Kanye West's "jeen-yuhs" Documentary Official Trailer Is Here: Watch

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Act I of "jeen-yuhs" arrives on Netflix Wednesday, February 16th.

The premiere date for Kanye West's highly anticipated jeen-yuhs documentary is quickly approaching, and in preparation, Netflix has dropped off the official trailer for the forthcoming three-part series.

On Friday, February 4th, the streamer delivered the nearly three-minute-long visual, which takes us back in time twenty-one years to the early days of Ye's career, long before he had established himself as the multi-hyphenate that we know and love him as today.

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"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," the project's synopsis explains.

As you may have heard, the 44-year-old previously posted a public proclamation to his Instagram page, requesting that he be given the final edit of the documentary before it hit Netflix, although Coodie and Chike shut that down, saying that "God has the final cut."

"I asked him, 'Did he watch the film?' And he said, 'I have a process,'" Coodie recalled of a recent run-in with the "FML" rapper, laughing. "I said, 'That's great that you got your process.' And we just talked as brothers from that point."

Kanye West's "jeen-yuhs" Documentary Official Trailer Is Here: Watch
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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy premiered virtually at the Sundance Film Festival last month. A press release reveals that – ahead of Act I's February 16th Netflix debut – Iconic Events Releasing and TIME Studios will be showing the documentary in theatres nationwide for a one-day engagement on February 10th.

Check out the official trailer below.


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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.
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