Kanye West Asks Music Industry to Strictly Refer to Him as Ye

Kanye West is asking main gamers within the music trade to respect his resolution to go by his legally modified identify “Ye” … TMZ has discovered.

In a letter obtained by TMZ … Kanye’s chief of employees, Milo Yiannopoulos, fires off a robust message to massive gamers within the music trade — together with streamers, publishers, lyric web sites and extra — with a requirement that the rapper be known as Ye shifting ahead.

As Milo places it … Kanye did not come to the choice to vary 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 name” and desires to ditch the moniker throughout all platforms.

He provides … “Ye is a Black man in America who wants the right to full self-determination just like everyone else.”

Keep in mind … Kanye officially changed his name to Ye again in October 2021. The artist had a decide log out on him adopting his longtime nickname as his authorized moniker years after talking in favor of the identify’s Biblical ties.

Kanye instructed radio host Big 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 vary their identify … as Diddy, Snoop Dogg, Prince, Bow Wow and Ke$ha have all switched up their public personas previously.