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Drake is probably the biggest artist in the entire world at this point. Overall, he can do pretty much anything he wants in the entertainment world. There are only a few people who would dare tell him “no” when he asks for something. As it turns out, Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah are two of those people. We know this because they detailed their experience with Drake, during a recent interview with Samson Shulman. Full disclosure, this was not a negative experience or anything like that, it was simply an interesting footnote in the grand scheme of their most famous project.

Simmons and Ozah are the two geniuses behind the Kanye West Netflix documentary, Jeen-Yuhs. As they explained in the podcast episode below, Drake got an early showing of the documentary. Subsequently, he hit up Ye asking if he could be the narrator instead of Coodie. Ye and Drake had just reconciled, so there was this new feeling of respect between the two. However, Simmons and Ozah knew it was a bad idea. Moreover, the public roasted Kanye when he suggested it over Twitter.

Drake Got Denied

“Then, when we did the premiere and Kanye seen the piece, he was like, ‘Man, I can’t believe Drake thought he could narrate this movie,’” Simmons explained. “And Drake thought he could do it in a week… You know how long it took and how much writing it took to get to that point? He’s great, Kanye’s great, but we great too.” In the end, the right decisions were made as Coodie’s voice is almost as iconic as the visuals itself.

The three-part documentary is some of the best content that Netflix has picked up in quite some time. Simmons took a whole lot of footage during Ye’s early days in the industry, and you can’t help but love how it turned out. While West has taken a turn for the worse over the past year, at least fans can look back on the Jeen-Yuhs doc fondly.

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Love Is Blind viewers thought they’d never see the footage of the live reunion special. It was later revealed that this was due to the extreme technical difficulties faced by Netflix. But reality television enthusiasts aren’t the only ones anxious about the streaming giant. A short clip of the show featured in Ye’s (formally known as Kanye West) 2022 Netflix documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is at the center of a new lawsuit, according to TMZ.

A Chicago woman named Cynthia Love is seeking $30,000 in damages from the three-part series directors Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah as well as Netflix. Love, who had appeared in the video for Ye’s breakout single “Through The Wire,” which was also directed by Simmons, claims in the lawsuit that the extended version of her used in the series shows her in an “altered state” in which she “was not capable of providing consent.”

The defendant alleged that when the footage was first captured, she was compensated $20. Her appearance in the music video was minor as she is seen dancing in what appears to be a restaurant while not in a right state of mind. Love shared that use of the extended footage shows her “dark past” from which she’s worked nearly two decades to escape.

Love insists that she was not personally contacted for consent to use the extended footage, claiming Simmons told her son “he assumed she was dead” instead of trying to contact her before the documentary was released.