It adds that the ‘Stronger’ rapper ‘didn’t take the decision to change his name’ lightly and is ‘potentially sacrificing some of the immense value captured’ by his name.
This isn’t the only time West’s name change has been brought up.
West’s petition to legally change his name to his mononym Ye was approved in a Los Angeles court in 2021, as reported by TMZ. He no longer has a middle name either.
The rapper’s name has since been used interchangeably by the media, but Yiannopoulos wants that to stop.
Yiannopoulos explains that he is reaching out to ‘streaming platforms, publishers, stores, unions, lyrics websites and data resellers’ to enforce the change because they are some of ‘the most visible places’
The rapper previously spoke of the name change during a radio interview with BigBoyTV, explaining: “I believe ‘ye’ is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means you. So I’m you, I’m us, it’s us.”The artist said his name ‘went from Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye – just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, everything’.
Following the release of West’s 2018 eponymous album, ‘Ye’, he teased his new name on X, formerly Twitter, writing that he was ‘the being formally known as Kanye West’.
He concluded: “I am YE.”
