Last month, Kanye West called to "open the edit room immediately" for his own "final edit and approval" of Netflix's jeen-yuhs documentary, but directors Coodie & Chike say they have no intention of granting Ye's request.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Coodie shared, "Me and Chike have a company called Creative Control, because you don't want to lose your creative control," adding that a run-in with West yesterday (February 1) in Los Angeles led to no further questions about the forthcoming doc.
"I asked him, 'Did he watch the film?' And he said, 'I have a process,'" he told the publication. "I said, 'That's great that you got your process.' And we just talked as brothers from that point."
"If Kanye wasn't as polarizing of a character as he was, we wouldn't have an interesting doc," Chike said of West and his Instagram demand. "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."
jeen-yuhs, which premiered at the virtual Sundance Film Festival last month (January 23), is said to be "an intimate and revealing portrait" of West's formative years. As for who will give the final okay on the film, Coodie adds, "God has the final cut."
The three-part jeen-yuhs will make its Netflix debut February 16, and you can watch a trailer here.
Recently, West announced he was at work on Donda 2 ... with deeply unsavoury collaborator Marilyn Manson.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Coodie shared, "Me and Chike have a company called Creative Control, because you don't want to lose your creative control," adding that a run-in with West yesterday (February 1) in Los Angeles led to no further questions about the forthcoming doc.
"I asked him, 'Did he watch the film?' And he said, 'I have a process,'" he told the publication. "I said, 'That's great that you got your process.' And we just talked as brothers from that point."
"If Kanye wasn't as polarizing of a character as he was, we wouldn't have an interesting doc," Chike said of West and his Instagram demand. "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."
jeen-yuhs, which premiered at the virtual Sundance Film Festival last month (January 23), is said to be "an intimate and revealing portrait" of West's formative years. As for who will give the final okay on the film, Coodie adds, "God has the final cut."
The three-part jeen-yuhs will make its Netflix debut February 16, and you can watch a trailer here.
Recently, West announced he was at work on Donda 2 ... with deeply unsavoury collaborator Marilyn Manson.
