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Kanye West Legally Changes Name To Ye

MIAMI, FL – DECEMBER 05: Kanye West speaks at Surface Magazine’s DesignDialogues No. 6 With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kanye West And Jacques Herzog at Moore Building on December 5, 2013 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Surface Magazine)

|Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Surface Magazine

Kanye West is now officially Ye. As TMZ reports, a judge has approved his petition to change his legal name to simply Ye -- no middle name, no last name. He filed the paperwork with the courts back in August. Previously, Ye was known as Kanye Omari West. Now, I guess, it is just Ye.

In other Ye news, he gave his first live performance in three years at Alexandre Arnault and Geralde Guyot’s wedding in Venice over the weekend. He performed "Runaway," "Flashing Lights," and a couple songs from Donda. He wore a mask (not that kind). Here's some video:

And here is Ye's celebratory haircut:

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