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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Environment
Richard Roeper

‘jeen-yuhs’: Ye has nothing to fear from vintage video of young, little-known Kanye West

A young Kanye West flashes a smile in early 2000s footage from the first chapter of “jeen-yuhs.” | Netflix

In the early 2000s, the young Kanye West had enough clout to get through the door but not enough clout to make it into the right rooms. As a producer, West was much in demand and was delivering beats to the likes of Jay-Z, Ludacris, Scarface and Talib Kweli — but as a rapper, he was just another hopeful with a demo CD, trying desperately to get someone to listen to his work.

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