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Kanye: 'I'm changing my name'
Published Monday, Jan 26 2009, 18:24 GMT | By David Balls

Rex Features
The rapper said that he has been "forced" to adopt a new pseudonym for the launch of his Louis Vuitton footwear range.
"Due to what has happened - what has happened so severely when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis 'The King' Jr. Address me as such," he said in a video blog.
In a reference to T.I’s track 'Swagger Like Us’, he added: "And until then I will be in the building, swagger on a hundred-thousand trillion."
West's footwear range will be available from the summer.
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