Last month, Ye took to Instagram to request “final edit and approval” over a new three-part documentary about him, Jeen-Yuhs, ahead of its debut on Netflix.
Directors Coodie and Chike say that they don’t plan on granting the rapper editorial control over the project. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the directors said that they hadn’t heard from Ye before the Instagram post and the three-part documentary, which was already finished at the time, will still release as planned.
“Me and Chike have a company called Creative Control because you don’t want to lose your creative control,” Coodie told the publication.
But the two weren’t surprised when Ye called for them to “open the edit room immediately.”
“If Kanye wasn’t as polarizing of a character as he was, we wouldn’t have an interesting doc,” Chike added. “This just comes with the territory. This is Kanye’s personality, so you just embrace it and then it’s going to take us, take us wherever it takes us…. This is the person that we’re dealing with. We all know what we’re dealing with.”
Coodie told Rolling Stone that he ran into Ye on Monday. The Instagram post didn’t come up in conversation, and the rapper had yet to watch the documentary. “I asked him, ‘did he watch the film?’ And he said, ‘I have a process,’” Coodie said.
Jeen-Yuhs is available for streaming on Netflix on February 16.
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