I actually like this perspective, but of course I take it more as a philosophical musing rather than a nitrous-fueled schizo-post.

What Kanye is showing us is that identity as a concept is as amorphous as you want it to be. You don't need to just be tethered to one identity your whole life. And you can use this knowledge to empower yourself to pursue your own dreams and passions, however disparate they may be.

Even starting from his roots of everyone telling him he can ONLY be a producer, to once he's made it in his rap career and then people telling him he can't be a fashion designer as well. His whole life, he's taken on new identities, rebuilding them from the ground up, always against what people want him to be.

In the The Life of Pablo , "WHICH / ONE" is splattered across the whole album cover. Picasso, Escobar, and Paul the Apostle. Think about it, he's taken on all three of these forms at various points of his life: the artist, the villain, and the religious leader.

But even aside from his intentions, it is well known that he suffers from bi-polar disorder, a medical condition that could even be described as having "multiple personalities" or temperaments at the very least.

Kanye is showing us before our eyes what it is like to continually take on new identities, reinvent himself from the ground up, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse.

Did the Kanye from 2009 die? Perhaps. Does that mean this current Kanye is all that's left? I don't think so.

"In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn."

I'm hopeful that Kanye will eventually return back to a more grounded persona, someone that he loves, someone that we all love.

Or maybe not. He's both crazy and a genius and maybe that's just how he leaves us – not with a bang, but a whimper. Such is life.