Despite not having final say over the film, it appears that West is pleased with how it turned out. So are directors Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, who spent over 20 years filming the rapper. In a new interview with Business Insider, the filmmakers defended their process and the decision to leave West out of the editing room.
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“For us, as filmmakers, the name of our company is Creative Control, so, there are just certain rules in documentary filmmaking for it to be authentic,” Ozah said. “And for it to resonate, people need to see certain things. So sometimes it’s just not best for the filmmaking for the subject, who the film is largely about, to have control over the direction the story goes in.”
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The second chapter of “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” streams on Netflix on Wednesday, February 23.
