Here’s Your First Look At Netflix’s Upcoming Kanye West Doco ‘Jeen-Yuhs’
The multi-part series has been in the making for over 20 years.
Netflix has gifted us the first look at its forthcoming Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs.
The project was first announced a few months back, when it was revealed the streaming service had paid US $30 million for the documentary, which is being led by Coodie and Chike — Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons and Chike Ozah, who co-directed Kanye’s ‘Through the Wire’ and ‘Jesus Walks’ visuals.
Netflix unveiled a short teaser as part of its huge TUDUM event over the weekend — during which it dropped trailers for just about every major show it has, including The Crown, Stranger Things, Bridgerton, and more. In the Jeen-Yuhs clip, Kanye and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) are trading lyrics for what would become the track ‘Two Worlds’, which appears on Kanye’s 2004 album The College Dropout.
Jeen-Yuhs will reportedly feature never-before-seen footage of the rapper, and has been in the works for over two decades. It promises to be an “intimate and revealing” portrait of Kanye’s experience, according to a press release. Kanye is not reportedly involved in the film; the multi-part documentary will hit Netflix sometime in 2022.
Kanye’s latest album, Donda, arrived last month in a typical cloud of controversy. The rapper had held a number of stadium listening parties in the lead-up to the event — and even set up camp inside one of the stadiums to complete the album. He built a replica of his childhood home inside the stadium for one of said listening parties. He also invited Marilyn Manson — an accused rapist — and DaBaby, who recently made homophobic remarks onstage, to join him at the listening party and on his album — a gross publicity stunt which marred the rollout.
Read our review of the album here.