Baby Keem has opened up about his reasons for pausing his music career for five years following the release of debut album, The Melodic Blue . Keem, who released his sophomore album, CA$INO , in February, revealed to Highsnobiety that a past ailment caused him to take a break from music just as he was getting started on a mainstream level. "I’ll never be super public about what it was because I don't want that to be the narrative," the 25-year-old explained. "Going through that was the hardest setback for me. You have all these [moments] where you're like, 'Damn, I really won’t make music ever again.'" Keem added that he deactivated his X account to avoid seeing unwarranted opinions about his disappearance and demands for a new album. "I didn’t need to see people telling me to release when I physically could not make music for a year," he said. "I had to learn how to do it again.…