If you miss the old Kanye, the set on his goals Kanye, a trilogy of Netflix documentaries following the iconoclastic rapper’s early career might be made for you.
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is rolling out week-by-week on Netflix, with each part available from February 16, February 23, and March 2 respectively. It’s an appropriately super-sized look into the development of rap’s biggest ego—and it couldn’t be arriving at a more tense time in Kanye West’s life.
Now in his mid-forties after about 11 albums and one failed presidential campaign, Ye is making headlines for harassing ex-wife Kim Kardashian and sparking a frankly ludicrous amount of industry beef with everyone from Pete Davidson to Billie Eilish.
A rapper, fashion designer, and great producer in his own right, Ye has been open about grappling with bipolar disorder and psychosis while in the midst of global ubiquity that’d drive anyone to the brink. But that’s only shown in the later scenes of the trailer below: we mostly get a nervous young Kanye, in the lens of “visionary filmmakers Coodie and Chike”.
“It felt like the bigger Kanye got, the more we grew apart”, the doco’s director explains. “Jesus Walks” plays over painful footage of Ye’s beloved late mother Donda West, and we get a shot straight from the cover of Ye’s debut album The College Dropout.
Whether you’re exhausted of all the recent Ye drama, or you’re a devoted super-fan, there’s nowhere else to go but this three-week streaming event if you’re seeking insight to the old Kanye.
