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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKanye West is now legally known as "Ye". Yes, no kidding....
https://apnews.com/article/kanye-west-name-change-ye-7034be97e538201d789ab54a2404a960LOS ANGELES (AP) Kanye is now Ye.
A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name.
There being no objections, the petition for change of name is granted, Judge Michelle Williams Court said in court documents.
The petition filed Aug. 24 cited personal reasons.
A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name.
There being no objections, the petition for change of name is granted, Judge Michelle Williams Court said in court documents.
The petition filed Aug. 24 cited personal reasons.
Hey, if Prince can call himself "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" with that symbol ?
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Kanye West is now legally known as "Ye". Yes, no kidding.... (Original Post)
steve2470
Oct 2021
OP
I believe it's pronounced YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Or Yeezlie. Some permutation thereof. n/t
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2021
#11
elias7
(3,997 posts)1. How would that be pronounced?
Yay, as in Kan-ye?
Yee, as in ye olde merry gentlemen?
Yeh, as ye-ti, yet, or yellow?
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)6. Abandon hope all yay who enter here.
Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)11. I believe it's pronounced YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Or Yeezlie. Some permutation thereof. n/t
lastlib
(23,214 posts)12. with your hand over your mouth...............
why does anybody give a flying fig about that self-absorbed idjit?? Beyond me.
walkingman
(7,597 posts)2. Wow, Great news!!
no_hypocrisy
(46,081 posts)3. Meh . . . . Just another Puff Daddy identity crisis.
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)4. Prince was immensely talented, a good guy, and a genuinely caring mentor to other performers.
Some may think so of Kanye. I'm not one of them.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)5. God rest Ye, merry gentleman.
JI7
(89,247 posts)7. People have been referring to him as Ye for a while now
I thought they were making fun of him but I guess it's what he actually wanted to be called.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. Ye Olde Rapper
Dude's just asking for it.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)9. Rhymes with Meh
hunter
(38,310 posts)10. Ye's no Prince...
... but if Ye says they are Ye now then they are Ye.
CrackityJones75
(2,403 posts)13. Please never mention Prince and whatever the fuck
Please never mention Prince and whatever the fuck that dipshit wants to call himself in the same breath.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)14. Should this be news or coffee talk?
Goonch
(3,607 posts)15. ;-{)🖖
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)16. I would have guessed he had made himself a de Medici
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,130 posts)17. Who cares?