Nationwide — Kanye West has legally modified his identify for the second time. After changing into “Ye” in 2021, new enterprise paperwork filed in California now present his identify as “Ye Ye.”
Based on The U.S. Sun, the up to date identify seems in filings submitted by his CFO, Hussain Lalani, to the California Secretary of State. Certainly one of West’s foremost corporations, Ox Paha Inc., which manages his emblems, now formally lists him as “Ye Ye.” Different associated companies, together with Yeezy Attire and his music corporations, have additionally up to date his identify throughout paperwork.
West hasn’t posted in regards to the new identify but. His final name-related replace got here on June 1, when he posted on X (previously Twitter) that he was leaving his @kanyewest deal with as a result of he now goes by Ye. He mentioned, “Ima lastly cease utilizing the @kanyewest twitter trigger my identify is Ye… Gonna begin a ye account and it’s what it’s.”
Again in 2018, West first shared he was dropping “Kanye” and most well-liked “Ye,” which was additionally the identify of his 2018 album. He later filed official paperwork in 2021 and had the identify change legally accepted by a decide.
In 2024, his chief of employees Milo Yiannopoulos despatched letters to corporations asking them to cease utilizing the identify “Kanye West” altogether. His employees has emphasised that “Ye” displays his id and referred to as on platforms to replace his identify in all places, rejecting his delivery identify as a “slave identify.”
