Los Angeles: Kanye West has changed his name to Ye. A Los Angeles Superior Court communications officer told AFP on Monday that the 44-year-name old’s change request had been granted. In August, the mercurial performer submitted the request, citing “personal reasons.”
Because of the name change, the Grammy-winning rapper and producer no longer has a middle or last name. Kanye Omari West was his previous full name. Ye released an album with the same name in 2018, a moniker he’d used as a nickname for a long time.
“I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means you. So it’s I’m you, I’m us, it’s us,” he said that year in a radio interview.
After his nearly decade-long spouse, Kim Kardashian, filed for divorce earlier this year, the spotlight has suddenly shifted to Ye’s personal life rather than his art. Their relationship had been beset by allegations of marital problems for months before the news broke. Ye ran for president last year, but it was an improbable and ultimately unsuccessful campaign.
