Lil Nas X will remain in prison this weekend after his arrest and hospitalisation this week in Los Angeles.
On Thursday (August 21), the rapper was reportedly spotted walking down the street in his underwear in Studio City in the early morning hours. Los Angeles Police Department officers attempted to approach him, at which point Lil Nas X reportedly charged at them. He was placed in handcuffs and escorted to hospital to be treated for a possible overdose.
A video shared by TMZ appeared to show the rapper – real name Montero Lamar Hill – speaking incoherently as he walked down the street around the same time.
Now, The Hollywood Reporter have confirmed that Hill will remain behind bars until Monday (August 25), with LAPD citing a law concerning resisting or obstructing an officer. “The arrestee cannot be cited out,” police said. “It is mandatory that he appear before a judge before he is released. This will happen on Monday.”
A previous police statement said that Hill had “charged at officers and was taken into custody. He was transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose and placed under arrest for battery on a police officer.”
The incident came just days after Lil Nas X deleted his Instagram history and renamed his account ‘QUEEN MADELINE’. He had since posted a number of images of artwork and shared clips of possible new music.
In April, the rapper suffered partial paralysis in the right side of his face, explaining in a social media post that he had “lost control” of some muscles. A few days later, he said he had regained some of the lost movement, telling fans that he had been instructed to chew gum to strengthen his muscles.
He released the ‘Days Before Dreamboy’ EP in March via Columbia Records, which was intended to be the latest step of a new album campaign that launched in late 2024 with the ‘Light Again’ single. That was followed by ‘Need Dat Boy’ and ‘Hotbox‘.
‘Days Before Dreamboy’ acted as a prelude to ‘DREAMBOY’, which has yet to receive a release date but had been expected to arrive sometime this year.
It will be his first full-length album since his 2021 debut ‘Montero’, which included the hit singles ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ and ‘Industry Baby’ with Jack Harlow.
In a three-star review of that album, NME wrote: “Mostly, it’s refreshing to see Lil Nas X in a different, more reflective light, but in asserting himself so strongly as a Serious Artist, he occasionally forgets about the touch of magic that made him one in the first place.”
