Lil Nas X arrested for alleged battery on officer in LA, hospitalized for possible overdose

LOS ANGELES -- The Grammy-winning rapper Lil Nas X was arrested Thursday greeting successful Los Angeles connected suspicion of artillery connected a constabulary serviceman and hospitalized for a imaginable overdose, ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC has learned.

Officers responded soon earlier 6 a.m. to a telephone of a nude antheral walking successful the thoroughfare connected the 11000-block of Ventura Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The determination is conscionable westbound of the 101 Freeway, adjacent Vineland Avenue.

When officers arrived astatine the scene, the antheral charged toward them, said an LAPD spokesperson. The fishy was taken into custody and taken to a hospital.

The constabulary section did not merchandise the sanction of the suspect. Sources confirmed his individuality to KABC.

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Lil Nas X won video of the twelvemonth astatine the 2021 MTV VMAs. In 2019, helium galloped his mode to 2 caller records connected the Billboard charts acknowledgment to the monolithic occurrence of "Old Town Road."

The opus that bushed retired Mariah Carey and "Despacito" to go the longest-running No. 1 deed successful the past of the Hot 100 illustration and besides acceptable records connected Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs and Hot rap songs charts, respectively.

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