FILE - Lil Nas X arrives at the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday March 27, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, is arraigned in court, next to his attorney Christy O'Connor, on four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Frederic J Brown/Pool Photo via AP)
Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, is arraigned in court on four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Frederic J Brown/Pool Photo via AP)
FILE - Lil Nas X arrives at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Lil Nas X arrives at the 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday March 27, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, is arraigned in court, next to his attorney Christy O'Connor, on four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Frederic J Brown/Pool Photo via AP)
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Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, is arraigned in court on four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Frederic J Brown/Pool Photo via AP)
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FILE - Lil Nas X arrives at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Lil Nas X appears at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards in New York on Nov. 1, 2021. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.
Prosecutors charged the musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer, the District Attorney’s Office said. He was initially booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer on Friday.
He is set to be arraigned later Monday. His representatives have not responded to requests for comment.
Police said officers found the 26-year-old walking naked on Ventura Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in the Studio City neighborhood, shortly before 6 a.m. Friday,
They say he charged at the officers when confronted and was arrested. Police, suspecting a possible overdose, took him to a hospital where he spent several hours before being taken to jail, where he has remained since.
The charges were first reported by TMZ.
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for his huge hit from 2018, which merged country and hip-hop. It spent a record 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Known for his genre-bending, innovating his first full studio album, 2021’s “Montero,†went to No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.
