'Donda' A long and unexpected delivery
It escapes no one since Kanye West is an unfiltered egomaniac and a deranged cretin, but
everyone has come to that conclusion at different times in the rapper's career
.
There are those who maintain, for example, that Kanye went too far when he threatened to run for the US presidential election in 2020;
For others, the straw that broke the camel's back would be his visit to the White House with the
Make America Great Again
cap to be photographed with Donald Trump.
But we can go much further back in time in search of the original piss out of the pot.
Was it when she paired up with Kim Kardashian and gave herself up to life again rich with no pedigree?
Those who frequent Twitter will remember the nights in which Kanye would crack out of control for hours and
the most veterans still have in mind the 2009 MTV gala
, when he took the stage to snatch the trophy for best video of the year from Taylor Swift .
It is true that Kanye later repented and made peace with the snowy princess of pop, but part of the excuses at the time
- he said that God had ordered it -
already indicated that the prestige he had accumulated as a musician was wasting it for loudmouths .
Kanye earned a well-deserved reputation as an edge, unmanageable bipolar, and the question that has floated between the industry and fans for decades is if it was always like this, or if we are dealing with a good neighborhood boy who one day
blew a fuse
and he took to showing himself to the world as an imbecile.
One of the great contributions of the documentary
Jeen-yuhs
:
A Kanye West Trilogy
, which Netflix has released this week, is that it allows us to notice that
Kanye was already like this from the beginning
, although in a buried, larval state.
There was no sudden change, but an increase, an explosive evolution that led him to be the best artist at the start of the 21st century and also an unbearable narcissist.
The best thing about the documentary is
the exclusivity of the material
, practically unpublished in its entirety and that
Coodie Simmons has been filming for two decades, a comedian who was the first to notice his talent
.
Simmons made a decision: inspired by the film
Hoop dreams
(1994), a documentary that reflects for years the career of two high school basketball players with the potential to reach the NBA, he wanted to follow the evolution of Kanye, convinced that he would reach be a star
And when he went to New York in 2000 to seek a record deal,
he followed him with his home camera and entered his inner circle.
.
Since then, he has shot more than 300 hours of material that, if you allow us the handy paraphrase of James Joyce, have ended up forming a valuable portrait of the teenage rapper.
The only chapter available for now,
Vision
, deals with
the dreams of the youthful Kanye
shortly before starting the recording of his first album, The college dropout (2004).
At the time, Ye was one of the most in-demand producers in the rap industry: he had delivered beats to
Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z
and dozens of other rappers, and in a short time he had gone from asking for $500 a
beat
to collect 40,000.
The development of the first chapter is like an X-ray of Kanye's self-esteem and pride, so fragile and at the same time so tenacious: although it took him two years to get the first contract -it was finally Roc-a-fella-, he kept breaking stone, seeking the attention of MTV, surrounding himself with his teenage friends in Chicago, but also
enduring rudeness and envy
.
One of the brightest appearances is that of
her mother, Donda West
.
In the house where she grew up, she instructs him through a parable: “When a giant looks in the mirror, the giant sees nothing.
Everyone can see him, but he doesn't see himself."
Kanye promises him that if he grows up big, he won't lose sight of the world, that he'll keep his feet on the ground.
It is the advice that is transmitted to any aspiring star, and that few know how to comply when fame and money arrive.
Today we know that West failed her mother, and that he is that giant that the mirror rejects
.
For now,
jeen-yuhs
, it couldn't have started better.
Trusting that Coodie's material has been just as good and constant for 20 more years, in the development of the documentary we should see from now on what is interesting about the Ye case: how
a young man with potential ended up crystallizing in the genius that dominated hip hop between 2004 and 2012
, and how he eventually became a cartoon drowned out by his overweening ego.
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