Kanye West reportedly petitions city of Rye, NY to drop the “R” and rename it “Ye”

Rich Fury/VF20/Getty Images for Vanity FairYou can’t make this stuff up.  Kanye West has reportedly filed paperwork to have the City of Rye, New York drop the “R” in its name and rebrand it as “Ye.”

The hip-hop mogul “wants to move East for a while. Kanye isn’t into L.A.’s fakeness right now… people are so quick to judge him and he’s a really sensitive dude,” a source tells The Rye Record.

“He wants to live somewhere that people don’t care about material goods,” the source continues.  “Somewhere that’s not all about fancy cars and keeping up with the Joneses.  And Rye is the