You wanna know how I’m feelin? Come by the house.

“Bring the kids by the house like we’re brothers. Let’s sit down. I can’t take this s*** bro. Our kids have never even played together.”

The powerhouse pair – who have collaborated together on numerous occasions in the past (most notably on their 2011 album ‘Watch The Throne’) – faced further conflicts over Jay Z’s streaming service Tidal, and Apple Music, which has a close relationship with Drake.

Launching into Drake’s song ‘Pop Style’, on which he originally had a verse, Kanye told the audience at his Seattle gig: “Let me tell y’all something. There will never be a ‘Watch The Throne 2’. That’s the reason I wasn’t on this song.

“I wasn’t on the song cause of Hov. ‘Cause of some Tidal/Apple bulls***. And that s*** be getting me tight every time I perform this motherf*****.

“I start freestylin’ to it. Jay thought of a couple lines, I said, ‘Man, just go ahead and throw that on there, [Drake] would be so surprised he probably wouldn’t expect you to be on there. And we sent it back to him. And he was like, ‘Oh s***, the Throne is on this s***.’

“Then Jay thought about it, and out of respect for Meek Mill he didn’t want to be on the track. And I said, ‘Look, I’ll call Drake, I’ll call Meek, I’ll call y’all, we gotta squash this s***, we gotta let people have this song.’ But then it went into some political s***, some s*** about percentages on songs.”

So that’s that then…