Kanye West is asking main gamers within the music business to respect his choice to go by his legally modified identify “Ye” … TMZ has realized.
In a letter obtained by TMZ … Kanye’s chief of employees, Milo Yiannopoulos, fires off a powerful message to massive gamers within the music business — together with streamers, publishers, lyric web sites and extra — with a requirement that the rapper be known as Ye transferring ahead.
As Milo places it … Kanye did not come to the choice to alter his identify frivolously, as he’s conscious he is sacrificing model worth that comes with “Kanye West.” Nonetheless … the Grammy winner considers it a “slave identify” and needs to ditch the moniker throughout all platforms.
He provides … “Ye is a Black man in America who needs the fitting to full self-determination similar to everybody else.”
Bear in mind … Kanye formally modified his identify to Ye again in October 2021. The artist had a choose log off on him adopting his longtime nickname as his authorized moniker years after talking in favor of the identify’s Biblical ties.
Kanye advised radio host Large Boy in 2018 that he most popular Ye because it was essentially the most generally used phrase within the Bible — which wasn’t really an correct assertion, FWIW.
Nonetheless, Ye is not the primary artist to alter their identify … as Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Prince, Bow Wow and Ke$ha have all switched up their public personas previously.
Will the music biz observe Ye’s orders? To Ye, or to not Ye, that’s the query.
