Netflix's Kanye West documentary jeen-yuhs gets release date

After sharing various images and teaser clips from jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy over recent months, Netflix has shared the release date for the first part of the documentary that's been over 21 years in the making.

Alongside sharing another one-minute teaser trailer, Netflix announced that the first act of jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will be arriving on 16 February, and will mark the start of the three-week global event that will feature the release of the second and third part of the trilogy.

Step inside the journey of Kanye West, over twenty years in the making.

jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy — a once in a lifetime three-week global event — begins February 16 pic.twitter.com/3Ihp6mr7bs

— Netflix (@netflix) January 10, 2022

Rolling Stone reports that jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy will also get a US theater release on 10 February.

Billboard reported in April that Netflix acquired the documentary for $30 million from TIME Studios and film production duo Coodie & Chike (who directed West's "Jesus Walks (Version 3)" and "Through the Wire" videos).