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Drake expressed a desire to narrate the 2022 Netflix Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs, the miniseries’ directors told podcaster Samson Shulman in a recent interview. Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah explained to Shulman that Drake became interested in the role after watching a private teaser of the show.

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Kanye West has become possibly the world’s most famous and revered rap star, dominating headlines with his music and his personal life. But there was a time – hard as it is to imagine – when he was pegged as “just” a great record producer, and not a performer in his own right.

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Kanye West and Jamie Foxx recording ‘Slow Jamz’ has been released as part of the second ‘act’ of the documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – you can watch a clip below.The second part of the Coodie & Chike-directed trio of films is now streaming on Netflix after the first part premiered on the streaming service on February 16.One scene in ‘Act 2’ of jeen-yuhs sees West talking Foxx through his vocal part on the track ‘Slow Jamz’, which was released in 2004 on both West’s debut album ‘The College Dropout’ and Twista’s ‘Kamikaze’ LP.A clip of the in-the-studio scene, which has been released on Netflix’s social media accounts today (February 23) to promote the latest instalment of jeen-yuhs, also sees Foxx recording his vocal parts for ‘Slow Jamz’ – you can watch the moment below.jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy Act 2 is now streaming and features footage of Kanye and Jamie Foxx recording Slow Jamz pic.twitter.com/fuQFkYLDjn— Netflix (@netflix) February 23, 2022Speaking to Business Insider earlier this month, jeen-yuhs co-director Chike Ozah spoke about why they denied West’s request to be involved in the editing process.“For us, as filmmakers, the name of our company is Creative Control, so, there are just certain rules in documentary filmmaking for it to be authentic,” he said.“And for it to resonate, people need to see certain things. So sometimes it’s just not best for the filmmaking for the subject, who the film is largely about, to have control over the direction the story goes in.“But, that being said, obviously, the input of Kanye’s team has always been welcome and we’re out to make the best documentary possible.

Kanye West documentary jeen-yuhs have opened up about denying the rapper and producer’s demands to have a say in the editing process.The new three-part Netflix film event released its first part last week, with the series following the star’s music career and rise to fame.West – who is now legally known as Ye – previously demanded that he “must get final edit and approval” on the documentary so that he can “be in charge of [his]own image”.Directors Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons and Chike Ozah have now spoken on denying the rapper’s request, noting that it is “not best for the filmmaking”.“For us, as filmmakers, the name of our company is Creative Control, so, there are just certain rules in documentary filmmaking for it to be authentic,” Ozah told Business Insider. “And for it to resonate, people need to see certain things.“So sometimes it’s just not best for the filmmaking for the subject, who the film is largely about, to have control over the direction the story goes in.”However, he went on to note: “But, that being said, obviously, the input of Kanye’s team has always been welcome and we’re out to make the best documentary possible.“This documentary, like we said, is a period in creating Kanye’s larger message.

This week saw the premiere of “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy”, the three-part Netflix  documentary about Kanye West that has literally been decades in the making.

Kanye West is the subject of a brand new Netflix docu-series, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— Directors Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah chart Kanye West’s fascinating journey over 20 years in the new multi-part documentary, “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” which is being rolled out in installments on Netflix. In part one, hitting Netflix on Wednesday, Ye is not yet famous and trying to make a name for himself, while his friends document his every move and his sweet relationship with his late mother Donda before his life changed with the release of “College Dropout” in 2004.

Kanye «Ye» West's marriage and now split from Kim Kardashian has dominated much of the last decade of his life, the 40-year-old reality star and their family together do not feature predominantly in Kanye's new Netflix documentary trilogy, . ET's Lauren Zima spoke with the film's directors, Clarence «Coodie» Simmons and Chike Ozah about why the makeup mogul was mostly omitted from the footage surrounding the 44-year-old rapper's life. «I say if you wanna know more about the Kardashians, you can watch them on whatever network that is, but I feel like this family through my lens, through my perspective of being with Kanye, of all of us helping to get him where he is through fam or through, you know, it was a village of people that got him there, and I wasn't around with Kim Kardashian and the family,» Coodie, who has known Kanye for decades, explained to ET. Coodie was friends with Kanye at a young age and began recording footage with the «Praise God» emcee back in 1998. The first two installments of the trilogy take place ahead of the release of Kanye's hit 2004 album,, while the third follows him in his later years.

