this is silly

think about this

this dude releasing footage of him producing for teyana taylor to Time (im sure for a bag)

he could easily structure the 3rd act as "damn the hard work has paid off and look what hes accomplishing to this day. look how hard he still works, llook how much he still believes in himself even 20 years later"

instead it paints a narrative that kanye and yeezy are 2 different people and everything went to s*** after his mom died and now hes manic and crazy. and this the narrative that big kanye haters and general public in general love to champion

coodie got paid 30 million to use his unseen footage as kayes 'friend' to paint him in a negative light

theres no other way to walk away from act 3 except negatively unless you actually follow kanyes career closely

I do not disagree with you one bit, and from a documentary point of view, it should have been this way.

but as others have said this is an outside view on ye, not coming from ye's pov himself. and whether the "narrative" about ye being crazy is wrong or right, I think most stans would agree it's wrong, it's still a narrative that exists to the director, and i'd argue half of the people that follow ye and listen to his music.

ya i hear that and thats kind of my issue

it just sucks that the outside view on ye is given so much credence because "he knows him better than us" while thats true, that doesnt mean some of the people that know you in your life also dont like you or would paint you in a negative light if they could

as the director you can tell whatever story you want, and in marketing the project it was never sold as coodies take on kanyes current mental health - it was pitched as kanyes friend detailing 20 years of behind the scenes footage. look at the difference between act 1 response and by the time 3 came out

someone like nabil or spike jonze or his current collaborators would not end it on this sour note. that comes from a hurt person and now the casual public gets vindication on that narrative

How many times does Kanye actually rap in a booth in this documentary?

I feel like that missing BTS footage from 808s to Pablo (I know not Coodie’s fault) is the most crucial to understanding Kanye now and that’s what makes this documentary feel somewhat unsatisfying

But why would he do the first one?
Maybe he really felt like kanye changed for the worse
Its his documentary and his POV

Coodie voice and the Ye mannerisms.

Rodman can’t pronounce Kanye, calls him Cayenne just like the documentary lol

7:26

From someone who loved the doc as is, I can’t help but agree with this

U think act 2 was average ? that was the best one

different strokes for different folks ig, for me what i most sought after in a kanye doc was in act 1. tbh i wouldve taken a doc focused solely on pre-college dropout years at the same length of the whole trilogy

I didn’t know what was missing from the doc until I watched this fan made version.

Looking back I would prefer to replace ep.3 or add more episodes with content that revealed how much Kanye impacted hip hop and fashion, and more stories about Kanye told by other people.

Example of this at 36:38.

My favorite part is Donald Glover saying Kanye is responsible for a lot of hip hop being about what’s on the inside rather than the outside. That hit me hard because even though I knew this, I’ve never heard it described so perfectly, and that embodies so much about I love about Kanye in the studio and in life.

damn can't believe i just saw this

dead end hip hop just reviewed it😭 myke c town called him a terrible human being

"cayenne pepper"

instagram.com/p/CdeNA1avJq7/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I just got done with this. Kanye is a real visionary. What a story, and the irony is he’s the same guy! Just a bit more wiser but at the heart of it the same fearless artist.

I want more

Coodie a fake friend

He didn't say tht