Lil Nas X Arrested After Wandering Naked In Los Angeles Street And Charging At Officers, Police Say

"Old Town Road" rapper Lil Nas X was arrested and taken to nan infirmary early Thursday greeting aft he was stepping successful a thoroughfare without his apparel connected and charging astatine officers successful Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Department told NBC News successful a connection that officers responded to nan 11000 artifact of Ventura Boulevard conscionable earlier 6 a.m. successful respect to reports of a nude man. Police said that nan man charged astatine officers erstwhile they arrived connected nan scene.

“He was transported to a section infirmary for a imaginable overdose and placed nether apprehension for Battery connected a Police Officer,” constabulary said.

A rule enforcement root acquainted pinch nan investigation confirmed to NBC News that nan fishy was Montero Lamar Hill, different known arsenic Lil Nas X. Hill besides punched an serviceman doubly successful nan look during nan encounter, according to nan source.

Officers were unsure whether Hill was connected immoderate substances and/or whether he was successful intelligence distress, nan root said.

Booking records were not instantly disposable for Hill successful nan Los Angeles County database. A typical for Hill did not instantly respond to an NBC News petition for remark connected Thursday.

Hill was seen stepping down nan mediate of Ventura Boulevard successful Studio City astatine 4 a.m. connected Thursday successful conscionable a brace of achromatic briefs and cowboy boys connected video released exclusively to TMZ.

In nan videos released by TMZ, Hill told nan driver to “come to nan party” successful 1 clip and past successful different tells nan person, “Didn’t I show you to put nan telephone down?”

“Uh oh, someone’s going to person to salary for that,” Hill said arsenic he continues to locomotion away.

In immoderate clips, Hill struts arsenic if he’s connected a catwalk, posing for onlookers and astatine 1 constituent places an orangish postulation cone connected his head.