Kanye West Legally Changes His Name To Just ‘Ye’
Since bursting onto the scene as a baby-faced rhymer from the Chicago suburbs in the early 2000s, through to his highly-publicised, tumultuous post-808s & Heartbreak era, Kanye West has always been the rap game’s enigma.
He pioneered a sound which defined a generation, and greatly influenced the one coming through today. With rappers such as Drake, Kid Cudi, Playboi Carti, & Juice Wrld (just to name a few) citing Kanye as their main inspiration in rap, his status as one of the greats is also without discussion.
Throughout his storied career, Kanye also has many self-anointed monikers, from K-Rock, the Louis Vuitton Don, Yeezy, to simply Pablo. So when he announced three years ago that he was changing his legal name to Ye, fans largely took it with a pinch of salt.
Well the proof is…
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