Ten-time Grammy Award-winning American rapper is in Hawaii after being released following acts of violence by him and his staff in the American Airlines terminal at LAX. He is due in court Oct. 2 to answer to a felony vandalism charge after smashing up a photographer's camera (or a detachable flash by other accounts).

The singer left in a private flight to Honolulu from Van Nuys Airport. On his blog, Kanye West claims he is cool with paparazzi, but alleges that "this guy" (probably the man he viciously attacked) wasn't cool. What is not cool is Kanye's repeated violent outbursts which prove every few months that this man is disregarding any respect for others and the law. Unfortunately, the American justice system will probably leave him unpunished at all after the incident.

Kanye West and one of his bodyguards were arrested at Los Angeles International Airport Thursday morning after they had been involved in a scuffle with a paparazzo, which left a camera valued at more than $10,000 in pieces and a photographer roughed up.

The singer and his road manager, Don Crowley, were released Thursday afternoon from the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division on $20,000 bail. Both men were charged with felony vandalism, according to a spokesperson for the airport's public-relations office. However, it appears that while Crowley indeed smashed a professional camera, Kanye destroyed a detachable flash, which may not meet the $400 threshold required under California law for vandalism to become felony.

Kanye West was being taken by his security at the American Airlines check-in area, sometime just before 8 a.m. Apparently, they were met by a throng of paparazzi, who were trying to get a glimpse of the hooded singer. TMZ claims that there were two paparazzi involved, one of whom was their own. They allege that Kanye destroyed the camera of another photographer and noticed that TMZ's man was taping the whole thing and went over to break up his camera too. West's posse tried to get away but were stopped by police.

Kanye West was also violent during interrogations, when police had to restrain him after lunging towards one of the paparazzi during questioning.

The incident also renewed calls for some sort of well-defined protocols concerning celebrities and paparazzi at the Los Angeles International Airport. Ever-increasing throngs of photographers are lingering around, waiting for some celebrity to board a plane, disrupting normal airport activities, just like celebrities and their posse do.