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LOS ANGELES \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
The musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, pleaded not guilty in a court appearance to three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer, the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
The charges were far more serious than initial reports that he was being investigated for a misdemeanor, and, with convictions, the counts could collectively bring a sentence of more than 10 years in prison for the singer and rapper whose \u201cOld Town Road\u201d was one of the biggest hit singles in history.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The criminal complaint filed in court Monday includes few details, but says that for each of the three officers he \u201cdid unlawfully use force and violence and inflict an injury\u201d on a person he \u201creasonably should have known\u201d was a peace officer \u201cengaged in the performance of a duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
He was being held on $75,000 bail, conditional on attending drug treatment. It’s not immediately clear whether he had posted it and been released yet. A message to his attorneys was not immediately answered.<\/p>\n
But one of them, Christy O’Connor, told a judge Lil Nas X has led a \u201cremarkable\u201d life that has included winning two Grammy awards.<\/p>\n
\u201cAssuming the allegations here are true, this is an absolute aberration in this person\u2019s life,\u201d O\u2019Connor said in court, according to NBC. \u201cNothing like this has ever happened to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The charges were first reported by TMZ.<\/p>\n
Hill is set to return to court on Sept. 15 for his next pre-trial hearing.<\/p>\n
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is best known for 2018’s country and hip-hop merging \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d which spent a record 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won him his Grammys.<\/p>\n
Known for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and style, his first full studio album, 2021\u2019s \u201cMontero,\u201d went to No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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