Rapper DMX has been slapped with additional charges, following his arrest in connection with an attempt to steal a car at New York's JFK airport.

Prosecutors filed drug and weapons charges against US rapper DMX, a day after he was arrested for allegedly impersonating a federal agent and harassing another man in an airport car park.

Rapper and actor DMX was arrested on charges that he and another man tried to steal a car in a parking lot at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, authorities said.