UPDATE — 6/16/25 at 4:47 p.m. ET: Kanye West is sticking with his initial name change to Ye. “There is no ‘Ye Ye,’” West’s rep said in a statement to Us Weekly on Monday, June 16 ...

Kanye West—who legally changed his name from Kanye Omari West to Ye in 2018—is now going by the moniker Ye Ye in business documents filed in California.

Kanye West's most recent name change might not be a name change at all. The Gold Digger rapper had his name listed as "Ye Ye" on official business documents filed by his chief financial officer ...

In 2009, West -- to promote a sneaker line -- said he'd change his name to Martin Louis the King Jr. And in 2006, he posed for Rolling Stone with a crown of thorns and compared himself to Jesus.

The Los Angeles Superior Court filing says the 44-year-old rapper wants to get rid of his full name — Kanye Omari West — in favor of just his longtime two-letter nickname, Ye, with no middle ...

Kanye West raised eyebrows when it seemed like the rapper was one again legally changing his name, from Ye to Ye Ye, but the rapper’s rep set the record straight on how the confusion occurred.

Kim Kardashian declares Kanye West’s personality has ‘changed’ in trailer for intimate new documentary - ‘In Whose Name?’ ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye West just wants to be Ye. West filed court documents Tuesday to legally change his name. The Los Angeles Superior Court filing says the 44-year-old rapper wants to get ...