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\n\tLil Nas X has been charged with three counts of battery against a police officer.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe rapper, whose real name is Montero Hill, was arrested on Thursday morning after he was seen roaming the streets of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, nearly naked and seemingly delirious. At the time, he was booked on a misdemeanor of obstructing an officer and was jailed through the weekend at the Valley Jail in Van Nuys, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff records.<\/p>\n
\n\tHill\u00a0is is in court on Monday to enter a plea and is expected to be released on bail. He\u2019s been charged with battery, which could be a felony or misdemeanor depending on the circumstances of his arrest, and resisting a law enforcement officer. The former carries a sentence of up to one year in prison and a fine, both of which could be increased if an officer was injured, constituting a felony. <\/p>\n
\n\tAfter his arrest, the artist was taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose and was later discharged before being taken to a jail.<\/p>\n
\n\tHill was first caught on camera by TMZ in the early hours of Thursday morning, strutting down a near-empty Ventura Boulevard, wearing nothing but underwear and a pair of white cowboy boots.<\/p>\n
\n\tLil Nas X, who released his Days Before Dreamboy <\/em>EP back in March, has been struggling with health issues throughout 2025. Back in April, he shared an update on social media saying he\u2019d suffered partial facial paralysis. A month later, he had to cancel a headlining appearance for West Hollywood\u2019s Outloud pride music festival. One source tells THR <\/em>that a similar mental health issue had contributed to him pulling out of the event. At the time the cancellation was announced, the festival said in a statement that \u201cwe\u2019ve been in close contact with Lil Nas X and his team regarding an ongoing medical issue.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAfter my recent hospital visit, I \u2013 like all of you should \u2013 must prioritize my health and getting back to 100%,\u201d the rapper said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n \n\tMore to come<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lil Nas X has been charged with three counts of battery against a police officer. The rapper, whose real name is Montero Hill, was arrested on Thursday morning after he was seen roaming the streets of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, nearly naked and seemingly delirious. At the time, he was booked on a misdemeanor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5718,651,5330,9337,10270,5397,1551],"class_list":{"0":"post-17741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-battery","10":"tag-charged","11":"tag-lil","12":"tag-nas","13":"tag-officer","14":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}