Long before Kanye was rankling the public with what many deemed arrogance, Donda was happily nurturing this healthy self-esteem, believing it to be one of the keys toward success. This is evident in Jeen-Yuhs when Donda, unprompted, starts performing one of Kanye’s earliest high school raps, which starts out, “It’s cool to be known for my rapping ability.” She tells her son that he plays “tracks like Micheal Jordan shoots free throws,” and in part three, enthusiastically raps all of “Hey Mama,” alongside him, beaming ear-to-ear. When Kanye started rapping as a teenager, Donda was his biggest booster.
Last year, Kanye built a replica of the house for his Donda listening event at Soldier Field in Chicago. In a prescient twist, their family dog’s name was “Genius.” Kanye marveled about how small the house looked to him now, joking that he could touch both walls of his room by spreading his arms. I figured I would just nurture the creativity,” she wrote.ĭonda and Kanye spent about eight years at a house on South Shore and 78th, where Jeen-Yuhs filmmaker Coodie Simmons captured them sitting on the stoops and reminiscing about that era. Donda looked at these transgressions with amusement and approval: “I never criticized him for it.
He would purposely color fruit the wrong color to challenge perceptions: purple bananas, blue oranges. (“You never put no man over me / And I love you for that, mommy, can’t you see?” he rapped on “Hey Mama.”) Kanye’s artistic talent was obvious early on-he won local talent shows on a perennial basis-as was his penchant for rejecting the status quo. She and Kanye moved houses frequently, with the young Kanye alternately pushing Donda towards and away from her romantic interests. In Chicago, Donda became a faculty member at Chicago State University. But above all, Jeen-Yuhs shows how Donda West deeply shaped each of those facets of Kanye’s life and many more, serving as the driving force behind his creativity, spirituality, self-confidence, and ambition. ( Jeen-Yuhs is produced by TIME Studios, the film and television division of TIME.) The docuseries reveals many aspects of West’s career: his shattering of early ’00s hip-hop conventions his perseverance following a devastating car crash his recent political ambitions. While Kanye has sung and spoken plenty about Donda over the years, their relationship has perhaps never been chronicled with as much clarity and emotional resonance as it is in Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, a docuseries about West that arrives on Netflix on Feb. It included clips of her speeches and a mournful 50-second a capella chant of her name. Last year, West named his 10th studio album Donda, released 14 years after his mother’s unexpected and tragic death. Long before his debut album, The College Dropout, West wrote a song to his mother, Donda, entitled “Hey Mama,” which he premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005. Perspective, and wise men say, "One day, you'll find your way"īack when I was living at home and this was all a big dreamAnd the fame will be got caught and the day I moved to L.It’s far from breaking news that Kanye West is a mama’s boy. They say, "Kanye you keep it too real, boy"
I went out, the Benz was left and the clothes was left, and the hoes was left you talk the hoes to death, you spend the doughs to death, and tell me what is left for a real boy? Maybe that was all my fault, all my fault to be a real boyĬhasing the American Dream, chasing everything we seen, up on the tv screen The only one that come out on the tour and staysīack when I was living at home and this was all a big dreamAnd the fame will be got caught and the day I moved to L.A The only one was behind me, I can't find her no more Pinocchio story goes.And there is no Gepetto, to guide me, no one right beside me Pinocchio story goes, I just want to be a real boy Not some persona on T.V that no one can really feelįor everybody that sees you, they say "Wheres my camera?"įor everybody that sees you, they say "Sign the autograph"įor everybody that sees you crying and says you ought to laugh, you ought to laugh I turn on the tv and see me and see nothingWhat does it feel like to live real life, to be real Its like I'm looking for something out there trying to find something
Its funny, Pinocchio lied and that's what kept him from it Pinocchio story is, I just want to be a real boy They always say Kanye, he keeps it real boy What does it feel like, I ask you tonight That could bring back a piece of real life You'll never figure out real love (x3)Its so crazyīut for some reason I can never find what real love is aboutĮverything in the world figured out but I can never seem to find what love was aboutdo you think I sacrifice real life
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