{"id":44527,"date":"2025-08-22T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/lil-nas-x-arrested-for-battery-of-a-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:27:28","slug":"lil-nas-x-arrested-for-battery-of-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/lil-nas-x-arrested-for-battery-of-a-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X Arrested for Battery of a Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The artist was hospitalized for a possible overdose after charging at officers on Thursday morning<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X<\/a> was arrested Thursday morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/los-angeles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_los-angeles\" data-tag=\"los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>, according L.A. County Sheriff inmate records. He is being held at the L.A. Police Department\u2019s Valley Jail section in Van Nuys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-possible-overdose-1235413370\/\">hospitalized<\/a> for a possible overdose after charging at officers in Studio City on Thursday morning. Hill was handcuffed before being transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/21\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-possible-overdose\/\">video<\/a> shared by TMZ, the 26-year-old was filmed walking on Ventura Boulevard\u00a0in his underwear and a pair of white cowboy boots, incoherently speaking to the person taping him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cUpon arrival, the suspect charged at officers and was taken into custody,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lapd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lapd\" data-tag=\"lapd\">LAPD<\/a> told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/21\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-possible-overdose\/85761900007\/\">USA Today,<\/a> although they did not identify the suspect at the time. \u201cHe was transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose and placed under arrest for Battery on a Police Officer.\u201d Officer Drake Madison\u00a0later confirmed to the outlet that the incident was related to Hill\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA rep for\u00a0Lil Nas X\u00a0did not immediately respond to\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPrior to the arrest, Lil Nas X had dropped a series of bizarre posts on his Instagram page, after deleting all earlier posts two days before. On Wednesday, he shared unreleased music alongside mirror selfies, his art, and piles of junk in what appears to be his home. His display name had been updated to \u201cQUEEN MADELINE.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis is the second reported hospitalization for the artist this year. In April, Hill posted a video from a hospital bed this April, saying he had suffered from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-partial-facial-paralysis-1235317882\/\">partial facial paralysis<\/a>. The rapper never shared publicly what caused the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-arrested-battery-police-officer-1235413724\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist was hospitalized for a possible overdose after charging at officers on Thursday morning Lil Nas X was arrested Thursday morning in Los&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}