A new unauthorized Kanye West documentary has intimately detailed the last six years of the rapper’s turbulent personal and professional life.
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A new and unauthorised Kanye West documentary has intimately detailed the last six years of the rapper’s turbulent personal and professional life.
Director Nico Ballesteros filmed 3000 hours of the US rapper’s life while he was a member of West’s inner circle, including many of his private conversations, the NewYork Post reports.
Using footage captured between 2018 and 2024, In Whose Name? has been promoted as “a raw and often unsettling portrait, without commentary or conclusion”.
Several celebrities feature in the documentary, including Drake, Pharrell Williams and Playboi Carti - but one of the more interesting exchanges is with controversial businessman Elon Musk.
The Tesla CEO appears in an awkward scene that sees the two discuss their high-profile relationships.
“So are you and Kim, like, off and on, or something,” Musk asks, referring to West’s now ex-wife, Kim Kardashian.
Though the Runaway singer doesn’t answer, Musk goes on to disclose details about his own relationship with musician Grimes.
“Clare and I, Grimes, we’re sort of, you know – in the same text stream, she’s like, ‘I love you.’ And then like, you know, a day later, like, ‘I hate you’.”
The pair reportedly seem tense, West responding, “I don’t have the answers. Answers to everything except that.”
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were married for seven years and share four children together.
Kardashian filed for divorce from West in 2021, after seven years of marriage.
Their relationship had been rocked by numerous public episodes of West’s erratic behaviour.
In another scene, Kardashian tells the musician his “personality was not like this a few years ago”, seemingly referring to his bipolar disorder.
The 48-year-old was diagnosed with the mental health condition in 2016, according to the Guardian.
West can also be seen arguing with his then mother-in-law, Kris Jenner, about his decision to go off his bipolar medication.
“Y’all emasculated me and made me feel like a piece of s**t. And the only reason you got away with it is because I was medicated. I would rather be dead than be on medication.”
Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk also makes a small appearance in the documentary.
Kirk was killed on September 10 (local time) after he was shot at a Utah Valley University speaking engagement.
The footage, filmed in 2018, shows the late conservative commentator in political discussions with West and fellow activist Candace Owens.
