The first queue for me was Storytellers, from 2009(off the back of 808's?). Watching the guy trying so damned hard to articulate feelings and convey emotion, he's not great with eye contact, there's a clear disconnect between what he says and how it's interpreted, which then leads into angry and very public outbursts, he's a natural savant at anything he sets to learning(coding, production, fashion), he carries the chassis of someone who is both desperate to make a meaningful change in the world but is simultaneously frustrated by continued resistance to his ideas and message. He's an analytical thinker but not great at communicating. The key to better understanding what he means when he says something like 'I am a god' is in his music, a forum in which he used to at least be able to articulate himself comfortably and competently. Marrying up broad and off-putting statements with ideologies expressed in his flow.
Frankly he's been steadily moving off the rails since his mum died and unless he can find someone to fill that mentor/safety role we're never gonna see good, classic Kanye again. Mending fences with Dash was a good start IMO.
Re the original pitched question; Yeah Kanye's Conscious, it's just in an a barely-scrutable, very self-aware way.