Kanye simply needs to be Ye.
Kanye West filed court docket paperwork Tuesday to legally change his identify.
The Los Angeles Superior Courtroom submitting says the 44-year-old needs to eliminate his full identify — Kanye Omari West — in favour of simply his longtime two-letter nickname, Ye, with no center identify or final identify.
The paperwork, dated Aug. 11 however not despatched into the court docket system till Tuesday, cite “personal reasons” for the change. An electronic mail searching for remark from the lawyer who filed the paperwork was not instantly returned.
A decide should approve of the change earlier than it turns into official.
West, who has known as himself Ye on his social media pages for years, tweeted that he needed the change in 2018, saying, “the being formally known as Kanye West. I am YE.”
The moniker was additionally the title of his 2018 album. He has stated in interviews that, together with being a shortening of his first identify he likes, that it’s a phrase used all through the Bible.
West is in the midst of a divorce with Kim Kardashian West, who didn’t ask that her final identify be modified again to only Kardashian when she filed to separate from him in February. The couple’s 4 kids even have his final identify.
He has been holding a sequence of stadium listening events for his forthcoming 10th studio album Donda, which is scheduled to be launched earlier than the top of August.
