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A brand new documentary about Kanye West is providing an unsettling have a look at the rapper’s battle with psychological sickness and the ultimate days of his marriage to Kim Kardashian.
The movie, titled In Whose Identify?, opened in theaters throughout the nation this week, and a few viewers have left the theater shaken by Kanye’s excessive habits.
One scene specifically has led many to the conclusion that relations between Kanye and his in-laws have been a lot worse than we’d been led to consider.
Kanye West and Kris Jenner attend the Givenchy present as a part of the Paris Trend Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2016/2017 on March 6, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photos)
The movie paperwork Kanye’s life from 2018 to 2024, a tumultuous interval through which he turned extra outspoken in his political views, and his troubled marriage got here to an finish.
Kanye launches verbal assault in opposition to Kris Jenner throughout surprising meltdown
The movie’s climactic Kanye vs. Kris battle reveals the rapper hurling virtiol at his then-mother-in-law and boasting of his refusal to take his treatment.
“Y’all demasculated me and made me feel like a piece of s–t,” Kanye shouts in footage obtained by TMZ.
“And the only reason you got away with it is because I was medicated.”
From there, Kanye ranted a couple of latest go to to a psychiatric hospital.
Kris Jenner and Kayne West attend the Vogue ninety fifth Anniversary Social gathering on October 3, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photos for Vogue)
“No one from the family is taking any responsibility for my hospital visit, but if you wanna go online, that’s 50 percent of what people say. At least,” he yelled, including, “Am I lying?”
When Kris replied that “it doesn’t matter,” West actually started to scream.
“It does matter!” he shouted time and again as Kris famous that she hadn’t been allowed to correctly clarify herself and, in actual fact, hadn’t “finished a sentence.”
“It matters to us and you. It doesn’t matter what the internet says. It matters what we think, Ye,” Kris finally clarified.
Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photos for The Recording Academy)
Kanye reveals darkish aspect in self-produced doc
We’ve recognized for fairly a while that Kanye has critical anger points.
However the movie — which, curiously sufficient, was co-poduced by Kanye — reveals the total extent of his rage for the primary time.
In a distinct scene, we see Kanye conflict with Saturday Night time Reside star Michael Che backstage after one in every of his appearances on the present.
Che, it appears, was upset when West hijacked the present for one in every of his pro-Trump rants.
Kanye’s pal and fellow rapper Consequence was in a position to intervene earlier than the state of affairs received out of hand.
It’s unclear why Kanye would enable himself to be depicted in such an unflattering mild.
However as his confessions over the summer season reminded us — the person is nothing if not brutally trustworthy.
