Why Kanye's Sound Kept Changing?

Why did Kanye West's music change so completely, so many times? Not "he reinvented himself" — what actually caused each turn. A car crash, a budget, the size of the room he was playing, the people in the studio, and his mother's death. Every change in this catalogue has a cause you can point at. CHAPTERS 0:00 Two songs, nine years apart 0:50 He was a producer first 1:49 Sped-up soul 2:54 The crash 4:01 Money bought instruments 5:03 The room got bigger 6:06 His mother died 7:13 Exile 8:13 He broke it on purpose 9:18 He stopped finishing 10:14 No label, no studio 11:28 Why it kept changing IMAGE CREDITS — Wikimedia Commons, cropped and animated. CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... — Crew crew, Dayron Villaverde from Miami USA, DiscoA340, GazeboJake, Maurizio Fabbronone, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain — 2xUeL, Airat Ichmouratov, Mister macphisto, Western Pennsylvania Conference. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... — 1904.CC, Sony Music Entertainment. CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... — Bex Walton, Brandon Winters, Bryan Pocius, Damian Morys, Dejan Krsmanovic, Ernest from Santiago, EuskadikoOrkestra, Kenny Sun, Mike Barry, Pete Brown, Peter Hutchins, Pieter-Jannick Dijkstra, Robb1e, Rory from Glasgow, Ryan Dickey, Shaheen Karolia, Shixart1985, The Come Up Show, aaronisnotcool, araza123, david_hwang. CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... — Cosmopolitan UK. Album artwork appears briefly to identify the records discussed. Narration, music and sound effects are synthesised; no commercial recording or lyric is used.