Kanye West is not getting his way regarding his request to approve the final cut of the upcoming release of the Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye West Trilogy. 

Last month, the Chicago rap icon took to Instagram to demand final approval of the film ahead of its release on February 16. 

The three-part documentary chronicles the life and career of Kanye West through never before seen footage captured over the last 20-plus years by longtime friends and filmmakers Coodie and Chike. 

“I’m going to say this kindly for the last time,” Kanye wrote. “I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix. Open the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image. Thank you in advance.”

The filmmakers are not caving into West’s demands. According to Rolling Stone, the duo refuses to let anyone, including West, take over the creative control of their film.  

“Me and Chike have a company called Creative Control,” Coodie said. “Because you don’t want to lose your creative control.” He added, “God has the final cut.”

The duo revealed they weren’t given a heads up about Ye’s Instagram post, but they weren’t entirely shocked either, Chike calling the rant a promotional “blessing.”

“If Kanye wasn’t as polarizing of a character as he was, we wouldn’t have an interesting doc,” Chike said. “This just comes with the territory. This is Kanye’s personality, so you just embrace it, and then it’s going to take us, take us wherever it takes us…. This is the person that we’re dealing with. We all know what we’re dealing with.”

Codie said he bumped into Kanye on Tuesday (February 1), but Ye didn’t mention anything about the film. 

“I asked him, ‘Did he watch the film?’ And he said, ‘I have a process,’” Coodie joked. “I said, ‘That’s great that you got your process.’ And we just talked as brothers from that point.”