Kanye West has said that he wants Drake to narrate his upcoming Netflix documentary, Jeen-Yuhs.The three-part series will present an “intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye West’s experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist”.Directed by Ye collaborators Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, the first “act” of Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is due to land on Netflix on February 16. A new trailer was released last week.As Hot New Hip Hop reports, the ‘DONDA’ rapper took to social media yesterday (February 7) to post a screenshot of a text conversation seemingly regarding Jeen-Yuhs.

Kanye West has sold his luxury Ripsaw EV2 tank.The rapper – known legally as Ye – has offloaded the military vehicle which previously featured in his music video for ‘Closed On Sunday‘, where he was seen driving in it with his former mother-in-law, Kris Jenner.According to TMZ, West recently sold the EV2, which retails at $500,000 (£370,102) to David ‘Heavy D’ Sparks and David ‘Diesel Dave’ Kiley of the Discovery reality TV show Diesel Brothers.Heavy D told the gossip site that after picking up the tank, he discovered that it contains a built-in DVD player that plays a K-pop video on a loop and he has no idea how to turn it off.Kanye West just sold his tank for $500,000‼️ pic.twitter.com/ztTNw303pm— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) February 1, 2022Meanwhile, Netflix recently released a new trailer for West’s documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy.The film, which is directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, will capture two decades of the rapper’s life and career. It promises to showcase “both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist”.Act 1 of the three-part documentary arrives on Netflix on February 16, having initially premiered during Sundance’s virtual festival last month.West is also currently working on ‘DONDA 2’, the sequel album to 2021’s ‘DONDA’, which he previously said would be released on February 22. It will be executive produced by Future, with Marilyn Manson also confirmed to be working on the record.

Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – watch below.Act 1 of the three-part documentary arrives on Netflix on February 16, having initially premiered during Sundance’s virtual festival last month.Jeen-Yuhs is directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah and will capture two decades of the rapper’s life and career. It promises to showcase “both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist”.A first-look clip of the documentary was revealed last year during Netflix’s livestream TUDUM event, showing young West rapping his ‘The College Dropout’ track ‘Two Words’ alongside Mos Def.“There’s people who might be better programmers, better rappers,” West, who is now legally known as Ye, says in the trailer, “but where I think I won is I had the heart.”Last month, West made a statement about the film on Instagram in which he “kindly” said: “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.

The story of Kanye West’s rise to global superstardom is the event of the season.

Kanye West fans are that much closer to seeing the 'jeen-yuhs' at work behind the music. On Friday, Netlix dropped the final trailer for the upcoming docuseries , which boasts to be an unprecedented look into the 44-year-old artist's experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break into the entertainment industry and his life today as a global brand and artist.Described as a «landmark documentary event,» the seriescomes from Clarence «Coodie» Simmons and Chike Ozah, more commonly known as Coodie & Chike, who first garnered attention with their breakthrough music video for West’s «Through the Wire.» Since then, they have directed «Two Words» and a version of «Jesus Walks» in addition to Erykah Badu’s powerful and controversial music video for «Window Seat.»The trailer features glimpses of footage of the rapper captured by Coodie, whose voiceover explains that when he first met the «up-and-coming producer back in '98, I knew he was destined for greatness.»«The goal was to see how far his dreams would take him.

Kanye’s demands for the final cut on Jeen-yuhs makes its Sundance premiere all the more fascinating.

Kanye West has asked to be given the “final edit and approval” on his new Jeen-Yuhs documentary before it arrives on Netflix next month.Announced last year, Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will present an “intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye West’s experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist”.The first “act” of the three-part doc series is due to premiere on February 16, with the subsequent episodes to follow as weekly instalments. An official teaser arrived earlier this month.Taking to Instagram yesterday (January 21), West wrote: “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time.

Kanye West is not happy with the soon to be released documentary following his career. In an Instagram statement, he wrote that he wanted final cut rights to “Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” a Netflix documentary that will be available this February. Kanye West shares what he wants to do to Kim Kardashian’s boo Pete DavidsonKanye West, Billie Eilish and Harry Styles are headlining CoachellaA post shared by ye (@kanyewest)“I’m going to say this kindly for the last time.

