Musician Lil Nas X pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges after police said he assaulted officers who approached him while he was found wandering the streets of LA in his underwear.<\/p>\n
A Los Angeles judge set bail at $75,000 and said the Old Town Road singer must attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Police said they believed Lil Nas X was using drugs at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
His attorney, Christy O’Connor, however, said the singer was not taking illegal drugs and that the episode was an aberration in his life.<\/p>\n
On Friday, prosecutors charged the musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer, the District Attorney’s Office said.<\/p>\n
The rapper was initially booked on suspicion of obstructing an officer. Police said officers found the 26-year-old walking naked on Ventura Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in the Studio City area. They say he charged at the officers when confronted and was arrested.<\/p>\n
Police took him to a hospital where he spent several hours before being taken to jail, where he has remained since.<\/p>\n
The charges were first reported by TMZ.<\/p>\n
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for his huge hit from 2018, Old Town Road, which merged country and hip-hop. It spent a record 19 weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n
Known for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and style, his first full studio album, 2021\u2019s Montero, went to number two on the Billboard album chart in the US and was nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year.<\/p>\n
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