American billionaire and rap artiste, Kanye West is no more.
Gatekeepers News reports that American billionaire and rap artiste, formerly known as Kanye West, is now officially “Ye”.
Judge Michelle Williams Court signed off on the rapper’s petition for the name change.
The petition was filed on August 24, 2021, with the musician citing “personal reasons” for the change with no further explanation.
Ye released an album by the same name in 2018, although it was used as a common shortening of his stage name prior to the project’s release.
Ye in an interview with radio host Big Boy, said, “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.
“It went from being Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, our everything.”
Singer and musician, Prince Rogers Nelson then at the height of his fame, chose to remove his name and instead go by either a symbol or ‘The Artist Formerly Known As Prince’ usually simply shortened to ‘The Artist’.
“The first step I have taken towards the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Brothers was to change my name from Prince to (symbol),” Prince once explained in a press statement.
