Rapper Kayne West was arrested on Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after he had a fight with the paparazzi that surrounded him as soon as he entered the airport. Kayne West lost its temper and grabbed the paparazzo’s camera, smashing it to the ground. The police arrested the rapper together with his manager, Don Crowley, at about 8 a.m.

They were to be investigated for felony vandalism and the prosecutors are expected to decide the charges they might face. Still, Kayne West was released from police custody on Thursday afternoon but his lawyer, Blair Berk, couldn’t say anything about what had happened.

The rapper and his manager were taken to a nearby Los Angeles Police Department station to be interviewed. Kayne West then left the police station in the afternoon in a black Chevrolet Suburban, trying to keep himself away from the paparazzo’s flashes.

The video made by some other paparazzi at the airport shows Kayne West and his manager pulling the camera from the paparazzo’s hands, while he is screaming “Police! Police! Help me!” Crowley smashes the camera to the ground and Kayne West throws down a flash. After this incident, Crowley tried to grab the camera from the guy who was filming the scene and broke it before the security arrived.

Because the video starts exactly from the moment of the altercation, nothing in it could shows us what started the fight in the first place. Marshall Lowe, the Los Angeles International Airport spokesman, told the Associated Press that the rapper and his manager had booked a flight to Honolulu, Hawaii, on Thursday morning. When the fight began, the two hadn’t even arrived to a screening checkpoint.

Charles Davis, a man who solicits charity donations inside the airport and witnessed the fight, said that the rapper was attacked by the paparazzi and all that the singer wanted to do was to defend himself. “The man just put the camera too close to his face. I don't blame him," Davis added.

The charity man said that he talks to Kayne West all the time and that he is a good man who helps the children by giving donations all the time. “He’s a good, kind heart,” Davis told the Associated Press adding that he didn’t believe that the camera was destroyed. "It was just knocked out of the man's hand," he said.

Kayne West, 31, has won nine Grammy Awards since he started his musical career and became a record producer for most rap and R&B stars. His debut album, “The College Dropout” was released in 2004. Since then he got his second album “Late Registration” in 2005 and his third one, “Graduation,” in 2007. The rapper gained fame, critical responses and many awards for the three albums.

The Grammy Awarded also has his own record label called “GOOD Music,” through which he succeeded in producing hit singles for Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Janet Jackson. Kayne West had a fight with MTV after he didn’t win any award after seven nominations last year at the VMA. But he performed this year too and so he made his reconciliation with the network. What would be an artist without publicity of any kind?