A new docuseries about the spectacular—and often painful—ascent of Kanye West convincingly shows the precarity of the rapper’s early career, and the blind self-esteem that carried him through.
Years ago, the filmmaker Coodie Simmons abandoned his dream of becoming a standup comedian to follow around a young rapper named. The two met in 1998, when Simmons was the on-air correspondent for “Channel Zero,” a public-access show that he had co-created to document Chicago’s hip-hop scene. Simmons became West’s videographer soon afterward, and has since spent much of his life watching—and, in some ways, creating—Kanye West.
The real subject of “Jeen-yuhs” is the rare, nearly monomaniacal focus that West has become notorious for. He pursues opportunity and validation at nearly every turn, constantly straining to parlay his freestyles into something bigger. We often see him sitting studiously before a beat machine or a soundboard, working as other people stir in the background. Even the setbacks are incorporated into the grander scheme. In 2002, West was in an accident that shattered his jaw.
The series never presents any cohesive theory of creative genius, nor does it make a case for West as such a figure. In a way, it posits that West’s real gift is his infectious self-conviction. A few of West’s associates have stayed by his side the whole time . Rhymefest, a sideman who proffers his theories of genius in early footage , is still with him during his doomed. Simmons, who lost touch with West for several years, makes it seem like he would have done the same if he could have.
The third and final episode of the series, titled “Awakening,” diverts from the first two in tone and content. It covers a much longer span, including the six years when Simmons and West drifted apart. It was during that time—2008 to 2014—that West became the biggest rapper in the world.
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