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Gone West

IS JEEN-YUHS, THE FOUR-AND-A-half hour Netflix documentary about Kanye West, a tragedy or a vindication?

For Coodie and Chike, the two filmmakers who tracked West across two decades to make the series, it’s the latter. For them, West’s progress from his Chicago origins to his triumph as a producer and rapper is an example of God’s plan in action: West has a genius (hence the title — say it out loud), and his purpose in life is to express that genius.

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