Rapper formerly known as Kanye West is now just Ye

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye is present Ye.

A Los Angeles justice connected Monday approved the petition of the rapper, shaper and manner decorator to legally alteration his sanction from Kanye Omari West to conscionable Ye, with nary mediate oregon past name.

“There being nary objections, the petition for alteration of sanction is granted,” Judge Michelle Williams Court said successful tribunal documents.

The petition filed Aug. 24 cited “personal reasons.”

He has called himself Ye connected his societal media pages for years. He tweeted successful 2018 that helium wanted the alteration saying, “the being formally known arsenic Kanye West. I americium YE.”

The moniker was besides the rubric of his 2018 album. He has said successful interviews that, on with being a shortening of his archetypal sanction helium likes, that it’s a connection utilized passim the Bible.

The 44-year-old is successful the mediate of a divorcement with Kim Kardashian West, who did not inquire that her past sanction beryllium changed backmost to conscionable Kardashian erstwhile she filed to divided from him successful February. The couple’s 4 children besides person his erstwhile past name.