By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES: Kanye is now Ye.
A Los Angeles decide on Monday authorized the request of the rapper, producer and designer to legally change his identify from Kanye Omari West to simply Ye, with no center or final identify.
“There being no objections, the petition for change of name is granted,” Judge Michelle Williams Court mentioned in courtroom paperwork.
The petition filed Aug. 24 cited “private causes.”
He has referred to as himself Ye on his social media pages for years. He tweeted in 2018 that he needed the change saying, “the being formally known as Kanye West. I am YE.”
The moniker was additionally the title of his 2018 album. He has mentioned in interviews that, together with being a shortening of his first identify he likes, that it is a phrase used all through the Bible.
The 44-year-old is in the course of a divorce with Kim Kardashian West, who didn’t ask that her final identify be modified again to simply Kardashian when she filed to separate from him in February. The couple’s 4 youngsters even have his former final identify.
