Rapper formerly known as Kanye West is now just Ye

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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020, record photo, Kanye West arrives astatine the Vanity Fair Oscar Party successful Beverly Hills, Calif. On Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, a Los Angeles justice approved the petition of the rapper, shaper and manner decorator to legally alteration his sanction to conscionable Ye, spelled Y-E, with nary mediate oregon past name. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Posted at 8:36 PM, Oct 18, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-18 21:36:15-04

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye West is present known lone arsenic Ye.

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

The 44-year-old petitioned the tribunal connected Aug. 24, citing “personal reasons” for the change.

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.”