Key Takeaways:

• The documentary In Whose Name? captures Kanye West’s evolution by six years of intimate and public moments.
• Viewers get a behind-the-scenes take a look at pivotal occasions like Sunday Service and Ye’s presidential marketing campaign.
• Director Nico Ballesteros makes use of iPhone footage to discover Ye’s psychological well being, fame, and inventive course of.

Ye’s billion-dollar documentary, In Whose Name?, lastly has a launch date. On Wednesday (Aug. 13), the movie’s official trailer dropped with practically six years of fabric condensed into simply over a minute.

“I’m off my meds for five months now,” Ye says on the prime of the clip, adopted by what appears to be Kim Kardashian’s voice: “Your personality was not like this a few years ago!” Moments later, the Chicago rapper mirrored on how his Sunday Service idea got here to him whereas hospitalized.

“I’ve just been embarrassed or ashamed to cry, man,” he voiced over footage of himself in tears throughout Sunday Service at 2019’s Coachella. “When we’re at the prisons professing how Jesus can set you free, it’s true.” Unfortunately, issues solely go downhill from there, with the teaser capturing his turbulent presidential rally debut and him engulfed in flames throughout a DONDA listening get together.

“I’d rather be dead than to be on medication,” Ye continued. “Either they destroy me, or I destroy it.” Watch the total trailer under.

In Whose Name? was helmed by director Nico Ballesteros, who spent six years shadowing Ye with nothing greater than an iPhone. According to Deadline, he “would shoot thousands of hours of material” throughout that interval. The finish consequence, albeit messy at instances, is anticipated to unpack the “overlapping influences of corporate exploitation, racial complexities and psychological struggles inherent in the American dream.”

“What began as a silent observation evolved into a profound journey of artistic and personal growth,” the synopsis reads. “Immersed in Ye’s world of extremes, [Ballesteros] bore witness to brilliance and breakdowns, triumphs and turmoil, but also observed the paranoia and intensity that increasingly shaped Ye’s world.”

For followers seeking to relive Ye’s polarizing journey, In Whose Name? is about to hit roughly 1,000 theaters on Sept. 19.