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A new scene from Kanye West’s upcoming documentary In Whose Name? shows the rapper in a screaming match with his then-mother-in-law, Kris Jenner. The film, shot between 2019 and 2025, appears to capture some of West’s most raw and unfiltered moments.
In the clip, Kanye tells Jenner he would “rather be dead” than take medication. He yells that the drugs made him feel “demasculated” and “like a piece of s***.” He also claims the Kardashian family was only able to “get away with things” because he was medicated. Jenner, at first, tries not to argue, but the conversation quickly spirals.
West brings up his 2016 hospitalization, saying the family never took responsibility and that half the internet blames them. When Jenner responds that “it doesn’t matter” what people online think, West begins shouting “It does matter!” again and again, cutting her off.
Corey Gamble, Jenner’s boyfriend, can be heard in the background trying to calm things down. Jenner insists that what matters is what they think as a family, not the internet. As she speaks, Kanye storms out, grabs a sweatshirt and a red MAGA hat, then comes back to ask her directly, “Did you have an effect on my mental health?”
At that point, Jenner breaks down crying. Through tears, she tells him, “Yes. Yes. Yes. I’m saying yes. And I love you. I love you.” She adds that she doesn’t want him to feel less than perfect and that she wants her daughter Kim Kardashian “to love you the way you want her to love you.”
Kanye and Kim were married from 2014 to 2022 and share four children together: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm. During their marriage, Kanye was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, though in the documentary he claims it was “really a case of autism.” That statement alone has stirred new debate online.
Kim also appears in the film. In one trailer clip, she tells him, “Your personality was not like this a few years ago.” In another, Kanye cuts her off mid-sentence, shouting, “It ain’t no but!”
With filming covering such a long and turbulent stretch of his life, In Whose Name? is expected to feature many more moments just as tense and uncomfortable.