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Kanye West lashes out at photographer

Hip hop superstar Kanye West has been caught on video lashing out at a paparazzo.

West has a famously fraught relationship with photographers, only last week getting into a heated war of words after a lensman paid him a compliment.

Footage has now emerged showing an altercation between the rapper and a photographer at Los Angeles Airport on Friday.

The incident is now under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.

In the video, West is seen emerging from the airport wearing his hood up and a bag on his shoulder. As he makes his way towards a waiting car, the star is seen getting into an argument with one of the several photographers taking his picture.

West is then seen grabbing the paparazzo and attempting to take his camera, before he falls to the ground and West walks off.

The photographer is seen getting up moments later and running back onto the pavement.

 

 

 

Brazilian jujitsu instructor Samir Chantre was at the airport and revealed in an interview with the LA Times that the incident occurred about 2pm.outside the international terminal.

He explained: ''Five photographers started shooting pictures of him and one of them was over the microphone and was saying stuff to him.

''[Kanye] seemed like he was getting offended.''

Paramedics were called to the scene, with West leaving before police arrived.

Just last week, West lashed out in an angry rant when a paparazzo paid him a compliment about his music.

He snarled: "Don't talk to me. I don't want to hear paparazzi talk to me or anybody I know.

"Don't talk to me at all and don't talk to anyone I know at all and tell everybody, never talk to anyone that anyone knows. Don't talk to themselves, don't talk ever again!"

 

 

 

 

Watch footage of the altercation here: