Netflix's 'jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy' is (mostly) genius
The three-part docuseries tracks the rappers rise, starting as an up-and-coming producer in Chicago.
Netflix's new docuseries, , is truly genius...for the first two-thirds, at least.That's not a bad average for an ambitious project: Assembled from footage recorded by old friends who have been trailing the mercurial rap star with a camera for over 20 years, spans more than four hours divided into chunks about 90 minutes each.The first two episodes cover an intense time from the late 1990s until the mid 2000s, when Kanye had to convince the rap world he was more than just a talented producer. Unlikely as it seems now, back then, rap labels and executives weren't sure that this skinny kid who had cooked up compelling beats for Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri and
