{"id":86483,"date":"2025-08-22T03:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86483\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:05:06","slug":"lil-nas-x-arrested-and-taken-to-hospital-in-la-after-reports-of-naked-man-in-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86483\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X arrested and taken to hospital in LA after reports of naked man in street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rapper Lil Nas X is being held in a Los Angeles jail after police said he charged at officers responding to a report of a naked man walking on a boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The performer, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was booked on suspicion of obstructing an officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officers found him walking on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighbourhood shortly before 6am, Los Angeles police spokesperson Officer Charles Miller said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was initially taken to hospital for treatment for a suspected overdose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">There was no further word on his condition, but he was released from the hospital and taken to jail after just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Video obtained by TMZ appeared to show him on the street wearing only underwear and boots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Messages to Mr Hill&#8217;s representatives seeking comment were not immediately answered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 26-year-old rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for his huge hit from 2018, Old Town Road, which merged country and hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">It spent a record 19 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Known for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and style, his first full studio album, 2021&#8217;s Montero, went to number two on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Nas X is being held in a Los Angeles jail after police said he charged at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,64540],"class_list":["post-86483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-lil-nas-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}