{"id":1973345,"date":"2025-08-21T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1973345"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:19:24","slug":"lil-nas-x-arrested-for-battery-of-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/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><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grammy-winning rapper, singer and songwriter Lil Nas X has been arrested, according Los Angeles County Sheriff inmate records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d rapper, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was found early Thursday morning in the Studio City area on Ventura Boulevard, according to public information officer Charles Miller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cUpon arrival the suspect 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,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lil Nas X is being held in the Valley Jail in Van Nuys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">celebrity.land has reached out to his representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The artist who came to fame for his 2018 viral hit \u201cOld Town Road\u201d with Billy Ray Cyrus has been as much a provocateur as music artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/music\/news\/lil-nas-x-grammys-old-town-road-1203469735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2020, he talked to Variety;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2020, he talked to Variety<\/a> about the struggles he had endured since becoming famous, including the losses of fellow artists Nipsey Hussle, XXXTentacion and Juice Wrld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSo much happened during my rise. You know, drugs and murders,\u201d Lil Nas X told the publication at the time. \u201cAnd my grandmother passing (in 2018)\u2014 she was the first person close to me who died. It was devastating. And it made me a hypochondriac: I\u2019d wake up, heart racing. It was scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also said he started \u201csmoking (weed) heavily\u201d as a way to self-medicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBut then I started feeling more connected with the universe, and taking everything as a sign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more celebrity.land news and newsletters create an account at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/register?source=external-feeds_iluminar&amp;cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo&amp;registration_email_campaign=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">celebrity.land.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-winning rapper, singer and songwriter Lil Nas X has been arrested, according Los Angeles County Sheriff inmate records. The \u201cIndustry Baby\u201d rapper, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was found early Thursday morning in the Studio City area on Ventura Boulevard, according to public information officer Charles Miller. \u201cUpon arrival the suspect charged at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1973346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[351720,327538,351627,351785,351787,351786],"class_list":["post-1973345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-charles-miller","tag-grammy-winning-rapper","tag-lil-nas-x","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","tag-nipsey-hussle","tag-public-information-officer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lil-Nas-X-arrested-for-battery-of-a-police-officer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}