Busta Rhymes has been arrested for assaulting a man after performing at the Heineken AmsterJam Festival.

The rapper was taken into custody with two members of his entourage as they attempted to leave Randalls Island in New York where the show was being held, the New York Daily News reports.

Details regarding the assault remain unclear, but the police apparently took the opportunity to question Rhymes about another incident in February, when his bodyguard Israel Ramirez was murdered while on the set for the rapper's music video.

A source in the police department commented: "I don't know if this is normally something he would even be arrested for, but his bouncer was killed and he didn't want to cooperate. This is our way of dealing with it."