In the first two minutes of the epic three-part Netflix documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, Kanye West’s life flashes before our eyes: dressed as Christ in his crown of thorns on the cover of Rolling Stone, shaking the hand of Donald Trump in the Oval Office, performing on a giant floating platform ringed with lights. From the sacred to the profane, one of the 21st century’s greatest hip-hop artists is seen through his highs and lows; his heady rise to both global superstardom and pop cultural pariah status follows over the next five and a half hours.
Like West’s last couple of albums, Jeen-Yuhs is almost certainly too long and almost definitely could have done with a damn good edit. Fans will no doubt lap up every second of this exhaustive document, but for anyone who thinks he might just be a touch indulgent, well, this won’t make them think otherwise.
