He would purposely color fruit the wrong color to challenge perceptions: purple bananas, blue oranges. (“You never put no man over me / And I love you for that, mommy, can’t you see?” he rapped on “Hey Mama.”) Kanye’s artistic talent was obvious early on-he won local talent shows on a perennial basis-as was his penchant for rejecting the status quo. She and Kanye moved houses frequently, with the young Kanye alternately pushing Donda towards and away from her romantic interests. In Chicago, Donda became a faculty member at Chicago State University. But above all, Jeen-Yuhs shows how Donda West deeply shaped each of those facets of Kanye’s life and many more, serving as the driving force behind his creativity, spirituality, self-confidence, and ambition.

( Jeen-Yuhs is produced by TIME Studios, the film and television division of TIME.) The docuseries reveals many aspects of West’s career: his shattering of early ’00s hip-hop conventions his perseverance following a devastating car crash his recent political ambitions. While Kanye has sung and spoken plenty about Donda over the years, their relationship has perhaps never been chronicled with as much clarity and emotional resonance as it is in Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, a docuseries about West that arrives on Netflix on Feb. It included clips of her speeches and a mournful 50-second a capella chant of her name. Last year, West named his 10th studio album Donda, released 14 years after his mother’s unexpected and tragic death. Long before his debut album, The College Dropout, West wrote a song to his mother, Donda, entitled “Hey Mama,” which he premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005. It’s far from breaking news that Kanye West is a mama’s boy.

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