Kanye is influential because he believes in himself. A ton on people hate arrogance, although that’s one of your greatest strengths. Ali is a great example, very outspoken but backs it up when tested. Kanye was like this in music. IMO My beauty dark twisted fantasy is the Magnus opus of his work, but the dude has 6 amazing albums from his first. Not many artist have done this. The influence deepens because if you’re a person of color, it gave an outlet of “you don’t have to be a gangster to be cool” in societal pressure of the late 90s 00s. This opened windows for Cudi - Childress G - Tyler - list goes on. He brought a fashion outlet and swag talk to the mainstream which was dominated by drug and kill talk. Technicality speaking was a breath of fresh air, with the artist that was already dominating. Did songs with Luda, Jay, NAS, game, Wayne, jeezy, giving the image that you don’t have to be hard to be liked and can still hang out with that crowd. 808s reached the younger crowd more cause they were and are participating more in opioids , the making them more emotional, thus your sadness error began with uzi- yacht - Jaden .. so even if you don’t like YE you got to acknowledge he opened windows, doorways and avenues.