US rapper Kanye West has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of felony vandalism.

West is said to have smashed a photographers camera as he waited to clear security in the American Airlines terminal.

The rapper and his unnamed assistant are then alleged to have turned on another photographer, believed to be associated with the entertainment blog TMZ, who began filming the incident.

In the altercation that followed, it's claimed that West's assistant threw the photographer's video camera onto the ground, damaging it.

Both West and his assistant were taken into custody following the incident, according to the Associated Press.

(by Jason Gregory)