Appears to be like like whoever known as the cops on Lil Nas X final week wasn’t exaggerating once they reported the Grammy winner as a “nude man strolling on the street.”
Preliminary video posted final week by TMZ confirmed the performer sporting solely tighty-whities and white cowboy boots, strolling and posing on an L.A. road simply earlier than dawn — and simply earlier than his arrest on suspicion of charging at a police officer. But it surely seems that’s not the precise situation he was in when regulation enforcement took him in.
In new video TMZ posted over the weekend, the “Previous City Street” singer will be seen strolling down the center of a road absolutely bare, having shed the boots and underpants that had barely lined his modesty. (That he disrobed explains how a involved citizen-slash-amateur videographer was in a position to snatch his boots up from off the road and listing them on the market on EBay, in search of $10,000 — or finest supply.)
Within the new footage, Lil Nas X recites some Nicki Minaj lyrics from the Kanye West tune “Monster” as he struts runway-style towards the individual taking pictures the video, who seems to be within the driver’s seat of a automotive.
“And if I’m pretend, I ain’t discover ‘trigger my cash ain’t / So let me get this straight, wait, I’m the rookie? / However my options and my reveals 10 instances your pay? / 50K for a verse, no album out,” Lil Nas X says within the video.
An LAPD spokesperson informed The Occasions final week that the 26-year-old, who was arrested round 6 a.m. Thursday, initially was taken to a hospital for a potential overdose. Lil Nas X was booked just a little over 5 hours later and in the end spent the weekend in a Van Nuys jail pending a courtroom date Monday to set bail.
Each the LAPD and Los Angeles Fireplace Division responded to the scene on Thursday. LAFD didn’t give The Occasions further details about the singer’s situation.
The performer, whose actual title is Montero Lamar Hill, was arrested on suspicion of battery on a police officer after he allegedly charged at officers who responded to the decision. Though TMZ reported that he was being held on a misdemeanor, on-line arrest information listing him as being held on a felony rely.
Representatives for Lil Nas X didn’t reply instantly to The Occasions’ request for remark Monday.
His arrest got here quickly after he apparently wiped his Instagram grid of outdated pictures and posted a pair dozen new ones, together with a selfie posted Tuesday of himself sporting a fur coat, brilliant purple lipstick and each a cowboy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 posed in entrance of a backlit mirror in a gold robe, white cowboy boots and a tiara.
“And identical to that she’s again,” he wrote in that caption. “We’ve all waited so lengthy. When dreamworld wanted her essentially the most.”
Occasions employees writers Alexandra Del Rosario, Christopher Buchanan and Richard Winton contributed to this report.
