Kanye West has succeeded in legally changing his name to just “Ye,” thanks to a Monday order from a California state court that granted formal approval to the star’s short new name.
In an interview shortly after the album’s release, he said “Ye” was a reference to a biblical term for “you.” In a later tweet, he wrote “Who or what is Kanye West with no ego? Just Ye."
Though notable because of Kanye's involvement, Monday's approval was largely a legal formality. Petitions to change a name in California are only rarely rejected, according to the state court system's website. Rejections usually happen in cases where a court determines that the switch is being made to commit fraud, hide from law enforcement, or for some other illegal purpose.
One odd-sounding requirement is that petitioners like Kanye must publish their proposed name change in a newspaper, with the aim of allowing anyone who would be harmed by the change to object. Court records show that Kanye published such a notice in, a Los Angeles-based publication, on four separate occasions over the course of September.
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