Why Jeen-Yuhs’ Directors Stop Filming During a Kanye ‘Rant’

For casual observers of the artist formerly known as Kanye West, the rapper–producer–tabloid fixture–billionaire apparel magnate’s two-decade ascendancy as hip-hop’s most polarizing and galvanizing figure has become inextricably linked with certain grand — if erratic — gestures: swiping the MTV Video Music Award from Taylor Swift. Proclaiming President George W. Bush “doesn’t care about Black people.” Hitting up Mark Zuckerberg for a billion dollars on Twitter. And, of course, running for president (just months removed from donning a MAGA hat). The episodic Ye documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (which arrived in 1,100 movie theaters across North America on Thursday before beginning streaming via weekly installments on Netflix February 16) provides something of a…