LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kanye just wants to be Ye.
Kanye West filed court documents on Tuesday to legally change his name.
The Los Angeles Superior Court filing said the 44-year-old wants to get rid of his full name – Kanye Omari West – in favour of just his longtime two-letter nickname, Ye, with no middle name or last name.
The documents, dated August 11 but not sent into the court system until Tuesday, cite “personal reasons” for the change. An email seeking comment from the attorney who filed the documents was not immediately returned.
A judge must approve of the change before it becomes official.
West, who has called himself Ye on his social media pages for years, tweeted that he wanted the change in 2018, saying, “the being formally known as Kanye West. I am YE.”
