{"id":165935,"date":"2025-08-22T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165935\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:41:11","slug":"lil-nas-x-arrested-after-being-found-nearly-naked-in-la-dw-08-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165935\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X arrested after being found nearly naked in LA \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/22\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/grammys\/t-19068258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grammy Award-winning<\/a> rapper Lil Nas X was arrested Thursday after allegedly charging at police officers who had found him walking in his underwear, police in Los Angeles said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were responding to reports of a nude man on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood when they found the artist, born Montero Lamar Hill, at around 6am local time, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief struggle in which he &#8220;charged at officers,&#8221; he was taken into custody and to a\u00a0hospital for a suspected overdose.<\/p>\n<p>He was then booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer and held in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the rapper did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Video published by TMZ appeared to show the artist in underwear and boots on the street, at one point placing a traffic cone on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking artist<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Lil Nas X rose to fame with his 2018 breakout hit &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a record 19 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first openly gay man to win a Country Music Association award for the song, which also earned him two Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>His debut album &#8220;Montero&#8221; peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2021 and earned a Grammy nomination for album of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Karl Sexton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Nas X was arrested Thursday after allegedly charging at police officers who had found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-165935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115071292975773476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}