Kanye West doc with a ‘billion-dollar budget’ out in 2025: report

Rapper Ye’s troubling past six years volition beryllium explored successful a bizarre caller documentary astir the arguable rapper formerly known arsenic Kanye West, hitting theaters adjacent year.

Directed by Nico Ballesteros, “In Whose Name?” was reportedly made with an iPhone, “a billion-dollar budget and a committedness to truth,” according to the synopsis published by Variety. At the clip of publication, the movie was not listed connected IMDb.

Both Ballesteros and Utopia Movies, which besides distributed indie darlings “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “Shiva Baby,” shared a first-look representation successful a associated Instagram post. It features a silhouette, presumably of the 47-year-old Grammy winner, lasting successful beforehand of what looks to beryllium the sun.

The station besides featured a surface drawback of a substance said to beryllium from Ye, saying the movie is “very deep” and that watching it “was similar being dormant and looking backmost connected my life.”

Ballesteros has directed for Ye 3 times before, each successful 2021. He helmed the musician’s “Come to Life” euphony video, and his “Donda” TV specials astatine Soldier Field and the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

According to the synopsis, the movie boasts never-before-seen footage and acts arsenic an “unfiltered aspects of personage beingness which face the provocative opinions, expansive visions and bold contrarianism that defined him arsenic the world’s astir arguable artist.”

Ye’s mainstream stardom has waned successful caller years, pursuing repeated antisemitic and racist screeds, arsenic good arsenic different erratic and volatile behavior.

News of the doc comes connected the heels of the “Heartless” rapper settled with Adidas, aft the marque severed ties with him implicit said rants, and his erstwhile idiosyncratic adjunct accusing him of intersexual assault.

Lauren Pisciotta sued Ye successful June for intersexual harassment and wrongful termination. She amended the lawsuit past period to allege that Ye drugged and sexually assaulted her during a workplace league co-hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The Harlem-born mogul, 54, was taken into national custody successful mid-September connected sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Combs, who is currently locked up astatine Brooklyn’s notorious MDC, is besides at the halfway of aggregate lawsuits accusing him of rape, drugging, and different crimes.