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#FromTheArchives — "I Knew Kanye But I Had Never Met Yeezy" — An Ode to Coodie (March 2022)

#FromTheArchives — "I Knew Kanye But I Had Never Met Yeezy" — An Ode to Coodie (March 2022)

A critical examination of the Netflix documentary, jeen-yuhs

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Jul 24, 2022
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Kanye West and Coodie Simmons; image via Irish Mirror
image via Irish Mirror

I, like a few million others, recently finished the Netflix docuseries, jeen-yuhs, which chronicled the meteoric rise of Kanye West, as told through the lenses of his long-time friends and collaborators, Clarence “Coodie” Simmons Jr. and Chike Ozah. Admittedly, I was initially hesitant about watching jeen-yuhs, because I have more …

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