“Jeen-Yuhs” premieres at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.The mercurial rapper, 44, took to Instagram Friday morning, boldly declaring: “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time. I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.”Appearing to allege he’s been locked out of the creative process, West continued: “Open the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image.

Kanye West is claiming he’s been locked out of the edit room just days before his documentary “Jeen-Yuhs” is set to be released.

Addie Morfoot ContributorBy Addie MorfootCoodie Simmons and Chike Ozah spent 22 years chronicling the life and career of rapper Kanye West. In October 2019, Coodie, a former stand-up comedian turned music video and documentary director, and his longtime creative partner and co-director, Ozah, successfully pitched the project to Time Studios. Over the last three years they have worked on taking 330 hours of footage and editing it down to three feature-length documentaries, titled “Jeen-Yuhs.” The project, which Netflix acquired last fall, premieres at Sundance Jan.

Instagram to voice his displeasure at, he claims, being locked out of the editing room. “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time,” the post begins. “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.

“I’m going to say this kindly for the last time,” began the 22 Grammy winner Kanye West in an Instagram rant today, “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.”

Addie Morfoot ContributorThe 35 feature documentaries heading to this year’s Sundance Film Festival address a wide array of issues, including the U.S. maternal-mortality crisis (Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s “Aftershock”); the battle over control of women’s bodies (Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’ “The Janes”); corporate greed (Rory Kennedy’s “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing”); and climate change (Rachel Lears’ “To the End”).But this year’s nonfiction lineup also includes several portrait documentaries: Kanye West (“jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy”), Bill Cosby (“We Need to Talk About Cosby”), Sinéad O’Connor (“Nothing Compares”) and Princess Diana (“The Princess”) are among the many famous and infamous figures being explored.

Kanye 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.

Netflix‘s Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2022 in January.The three-part Jeen-Yuhs was directed by filmmakers Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah and was initially revealed by Netflix back in September alongside footage of West rapping his ‘The College Dropout’ track ‘Two Words’ alongside Yasiin Bey (Mos Def).Featuring previously unreleased archival footage of West, the film promises to capture two decades of the rapper’s life and

Netflix has released the first preview of JEEN-YUHS, its 20-years-in-the-making documentary series about Kanye West. In the preview, West and Mos Def rap an impassioned acapella version of "Two Words", their classic collaboration from West's debut album The College Dropout.

Kanye West is giving unprecedented access to his life and career in the ambitious docuseries, “jeen-yuhs”, from Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah. On Saturday, during Netflix’s global fan event, the streaming platform debuted a sneak peek of the project.

In many circles, Kanye West is known as a musical genius, that’s probably undisputable, he’s recorded some classic hip hop bangers.

Netflix has just dropped a first look at the new Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs!

Kanye West, titled jeen-yuhs, is coming to Netflix, it has been announced.Revealed during Netflix’s livestream TUDUM event, highlighting upcoming films and TV shows on the streaming platform.Jeen-yus was directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah and will capture two decades of the rapper’s life and career.

Kanye West is giving unprecedented access to his life and career in the ambitious docuseries,, from Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah. On Saturday, during Netflix’s global fan event, the streaming platform debuted a sneak peek of the project.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorNetflix has released the first teaser for “Jeen-yuhs,” an intimate portrait of global superstar Kanye West.Directed by Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, better known as Coodie and Chike, the three-act documentary follows West over a 20-year period. “Jeen-yuhs” shows behind-the-scenes footage of West as he builds his way from singer to businessman and becomes a global brand.

Netflix has bought a Kanye West documentary series covering the last 20 years of his career. News of the documentary was first reported by Billboard with the suggestion that the streaming company paid $30 million for the rights.

Kanye West because a multipart documentary about the rapper is coming soon. Billboard reported Tuesday that Netflix bought the project for $30 million and acquired it from Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah. Commonly knows as Coodie & Chike, they directed West’s first videos “Through the Wire” and the third version of “Jesus Walks.” It will feature never-before-seen videos and other rare footage of west and has been more than 20 years in the making.