Clarence "Coodie" Simmons and Chike Ozah recently sat down with Tamron Hall to speak about their film, jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, including Kanye demanding creative control.
Coodie explained, "It was like heartbreaking at first, but I told Kanye when I met with him in [the Dominican Republic] that the story is not about him and it’s not about me, or Chike, or J. Ivy. This story’s about, for all the dreamers, and we’re just the blueprint of how you can have the confidence and movement and faith with God walking with you, with Christ walking with you to get to where you need to go."
Coodie added, "So when he did say he wanted creative control, the only thing I could say was, 'Trust God.' Trust God, period. You can't stop what’s ordained by God. When he said that, I just knew that we were going to hold our ground and we were going to keep moving and we're here now."
While some might have thought that Coodie and Chike were on the outs with Kanye over the back-and-forth over creative control of the film, Coodie assured otherwise. He stated, "Yeah, we’re definitely still… I mean, he’s always going to be a brother. I’m six years older than him, so he’s always going to be my little brother really, and when I can reach out to him, I will, and I have been, like sending him different quotes and things like that people might send me. But one thing about Kanye is when it comes to telling him not to do something, he wants to do it even more."
