Kanye West is on the coronary heart of a daring new documentary that captures his psychological well being struggles and public controversies, and the filmmaker behind it’s standing agency on his resolution to indicate all of it.

Nico Ballesteros, who started filming Kanye West in 2016 as a teen, spent six years embedded within the rapper’s world, amassing over 3,000 hours of footage.

The result’s In Whose Name?, a documentary that pulls again the curtain on West’s most turbulent years — together with his break from remedy, antisemitic remarks, and tense moments with Kim Kardashian.

The movie, which opens Friday (September 19) in additional than 1,000 theaters nationwide, doesn’t draw back from West’s lowest factors.

In one scene, he rants after visiting the White House in 2018, carrying a MAGA hat, saying, “I need to go in the exact way that a foreign dignitary would go. I’m not going to step outside and put my life in danger. I put my life in danger by wearing the hat and I need to be loved and respected as such.”

Another clip exhibits Kardashian confronting West after that go to, telling him, “I’ve been crying all day — it’s just this bad dream that’s not ending. I’m not about burning bridges with companies. You’re going to wake up one day and you’re going to have nothing.”

West fires again: “Never tell me I’m going wake up one day and have nothing. Never put that into the universe.”

Ballesteros, now 26, insists the movie isn’t about West’s downfall.

“I didn’t make this to tell a story of descent or unraveling,” he instructed the Los Angeles Times. “I made it to tell a beautiful, deep story of an American figure.”

The documentary additionally consists of the second West made the antisemitic remark that price him his profitable Adidas deal.

On digicam, he says, “I can literally say antisemitic s### and Adidas can’t drop me.” The firm lower ties with him shortly after.

Ballesteros, who was by no means on West’s payroll and retained full rights to the footage, mentioned West welcomed fixed filming — even throughout dental appointments — and gave the ultimate lower his blessing.

“That doc was very deep. It was like being dead and looking back on my life,” West texted him after watching it.

Still, Ballesteros made it clear he doesn’t align with West’s rhetoric. “I don’t support antisemitism, obviously, or hate speech,” he mentioned. “He and I don’t share the same views…. We’re human. That’s really where I’m at. He’s a person — he’s a human.”

In Whose Name? premieres nationwide Thursday (September 19).

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