A Kanye Trilogy’ trailer guarantees perception into Kanye West

Maintain onto your Hennessy: Netflix’s latest docuseries could possibly be a contentious one.

Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy comes from the minds of longtime Ye collaborators Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah. The three-part occasion, which debuted its first “act” in January on the Sundance Movie Competition and dropped a trailer for the general public on Thursday, stems from greater than 21 years of behind-the-scenes footage captured whereas working with Ye.

The undertaking reportedly chronicles all the things from the rapper’s beginnings as a small-time music producer in Chicago to his trendy, Grammy-winning profession and its seismic results throughout Hollywood. jeen-yuhs is, per Netflix, “an intimate and revealing portrait” that showcases “each his formative days attempting to interrupt by way of and his life at present as a world model and artist.”

Ye has voiced curiosity in taking management of the documentary’s edit course of. “I’ll say this kindly for the final time,” he acknowledged by way of Instagram final month. “I need to get closing edit and approval on this doc earlier than it releases on Netflix. Open the edit room instantly so I will be accountable for my very own picture.”

Simmons and Ozah have since reiterated that Ye won’t be given final approval on the doc, however burdened the function authenticity performed in making that call.

“To maintain it genuine, [Jeen-yuhs] needed to come from a perspective of the filmmaker,” Simmons mentioned in an interview with Deadline. “The story is actually by way of the angle of this journey of me and Kanye.” Simmons went on to say he was assured the movie would resonate with Ye’s followers.

The eerie, nearly haunting trailer presents solely a small glimpse on the genuineness Simmons alludes to there. However suffice to say, we’re very fascinated about what the filmmakers ship — and what Ye in the end thinks of it.

jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy launch week-to-week beginning Feb. 16 on Netflix