At just 18 years old, aspiring filmmaker Nico Ballesteros was given the opportunity to follow one of the most famous people in the world in Ye (formerly Kanye West).

Ballesteros whittled 3,000 hours of footage from about 2018 to 2024 in West’s pocket to a two-hour documentary, In Whose Name?, which is a raw, unflinching look behind the curtain of one of music’s most mercurial, brilliant, polarizing and chaotic acts.

The documentary arrived in about 1,000 theaters across the U.S. on Friday (Sept. 19). There’s no shortage of cameos, with appearances from Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, LeBron James, Drake, Chris Rock, Diddy, Rihanna, Elon Musk, Pharrell, Swizz Beatz, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, Anna Wintour, Virgil Abloh, Playboi Carti, Marilyn Manson and Justin Bieber.

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