Lil Nas X breaks silence after ‘terrifying’ arrest in Studio City, Los Angeles
Rapper Lil Nas X has broken his silence for the first time since he was arrested by police when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street on Thursday.
The musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, pleaded not guilty on Monday in a court appearance after he was accused of injuring a police officer while roaming the streets of Studio City, in nothing but his underwear and a pair of white cowboy boots.
“Your girl is gonna be okay, y’all,” Hill said in an Instagram story post.
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“That was f...ing terrifying. That was terrifying. That was a terrifying last four days. But your girl is gonna be alright.”
Hill was arrested after being found walking around on the normally very busy Venture Boulevard in a concerning state shortly before 6am.
Video obtained by TMZ showed the rapper strutting down the street, and at one point, holding an orange cone over his head.
After charging at arriving police, he was taken into custody, but the officers, suspecting a drug overdose, took him to a hospital first, Los Angeles police officer Charles Miller said.
He was released after posting a $US75,000 (A$115,600) bail, conditional on attending drug treatment.
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for 2018’s country and hip-hop merging Old Town Road, which spent a record 19 weeks at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won him his Grammys.
Known for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and style, his first full studio album, 2021’s Montero, went to No.2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.
- With AAP
