Television | Documentary series tells how young and enthusiastic rapper became scandal-winning superstar Kanye West

In The 2011 Flow Festival made a successful attachment to its repertoire: American Kanye Westin. He had released five albums in six years that had risen one after another to sales and review successes.

In Suvilahti, West began his performance of the crane basket above the main stage audience. He was the brightest star of the new generation of rap music, and the Finnish audience was lucky, because at that time he was also a music composer at the top of his career.

Fresh a three-part TV documentary Jeen-Yuhs: The Kanye Trilogy depicts Kanye West as an unknown Chicago youth from the sky as a rap superstar.

After the summer 2011 and their gig in Finland, Kanye West became even more famous, but no longer just because of her music. He had gained a reputation as a confident and provocative figure in the past, but gradually his appearances and comments became more confusing.

While West strongly criticized both the entertainment industry and American society for the unfair treatment of blacks, he also confused many African Americans by saying that 400 years of slavery was the choice of blacks and that civil rights activists Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are too far away in the past and can no longer be contacted.

After Hurricane Katrina, West had blamed the president George W. Bushia for neglecting black Americans, and later he also criticized the president Barack Obama and ended up supporting Donald Trumpia. In 2020, he himself ran for president and won more than 60,000 votes in the election.

West has also featured his private life on social media. She married a reality TV star Kim Kardashianin with in 2014. The marriage ended in divorce in February 2021. Recently, West has been in public after sharing his bitter message with Kardashian on Twitter and threatening Kardashian’s current male friend.

American there have been people at the top of pop music in the middle of scandals before, like, say Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown and Ray Charles or died young Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain. However, they were stars long before social media, and the details of their private lives with their substance abuse problems and other difficulties were only gradually revealed.

Prince was considered confused when he repeatedly changed his artist name while fighting a record company. By the way, Kanye West’s official name is today Ye.

Inventive artists have done various publicity tricks all the time to stay in people’s minds and speeches and get more records and concert tickets sold.

In the case of Kanye West, one may rightly ask whether his role as a public figure has made his music secondary. West has told the public about his mental health problems, which is why he has also been in hospital. It makes him a sad figure in the midst of all worldly success and turmoil.

Jeen-Yuhs: The Kanye Trilogy -documentary focuses on the early years of Kanye West’s career, when the authors of the documentary Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah followed the novice rapper closely in different situations.

The first part of the documentary came to be seen on Netflix last week, with the next episode to be seen on Wednesday, February 23rd and a closing episode on it in a week’s time.

The earliest interviews for the opening period are from 1998. Director Simmons was a presenter on a Chicago TV channel at the time and featured new artists from the hometown in his program. She saw something extraordinary in young Kanye West and decided to follow her on the path to potential success.

Instead of the current Ye, who compares herself to world-famous figures, the first part sees an enthusiastic and talented young musician and rapper who persevere in recognizing his talents and does not give up, despite his arrogance and indifference to the music industry and more famous colleagues.

It is easy to feel sympathy for young Kanye.

The camera also shows Kanye and her mother Donda Westin in a warm relationship. Donda West, a professor at Chicago State University, died in the fall of 2007. Kanye West has already named two albums after her mother. The newest of them, Donda 2will appear next week.

Kanye West has sought extra publicity for its records in a number of ways, and Netflix ‘s documentary series is the most recent of them. Neither was born without difficulty, although West and Simmons were close friends for a long time.

The gap between director and artist cooled as West became a superstar, and the third part of the series is composed of much more fragmented material.

Simmons ’original plan was to finalize the documentary for West’s first Grammy Award, but West didn’t want to release the documentary at the time and show himself so openly to the world. So Simmons packed the interview tapes into sports bags and shoe boxes and left the material to wait for years.

West would have liked to cut the already finished document again, but this time Simmons refused.

Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Triology. Netflix.