Jeen-yuhs

Netflix has released the main trailer for ‘Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’. Image via Twitter @TheOldKanye_

‘Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’: Netflix releases ‘main’ trailer [watch]

‘Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’, described as a ‘once in a lifetime three-week global event’ looks at the rapper’s controversial career.

Jeen-yuhs

Netflix has released the main trailer for ‘Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’. Image via Twitter @TheOldKanye_

Netflix released the “main” trailer of Kanye West’s upcoming documentary jeen-yuhs which releases on 16 February. The documentary was directed by filmmakers Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah.

‘JEEN-YUHS: A KANYE TRILOGY’

Netflix describes Kanye West’s documentary as a “once in a lifetime three-week global event” because it looks at the rapper’s controversial career. The documentary was reportedly shot over two decades. 

Jeen-yuhs was reportedly sold to Netflix for $30 million (R451 million) by two filmmakers.  The documentary is presented in three acts that showcase the rapper’s breakthrough as an artist.

“A landmark documentary event presented in three acts from Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons and Chike Ozah, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is 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,” reads the synopsis of the documentary. 

HIGH PRAISE FOR ‘JEEN-YUHS’

“Filmmakers Coodie and Chike have created an extraordinary film and we’re honoured that they have trusted TIME Studios to produce jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” said the film’s producer and TIME Studios president, Ian Orefice.

Kanye is seen with Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams and Kid Cudi in a previously released teaser for the documentary. Twitter users are already excited about the documentary. The teaser also shows Kanye West and legendary rapper Mos Def rapping to their collaboration Two Words off West’s 2004 album, The College Dropout.

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WATCH THE ‘MAIN’ TRAILER HERE

“Twenty-one years ago, Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons met Kanye West and saw something so special that he moved from Chicago to New York City to document Ye’s journey to become the next great rapper. Neither of them had any idea where just how far that journey would take them,” read the description.

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