Next Up: jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy

You Can’t Make This Up

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Next up on You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy" out now on Netflix. The lives of an emerging superstar and filmmaker intertwine in this intense and intimate three-part documentary following Kanye West's career. The documentary event showcases both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist. In our next episode, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews the directors, producers, and writers of "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy," Chike & Coodie. We can't wait for you to hear what they share about their experience capturing the footage that spans over two decades. If you haven't watched the trilogy yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before our next episode that releases next week. Stay Tuned!

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is You Can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind
0:17.7	your favorite Netflix documentaries and films. Long-for music documentaries are in, and Netflix has dropped something really special.
0:27.5	A three-part series on the life of the critically acclaimed and often controversial,
0:32.2	Kagn Kanye West.
0:33.9	Director Kooty began documenting the rapper's life and career when he was still unknown
0:39.4	and kept the cameras rolling for more than 20 years. The result is genius, a Kanye trilogy.
0:47.0	I don't know if you know that the reason why I make tracks at this point is to have enough money
0:52.3	to pay for my t-shirts.
0:54.6	Is to have enough money to pay for my mixtapes?
0:57.4	On next week's show I'll talk to Kooti and his co-director Chique about Genius.
1:02.4	It's an intimate look inside Kanye's life from an
1:05.0	inspiring rapper to a hit artist to a troubled superstar. Now I'm going to tell you
1:10.9	right now, Kanye is one of my all-time favorite artists.
1:15.2	If you haven't been to a live show, well, take it for me.
1:18.4	It can be a pretty wild ride.
1:20.4	And I was dying to talk about this documentary because there are so many good things for both the casual
1:27.0	Kanye listener and hardcore fans like me.
1:31.0	I love to see in Kanye's struggle to get a shot to record his debut album
1:36.0	even though the music bosses couldn't see him as anything other than a producer.
1:41.0	College Dropout is one of my favorite albums of all time and you can
1:46.2	see so much of that record come to life. But what Kudi and Chique show us is that
1:52.0	even with a signed record contract, the label kept slow rolling college dropouts production.
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