Grammy winner Lil Nas X’s stroll via Studio Metropolis early Thursday morning led to his hospitalization and his arrest on suspicion of charging at a police officer.
The 26-year-old musician, recognized for hits together with “Outdated City Highway” and “Trade Child,” was transported to an area hospital for a potential overdose, an LAPD spokesperson confirmed to The Occasions on Thursday. Police didn’t affirm the singer’s identification however instructed The Occasions that at round 5:50 a.m., officers responded to the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard to reviews of a “nude man strolling on the street.”
TMZ, which first reported on the singer’s hospitalization, shared video of the singer (actual title Montero Lamar Hill) strutting on the street down a principally empty Ventura Boulevard sporting solely white underpants and cowboy boots. Police alleged that the “suspect charged at officers” upon their arrival, and he was taken into custody.
The Los Angeles Hearth Division additionally reported to the 3700 block of North Cahuenga Boulevard the place they picked up the musician, a spokesperson confirmed to The Occasions. The spokesperson didn’t share further details about the singer’s situation.
Police booked the singer on the LAPD’s Valley Jail part in Van Nuys later Thursday morning on suspicion of misdemeanor battery on a police officer. A consultant for Lil Nas X didn’t instantly reply to The Occasions’ request for remark.
Within the clips shared with TMZ, the “Name Me By Your Identify” artist speaks to a driver behind the digital camera a few social gathering and repeatedly tells him to place away his cellphone. Lil Nas X additionally posed with an orange site visitors cone over his head, as seen in pictures printed by TMZ.
Lil Nas X, who broke out in 2019 with the viral “Outdated City Highway” that includes Billy Ray Cyrus, was hospitalized earlier this yr after he stated in a since-expired Instagram story that he had “misplaced management” of the proper aspect of his face. He reassured followers, “It’s getting higher y’all, I promise.”
On Tuesday, the singer additionally seemingly wiped his Instagram web page of outdated posts and shared 26 pictures and movies. A number of new posts appear to level to a brand new chapter in his music, together with a short snippet of his track “KIMBO” that includes Lil Jon. His current pictures take a extra cryptic method, with a number of that includes random gadgets scattered in numerous elements of a room.
Lil Nas X additionally posted a selfie on Tuesday of himself sporting a fur coat, brilliant crimson lipstick, and each a cowboy hat and crown. “OH NO sHES GONE MAD! CRAZY I TELL U!,” he captioned the publish.
In one other picture, Lil Nas X poses in entrance of a backlit mirror as he wears a gold robe, white cowboy boots and a tiara.
He wrote within the caption: “And identical to that she’s again. We’ve all waited so lengthy. When dreamworld wanted her probably the most.”
Occasions workers writers Christopher Buchanan and Richard Winton contributed to this report.
