Lil Nas X has pleaded not guilty to four felony charges after police said he charged at officers when they confronted him for walking naked down a street in Los Angeles last week. The musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was charged on Monday with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer, according to the district attorney's office.
Police said officers found the 26-year-old walking naked on Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighbourhood shortly before 6am on Friday. They allege he charged at them when confronted and was arrested. Suspecting a possible overdose, officers took him to a hospital where he spent several hours before being taken to jail, where he has remained.
He is being held on $75,000 bail, conditional on attending drug treatment. It was not immediately clear whether he had posted bail. His attorney, Christy O'Connor, told a judge that Lil Nas X had led a 'remarkable' life, including winning two Grammy awards. 'Assuming the allegations here are true, this is an absolute aberration in this person's life,' O'Connor said in court, according to NBC. 'Nothing like this has ever happened to him.'
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for his 2018 hit 'Old Town Road', which spent a record 19 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut studio album, 'Montero', released in 2021, reached number two on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.
