Kanye West just changed his name, Prince-style Notable hip-hop artist Kanye West has just changed his name, much in the style of late music icon Prince \u2013 or, rather, \u2018The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.\u2019 Kanye revealed the change in a Tweet, which stated that he wishes to be known as \u2018Ye\u2019 henceforth. \u201cThe being formally known as Kanye West,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI am YE.\u201d The change shouldn\u2019t come as too great of a surprise, as the rapper has used the title as a nickname for years, and even named one of his albums after the term in June. While the presentation of Ye\u2019s name change was a very obvious nod to Prince\u2019s similar change of title, no other reasons for the switch have yet been revealed. His Twitter handle has since reflected the change in kind, as well as his Instagram account, to boot. This change comes just before the release of Ye\u2019s newest album, \u2018Yandhi,\u2019 which is to be released alongside his appearance on late night show Saturday Night Live. Ye\u2019s presentation on SNL follows Ariana Grande\u2019s declination of an appearance on the program due to \u201cemotional reasons,\u201d following the death of her ex-boyfriend, Mac Miller. While Ye will appear as a musical guest on the show and will likely debut a new song from the album, he is also set to appear in one of SNL\u2019s renowned comedy sketches, headed by Star Wars actor Adam Driver. \u2018Yandhi\u2018 follows Lil Wayne\u2019s long-awaited album \u2018Tha Carter V,\u2019 which just released after five years in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kanye West just changed his name, Prince-style Notable hip-hop artist Kanye West has just changed his name, much in the style of late music icon Prince \u2013 or, rather, \u2018The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.\u2019 Kanye revealed the change in a Tweet, which stated that he wishes to be known as \u2018Ye\u2019 henceforth. \u201cThe being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}