Kanye West files to legally change his name to Ye citing ‘personal reasons’… amid divorce from Kim Kardashian

Kanye West has filed to have his name legally changed to Ye.

A lawyer for the rapper filed a peтιтion to change Kanye’s name from his birth name of Kanye Omari West to Ye, according to The Blast.

Kanye, 44, cited ‘personal’ reasons behind his decision to change his name in legal documents, however did not provide any other details.

The rapper, who has used the moniker as a nickname for years, named his eighth studio album Ye and even goes by the abbreviated тιтle on Twitter.

The filing was done in Los Angeles, according to TMZ, which claimed Kanye’s request would be approved by a judge considering the rules surrounding name changes in the state of California. Judges ordinarily approve name changes so long as no evidence exists that the new moniker will be used to commit fraud.

The legal filing may not come as a surprise to die hard Kanye fans, who will probably remember the rapper wanting to be referred to as Ye back in 2018.

‘I believe “ye” is the most commonly used word in the Bible, and in the Bible it means “you,”‘ he told radio host Big Boy.

‘So I’m you, I’m us, it’s us. It went from Kanye, which means the only one, to just Ye – just being a reflection of our good, our bad, our confused, everything. The album is more of a reflection of who we are.’

The name change comes just days before the release of Kanye’s next album Donda on Friday, August 27.

Kanye has held two listening events for the album at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, both to mᴀssive numbers, with respective totals of 3.3 million and 5.4 million people streaming the events on Apple Music.

The rapper will be holding another listening party at Soldier Field in his hometown of Chicago on Thursday, and pH๏τos posted on Twitter suggest Kanye is having a replica of his childhood home built on stage for the event.

Kanye’s estranged wife Kim Kardashian listened to an incarnation of the album as she was seen driving in a clip on Instagram Stories this weekend, with the track names reading, Donda MIX TEST.06_06.

Kim Kardashian, 40, who shares four kids with West – daughters North, eight, and Chicago, three, and sons Saint, five, and Psalm, two – remains ‘on great terms’ with the musical artist about six months after she filed for divorce this past February, a source recently told Entertainment Tonight.

‘Although they are going through a divorce, the couple still spend time together alone, or with their kids,’ the insider told the outlet. ‘Kanye lives mostly out of LA, but when he’s in town they make it a priority to meet up.

‘Kim has had the children lately since Kanye has been working on the album … but co-parenting has been going well for the couple.’