Kanye West Wants To Edit Documentary As He Wants, Director Strives To Refuse

Kanye West (youtube screenshot)

JAKARTA - Rapper Kanye West is the main subject in a documentary called Jeen-Yuh. This film will tell the story of his music career as a rapper and producer which is scheduled to be released on Netflix.

It's only two weeks before Jeen-Yuh's release but Kanye West asked Netflix to let him edit the final cut for the film.

"I will speak nicely one last time. I need approval and final editing before this documentary is released on Netflix", Kanye West said on Instagram.

“Open the editing room so I can handle my own image. Thank you", concluded Kanye with a smile emoji.

The request was rejected by two Jeen-Yuh film directors, Coodie and Chike. To Rolling Stone, they said they would not allow this.

“Chike and I have a company called Creative Control because you don't want to lose creative control,” Coodie replies.

"If Kanye didn't have a character as polarized as he does, we wouldn't have an interesting document", Chike said.

Both hope Kanye West can take a point of view in terms of the direction of Coodie and Chike. They also claim that Kim Kardashian's former partner has discussed it openly.

“I asked him if he had seen the film and he said 'I have a process'/ We talk as brothers on the point”, Coodie said.

The documentary Jeen-Yuh will be released on Netflix on February 16th. In addition, Kanye West is also scheduled to release the album Donda 2 on February 22.