UPDATE — 8/21/25 7:51 p.m. ET: Lil Nas X has been charged and booked following his hospitalization.
Following his launch from the hospital, Lil Nas X was charged with a misdemeanor and booked at 11:22 a.m, in accordance with the reserving report obtained by People.
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Lil Nas X has reportedly been hospitalized after roaming Los Angeles streets in his underwear.
A Los Angeles Police Division spokesperson confirmed to Us Weekly that officers responded to calls a couple of “nude man strolling on the street” on Ventura Boulevard simply earlier than 6 a.m. on Thursday, August 21. In keeping with police, Lil Nas X (actual identify Montero Lamar Hill) tried to “batter an officer, so he was booked for battery of a [peace officer].”
TMZ reported that the “Outdated City Street” rapper, 26, was transferred by police to a hospital for remedy. As soon as launched from the hospital, Lil Nas X is anticipated to be formally charged and booked by the LAPD.
Viral footage of the incident confirmed Lil Nas X inserting a site visitors cone over his head as he muttered about going to a celebration, in accordance with TMZ.
Us Weekly has reached out to Lil Nas X's representatives for remark.
Lil Nas X spoke overtly prior to now about his household's historical past with habit and his personal use of marijuana whereas mourning fellow rappers Nipsey Hussle, XXXTentacion and Juice Wrld. (XXXTentacion and Hussle had been each shot useless, in 2018 and 2019, respectively, whereas Juice Wrld died of a drug overdose in December 2019.)
“A lot occurred throughout my rise,” he informed Variety “You understand, medicine and murders. And my grandmother passing [in 2018] — she was the primary particular person near me who died. It was devastating. And it made me a hypochondriac: I'd get up, coronary heart racing. It was scary.”
Lil Nas X in June 2024. Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures
In that very same interview, Lil Nas X recalled how he began “smoking [weed] closely” as a approach to self-medicate throughout that troublesome interval.
“Then I began feeling extra linked with the universe, and taking the whole lot as an indication,” he remembered.
Extra just lately, the musician has skilled important well being points. Lil Nas X revealed in April that he'd been hospitalized as a result of he'd “misplaced management of the fitting aspect of [his] face.”
The 2-time Grammy Award winner shared pictures the place the fitting aspect of his face was motionless in contrast with to the left. Two days later, Lil Nas X provided a optimistic replace on his well being when he confirmed he'd regained some motion in his facial muscle tissue.
“I've been chewing loads so I can get this muscle stronger,” he mentioned by way of an Instagram video. “It's a lot better, it's a lot better. My eye nonetheless has to play catchup. However like, I may give a real smile, in order that's good.”
After Dave Chappelle made enjoyable of Lil Nas X‘s “Montero” video in his new comedy particular, the “Outdated City Street” singer mentioned the comic must recover from it. Chappelle, 50, had a bit about Lil Nas X, 24, in The Dreamer, his new comedy particular, which premiered on Netflix on Sunday, December 31. Chappelle […]
Lil Nas X has spent the previous three years prepping the discharge of his second studio album, Dreamboy, which is anticipated to incorporate collaborations with Beyoncé, Jermaine Dupri and Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee Nile Rodgers. No launch date has been introduced but.
His 2021 debut album, Montero, went double platinum within the U.S. and reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Montero was nominated for Album of the Yr on the Grammy Awards, whereas lead single “Montero (Name Me by Your Identify)” acquired nods for Report of the Yr, Music of the Yr and Greatest Music Video on the 2022 ceremony.
