

He ended up making the “Through the Wire” video, and beginning a career as a filmmaker that’s now culminated with Jeen-Yuhs, which hits Netflix Feb. “If it’s not moving the story forward, you have to let ,” says Coodie, who was a comedian and host of the Chicago hip-hop TV show Channel Zero before dropping everything to follow West to New York.

Their first cut, they reveal on the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, was nine hours long. The new documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is four-and-a-half-hours worth of revelatory footage of Kanye West - and directors Coodie and Chike cut it down from 330 hours, dating back to the early 2000s.
