Two filmmakers spent two decades with their cameras pointed at Kanye West, and jeen-yuhs is what came out the other side — a documentary series built from footage most crews never get.
What is Jeen Yuhs about?
Directed by Coodie and Chike Ozah, jeen-yuhs follows its subject's path from an ambitious singer to a global businessman and cultural figure, drawing on archival footage the directors themselves shot over roughly two decades. The series covers a wide arc — early struggles for recognition, the rise, and the reach the artist eventually achieved — without needing outside talking heads to fill in the gaps, since so much was captured firsthand as it happened. Naeem Ghefari and Kid Cudi also appear across the run.
About the cast
Ye (credited under that name) is the subject and central presence throughout, with Naeem Ghefari and Kid Cudi appearing in the footage the directors assembled. The series draws its texture from proximity — Coodie's own camera was there for much of what unfolds — rather than from reconstructed interviews after the fact.
Context & significance
At 270 minutes across its run, jeen-yuhs sits comfortably among the more substantial music documentaries of 2022, and it has been broadly well received by critics. Its genre mix of documentary and music programming places it alongside other artist-access projects, though few of those had two decades of raw footage to draw from the way this one did. Series built from a director's own long-running personal footage are rare, since few filmmakers keep shooting a subject for that long before the material becomes a finished project, and that scarcity is part of what sets this one apart from a standard artist profile.
Watching Jeen Yuhs on Ktime
jeen-yuhs streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page is open to browse without signing in first. K-Time's Farsi interface and diaspora-oriented catalogue make it straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers to find English-language music documentaries like this one alongside the platform's Iranian and regional programming. The series sits within K-Time's broader English-language documentary and music selection, browsable from the same Farsi-first catalogue that carries the platform's Iranian and regional programming.