Kanye West wants to now be called ‘Ye’
NEW YORK: Kanye West has decided that he now wants to be called Ye. But on political matters, nothing has changed for the pro-donald Trump rapper.
“The being formally (sic) known as Kanye West. I am Ye,” he wrote on Twitter.
Ye has long been a nickname for West, along with Yeezy, and he chose “Ye” as the title of his last album.
He has previously said that he found a spiritual significance to “Ye” — the plural or formal ver- sion of the second-person pronoun in Middle English — as he so frequently read it in the Bible.
West — or, rather, Ye — announced the name change shortly before he appeared on Saturday Night Live.
West closed the show by singing a track off the album Ye while wearing one of US President Donald Trump’s signature red Make America Great Again caps.
After the live show, West gave an impromptu speech about politics, voicing support for Trump.
“So many times I talk to a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist,’“West said.
“Well, if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago.”
He also accused the rival Democratic Party of seeking to keep people dependent on welfare payments and repeated his interest in running for president himself in 2020 — when Trump would face re-election.