Lil Nas X arrested and taken to hospital after wandering LA streets in underwear

Getty ImagesAward-winning rapper Lil Nas X has been arrested after an altercation with police in Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed. Police have been referred to as to Ventura Boulevard at 05:30 native time on Thursday after reviews of a person strolling down the road in his underwear, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Division (LAPD) stated. After officers arrived on the scene, LAPD allege the Previous City Street singer “charged” at them and was positioned underneath arrest on suspicion of battery.He was then taken to hospital for therapy for a doable overdose. The BBC has reached out to his representatives for remark. Unverified video of the star on Thursday morning was printed by TMZ, which featured the singer dancing on the street in simply his underwear and cowboy boots, and welcoming individuals passing by to “come to the occasion”.The rapper is anticipated to launch his much-anticipated second studio album Dreamboy later this yr, teasing his new music on Instagram forward of the drop. Born Montero Lamar Hill, Lil Nas X turned the primary brazenly homosexual man to obtain a Nation Music Affiliation award, after he gained with Previous City Street in 2019. The music additionally gained two Grammys and broke the file for the longest-running primary music on the Billboard Scorching 100, after 17 weeks on the prime of the charts.The singer has courted controversy all through his profession, with conservatives within the US calling the music video for his hit single Montero (Name Me By Your Identify) “wicked” and “evil”.The singer responded with a faux apology video on YouTube, which reduce into Montero’s notorious lap-dancing scene, and wrote on Twitter that he wished his haters’ tears to “fill my Grammy cup”.