Kanye West has been arrested at Los Angeles airport on suspicion of felony vandalism, US reports claim.

According to TMZ, West smashed a photographer's camera has he tried to take pictures of the rapper in the American Airlines terminal.

West and his unnamed assistant are then alleged to have turned on another photographer who tried to film the incident.

In the altercation that followed, it's alleged that the assistant threw the video camera onto the crowd, breaking it.

Both are understood to have been taken into custody.