Rapper Lil Nas X was arrested and briefly taken to a hospital for a suspected overdose on Thursday after Los Angeles police say he charged at officers responding to a report of a naked man walking on a busy boulevard.
Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was booked on suspicion of a misdemeanor obstructing an officer and was being held in jail.
Officers found him walking on the normally very busy Ventura Boulevard in the Studio City neighborhood shortly before 6 a.m., Los Angeles police spokesman Officer Charles Miller said.
After charging at arriving police, he was taken into custody, but the officers, suspecting a drug overdose, took him to a hospital first, Miller said. There was no further word on his condition, but he was released from the hospital and taken to jail a