Lil Nas X was taking a stroll through a Los Angeles hotel, where the rapper was not staying, in the hours before his mostly nude jaunt down Ventura Boulevard early Thursday ended in a hospitalization and arrest.

Security footage obtained by TMZ Hip Hop shows the 26-year-old Grammy winner, real name Montero Lamar Hill, donning a tee, jeans, cowboy hat and boots, at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday as he briefly dances outside the Short Stories Hotel, where he was not a registered guest.

The “Old Town Road” rapper then walks through the lobby and courtyard area, where he fans himself before heading back inside to get a drink of water. Onlookers move from a bench to let him sit. Nas then unbuttons and removes his shirt for a minute before heading back outside. He then strolls past the hotel shirtle

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