Kanye West Releases New Documentary Last Week

Kanye West has shared a 30-minute documentary titled Last Week, filled with candid scenes from West’s business and personal life. Watch it below. In the intro, a Kanye West–style character explores a Japanese criminal underworld while riffing on video-game tropes. Then the film pivots into a reality format, with West hearing pitches, securing business deals, and driving around listening to his own music.

In one new song, West raps, “You a fake bitch/You don’t really love Ye, go listen to Drake, bitch/You don’t have no idea what it take, bitch/Go listen to Lil Baby, go listen to Future, bitch.” A later lyric adds Moneybagg Yo to the formula.

In an early scene, West plays a pornographic video in a meeting with two Adidas executives, to illustrate a supposed similarity between one of the executives’ voices and the actor’s. The apparent power play disrupts the formalities of the meeting. Afterward, a man on West’s team expands upon West’s long-running allegations that Adidas has stolen his ideas. “What you’re feeling right now is extreme discomfort, and that is exactly the point,” the man says. “Because when someone steals this man’s ideas, his creations, it’s like you’re stealing a child. These are all children of his mind, and you’ve kidnapped them.”

It is unclear whether the meeting took place before or after Adidas’ announcement last week that its relationship with Yeezy was “under review,” which followed a string of controversies, including the debut of West’s politically inflammatory “White Lives Matter” shirts at Paris Fashion Week.

In Last Week, West goes on to visit a prospective campus and HQ for Yeezy Christian Academy, his highly controversial school in Los Angeles. He proposes “Dondafying” the space by removing all the lights and swapping out stairs for ramps, then confides in Yeezy investor Shervin Pishevar about his difficulty being kind to people. Later in the film, he goes to see North West play basketball at a school and the Kardashian-West family briefly reconvenes.

The doc arrived in the early hours of Monday morning (October 10), shortly after West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted for posting content described as “dangerous” and “antisemitic” by the Anti-Defamation League. Pitchfork has emailed West’s representatives for further information on the film.