WASHINGTON: Rapper Chris Brown was due in a local Washington, D.C. court on Monday to face a felony assault charge stemming from a fight outside a hotel, the latest legal run-in for the Grammy-winning singer.

Brown, 24, was arrested early on Sunday outside the upscale W Hotel, a few hundred yards from the White House. Another man involved in the fight, Christopher Hollosy, 35, described in news reports as Brown's bodyguard, was also arrested and charged with felony assault.