On Friday, February 4th, the streamer delivered the nearly three-minute-long visual, which takes us back in time twenty-one years to the early days of Ye's career, long before he had established himself as the multi-hyphenate that we know and love him as today.
"Twenty-one years ago, Clarence 'Coodie' Simmons met Kanye West and saw something so special that he moved from Chicago to New York City to document Ye's journey to become the next great rapper. Neither of them had any idea where just how far that journey would take them," the project's synopsis explains.
"I asked him, 'Did he watch the film?' And he said, 'I have a process,'" Coodie recalled of a recent run-in with the "FML" rapper, laughing. "I said, 'That's great that you got your process.' And we just talked as brothers from that point."
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy premiered virtually at the Sundance Film Festival last month. A press release reveals that – ahead of Act I's February 16th Netflix debut – Iconic Events Releasing and TIME Studios will be showing the documentary in theatres nationwide for a one-day engagement on February 10th.