We glide through footage spanning more than a decade: His infamous on-stage rants, his push into the world of fashion, and, of course, “I’ma let you finish.” The story lingers for a moment in a particularly stunning appearance on The Tonight Show following the 2009 VMAs, where he infamously interrupted Taylor Swift. Released this week, the third chapter of jeen-yuhs crystalizes the myth of Kanye West as a creative genius stifled by a society that refuses to accept him. The depth of the loss Kanye felt since Donda’s death in 2007 is for a moment made comprehensible. We watch Kanye sing “Hey Mama,” first during a taping of Oprah, and then for his mother in the kitchen of his childhood home. Filmmakers Coodie and Chike succeed in crafting an impossibly graceful edit. Rigidity makes way for warmth and Kanye appears more akin to the lifesized teddy bear on the cover of The College Dropout than the juggernaut he’s since become. The footage of them together from decades ago offers a glimpse of a young Ye at peace with himself. She encouraged him to reach as high as his imagination would allow.
Kanye’s mother, the late scholar and activist Donda West, believed in her son’s dreams with no reservation. The most heartbreaking scenes from the final installment of the Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy illuminate the fact. The stories we tell our children help them see the scale of their potential.
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