In Netflix’s “Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” director Clarence “Coodie” Simmons explained how he knew Kanye West would become … Kanye West. The pair met more than 20 years ago, when Coodie and co-director Chike Ozah first began following the music and fashion mogul.
“Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy,” the three-part series from Coodie and Ozah, will explore Kanye West’s professional and personal life, according to Yahoo. There’s also footage from his near-fatal car accident in 2002, including footage with his mother, Donda, who died in 2007.
Donda West passed away after experiencing complications from plastic surgery at 58. At the time of her passing, her son had elevated his music career as an artist and producer. And where was Donda? Always by his side.
“It was like the bigger he got, the more he wanted her around,” said Coodie in a preview of the footage obtained by Yahoo.
Kanye named his eleventh album “Donda” after his most significant and loudest supporter. “You play tracks like Michael Jordan shoots free throws,” said the woman who rapped all the words to a song with her only son in another scene.
“The main thing is that you get to do something that you really love to do,” she added.
