Keeping Up with Kanye West: Inside a Doc Trilogy Two Decades in the Making (Without Ye’s Final Cut)
variety.comKanye West, complete with an intense archive of unseen footage spanning more than two decades — assumed he had come from the gym.“I dumped the bag out right there on the table,” he says. “When they saw the pile of mini-DV tapes, they greenlit it.” To suggest that Coodie and his longtime creative partner and co-director Chike Ozah were finally getting their shot wouldn’t be quite accurate.
Their ride-along on the personal history of one of the most celebrated rappers and polarizing celebrities of our time was always going to find its way to audiences (as this issue went to press, West was named the main suspect in a misdemeanor battery investigation launched by the LAPD).
But, much like a long-delayed album or thrice-pushed stadium show from West (known more recently as Ye), timing is everything.
The footage has been edited into three feature-length documentaries, titled “Jeen-Yuhs.” Netflix acquired all three movies last fall, and attendees to the virtual Sundance Film Festival will get an early look at the saga before it hits the streaming service later this year.
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