Kanye West still sorry for stage-crashing Taylor Swift

Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year - and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter, The Associated Press reports.

West unleashed a torrent of emotions on his official Twitter account yesterday, acknowledging once again that he was wrong for jumping on stage, taking the trophy that Swift won at the MTV Video Music Awards and saying that it should have gone to Beyoncé.

But the rapper-producer said that he has experienced enormous pain, been the subject of death wishes and suffered a setback to his career.

The Grammy-winning star had been one of the decade's most successful and critically acclaimed artists, despite boorish behavior and meltdowns at awards shows when things did not go his way.

However, when he upstaged Swift the public had had enough. There was tremendous backlash against West - even from President Barack Obama. At the time, he went on "The Jay Leno Show" to apologize and said he still had not recovered from his mother's untimely death two years prior.

On Twitter, West talked about the backlash. After the incident, he said, "People tweeted that they wish I was dead . . . No listen. They wanted me to die people. I carry that."

West said he's now "ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone." He also apologized to Swift again, and said he has written a song for her that he hopes she will perform. "If she won't take it then I will perform it for her," he said.

West is working on a new album that is supposed to come out this fall. A recent member of Twitter, West has been an active user.

"I've always been at the mercy of the press but no more," he tweeted yesterday.