Suspecting a drug overdose, police took the 26-year-old rapper and singer to a hospital before booking him into jail.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES \u2014 Rapper\u00a0Lil Nas X was arrested<\/a> and briefly taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose Thursday after Los Angeles police say he charged at officers responding to a report of a naked man walking on a busy boulevard.<\/p>\n Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer and was being held in jail.<\/p>\n Officers found him walking on the normally very busy Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood shortly before 6 a.m., Los Angeles police spokesman Officer Charles Miller said.<\/p>\n After charging at arriving police, he was taken into custody, but the officers, suspecting a drug overdose, took him to a hospital first, Miller said. 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 Video obtained by TMZ appeared to show him on the street wearing only underwear and boots.<\/p>\n He was being held at Valley Jail in Van Nuys, near where the police found him.<\/p>\n Messages to Lil Nas X representatives seeking comment were not immediately answered.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for his huge hit from 2018, \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d<\/a> which merged country and hip-hop. It spent a record 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n