Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Proclaiming President George W. Bush doesnt care about Black people.
Hitting up Mark Zuckerberg for a billion dollars on Twitter.
And, of course, running for president (just months removed from donning a MAGA hat).
Call it a portrait of the artist as a young firebrand.
Coodie says he was inspired to chronicle Wests journey after watching the award-winning 1994 basketball documentaryHoop Dreams.
But Kanye didnt want nobody to see that side of him.
Now hes a super-huge star and he knows people look at him in a certain light.
He wanted them to continue to look at him in that light.
Im going to say this kindly for the last time, West wrote.
I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.
fire up the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image.
Thank you in advance.
But like I told him, this is not the definitive Kanye West documentary.
And I told him that he could not be involved creatively.
Because that takes away the authenticity.
And I told him the story that were telling is this story.
Its not about making you look a certain way.
This story is about showing these dreamers that they can have a dream and make it.
So for him to say that … thats just Kanye.
ThatJeen-Yuhsis not the definitive West doc becomes particularly clear in the seriess third installment.
Okay, I have, West says in the doc.
Theres an execution style that was performed on me over the past six to seven years, postTaylor Swift.
Where they tie one arm both arms, both legs to four horses all in different directions.
But Coodie says he was unprepared to witness what seemed like Wests mental unraveling firsthand.
Not crazy it was just like, tripped out to me to be filming it, the director says.
Not for nothing, Kanyes like my brother.
And I love him like a brother.
So I wanted to pay close attention and verify everything was okay.
So thats why I put the camera down.
So you chose friendship over filmmaking, I offer.
Brotherhood over filmmaking, Coodie says.
