In Whose Name?, the limited-release documentary painfully and explicitly documenting the implosion of the artist once known as Kanye West, almost didn’t make it to theaters.
Nor to any screen for that matter. After a bout of public antisemitism in 2022 in which the rapper-mogul-producer-aesthete now known solely as Ye threatened to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” one early distributor instantly pulled the plug, as director Nico Ballesteros’s manager recently told GQ. This episode is not to be confused with the antisemitism controversy of 2025, when Ye released a single titled “Heil Hitler.”
No one else would bite, and those close to the film’s production began to wonder if it would ever be released. Its fate fell into limbo until Simran Singh, a music
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