The directors of the Jeen-Yuhs documentary about Kanye West do not intend to honor his request for final edit and approval ahead of its Netflix debut.
Ye took to his Instagram in January demanding that the editing room be opened immediately. “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time,” the rapper wrote. “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix.”
But directors Chike Ozah and Coodie Simmons told Rolling Stone said they were caught off guard by Ye’s request. According to them, the three-part documentary was already completed, and they do not intend to allow Ye the opportunity to edit.
“Me and Chike have a company called Creative Control because you don’t want to lose your creative control,” Simmons told the outlet.
As much as the request seemed to come out of nowhere, neither one was surprised by it.
“If Kanye wasn’t as polarizing of a character as he was, we wouldn’t have an interesting doc,” Ozah said. “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.”
Simmons told the outlet that he recently ran into Ye, who never even brought up the Instagram post. When he asked Ye if he watched the documentary, the rapper told Simmons that he has a “process.”
“I said. ‘That’s great that you got your process.’ And we just talked as brothers from that point.”
Jeen-Yuhs will be available for streaming on Netflix beginning Feb. 16.
