By Jade Watkins
PUBLISHED: 09:27 EST, 19 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:46 EST, 19 July 2013
Unearthed audio of another vitriolic Kanye West rant has emerged online.
The 36-year-old rapper was secretly recorded while dining with friends at the Corner Bistro in New York's West Village after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, according to Gawker.
He famously ambushed Taylor Swift on stage during her Best Female Video acceptance speech, complaining that Beyoncé deserved to win the gong.
And it seems he continued to rage about the decision after the show in the company of his friends.
He also took aim at Pink, bitterly complaining that she appeared onstage at the VMA Awards while he wasn't asked to perform his hit track, Heartless.
In the leaked audio, Kanye is clearly heard screaming as he goes on an expletive-ridden rant.
He reasons with his pals that Taylor should not have been privy to winning the gong all whilst referring to his own 'hard' work.
'When I heard Eminem's verse on the Drake s***, I went back and rewrote my s*** for two days,' he screams.
'I canceled appointments to rewrite! I f***in' care! You know what I'm saying? And that's what I'm saying.
'Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé. As long as I'm alive!
'And if I'm alive, kill me then! Kill me then! As long as I'm alive, you gonna have to deal with it," he rants.
The rapper is also heard sprouting off about about how he didn't get invited to perform at the VMA's, despite having massive success with his song, Heartless.
In the second rant, he takes aim at Pink who had done two stage performances that night.
'What the f*** was Pink performing? Don't nobody know that song. Pink performed twice! Two songs? How the f*** Pink perform two songs and I didn't even get asked to perform 'Heartless'?' he asks to anyone in the crowd.
'Heartless' is the biggest song of the year! It had the most spins of the first quarter! I don't know that Pink song!'
Kanye, who had told Jay Leno on his talk show following the ordeal that he was struggling with the loss of his mother Donda, who died in 2007 due to cosmetic surgery complications, is also heard blaming the industry for her death.
When asked by one of his pals why he was so angry, Kanye also takes aim at MTV, who had invited him to the VMA's in the first place.
'(I am angry) because my mother got arrested for the f***in' sit-ins. My mother died for this fame s***! I moved to f***in' Hollywood chasing this s***. My mother died because of this s***. F*** MTV,' he yells.
Following his onstage ambush back in 2009, Kanye apologised to Taylor after President Barack Obama called him a jackass over the incident.
The U.S. President voiced his opinion on the shameful act, which was beamed live to 27 million households in America, and shortly afterward the rapper finally did the decent thing and called the country star.
Despite saying sorry on his blog and talking about the incident on TV, it took him two days to speak to Taylor and offer a personal apology.
He phoned her to apologise for leaping on stage and ripping the microphone from her hands to declare that Beyonce should have won her award.
Taylor had appeared on TV show The View where she admitted that she had been 'rattled' by his onstage hijack and said he hadn't apologised to her.
'He has not personally reached out or anything but if he wanted to say hi (I would),' she said.
'I'm not gonna say that I wasn't riled by it. I had to perform live five minutes later so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform.'
The shamed star then called Taylor, and she accepted his apologies, according to publicists from the show.
Kanye subsequently took a massive drubbing following the awards ceremony.
While he issued two apologies on his blog after the incident, he gave another, emotional one on NBC premiere of The Jay Leno Show.
The President's colourful remark, where he called West a 'jackass', was made during an interview with U.S. network CNBC and was meant to be kept off the record.
But the comment leaked out to news sites after a reporter from rival network ABC posted the comment on micro-blogging site Twitter.
'Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential,' reporter Terry Moran wrote.
Kanye made an impromptu appearance on Jay Leno's late-night show to apologise to Taylor, saying he wanted to say sorry to her in person.
The rapper said he was sorry for being 'rude'.
Kanye told Leno he was planning to take a break from the music industry and to assess his behaviour, which he partly sought to excuse with the recent death of his mother Donda.
As the host introduced his guest, he said: 'This really wasn't planned but Kanye wanted to talk, so please welcome Kanye West.'
When he sat down, Leno said to him: 'Tell us about your day. Have you had a tough day today?'
His voice cracking, Kanye said: 'It's been extremely difficult, just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist - or from anyone.
'But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyse how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that's something I have to deal with.
'It was rude, period.
'And, you know, I'd like to be able to apologise to her in person. And I wanted to...'
Kanye appeared on the verge of tears when asked what he thought his late mother would have said about the incident.
Donda West, 58, died in November 2007 from complications following cosmetic surgery.
When Leno asked when he knew he was doing something wrong, West replied: 'As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn't keep going.'
The talk show host then asked if he thought his mother would have been disappointed in his behaviour.
After pausing for several seconds, he said: 'Yeah.
'Obviously, I deal with hurt.
'And you know, so many celebrities, they never take time off. I've never taken the time off to really - you know, just music after music and tour after tour.
'I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt - and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. That's period.
'I only wanted to help people. My entire life, I've only wanted to give and do something that I felt was right.
'And I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong and it wasn't a spectacle. It was actually someone's emotions that I stepped on.
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