Kanye Creates a New Beat in Real Time in jeen yuhs Unreleased Scene

While Kanye West, who has changed his legal name to Ye, is best recognized today as an ultrafamous rapper and a polarizing public figure, his origins as a producer for the likes of JayZ, Mos Def, and Lil Kim cant be overlooked. In fact, its Wests tireless quest to be taken seriously as a rapper and not just a producer that provides rich fodder for JeenYuhs, Netflixs threepart documentary about the artist. (JeenYuhs is produced by TIME Studios, the film and television division of TIME. ) For as hard as he worked to break free of being boxed in as a producer, theres no denying that Wests production skills wereand still areexceptional. And while West manifested the career as a rapper that he always dreamed of (with 22 Grammy wins to date), over the course of his nearly three decades in the music industry, his production has still had an outsized influence on the sound of the zeitgeist, both through his own albums and others. In an exclusive clip that didnt make the final cut of Jeen