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The Directors Of The Kanye West Documentary ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ Have Responded To His Demands For Complete Creative Control · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Kanye West made headlines
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  Speaker 1: with a recent Instagram post demand and creative control and
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  Speaker 1: final edit of his upcoming Netflix documentary Genius. The people
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  Speaker 1: who actually have the contractual rights to his demands are
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  Speaker 1: the projects two directors, Kuti and Chik, who finally responded,
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  Speaker 1: telling Rolling Stone they have no intentions of handing over
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  Speaker 1: their projects, saying, we literally own a company called Creative
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  Speaker 1: Control because we know you never want to lose your
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  Speaker 1: creative control. If Kanye wasn't as polarizing of the character
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  Speaker 1: as he is, we wouldn't have an interesting doc. This
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  Speaker 1: just comes with the territory. This is Kanye's personality, so
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  Speaker 1: you embrace it, and it's going to take us wherever
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take us. This is the person we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with, and we know that. End of quote. One
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  Speaker 1: half of the directing team actually ran into Kanye after
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  Speaker 1: he made the demand, and his Instagram post wasn't even discussed.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they simply talked to his friends. Genius hits
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  Speaker 1: Netflix February. That's Direct from Hollywood.