LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Nas X stated Tuesday that his arrest and jail time had been “terrifying” in his first public feedback since he was charged with attacking Los Angeles law enforcement officials.
The 26-year-old rapper and singer whose authorized identify is Montero Lamar Hill pleaded not responsible to 4 felony counts on Monday and was launched on bail after spending the weekend in jail.
In a video posted to Instagram, he smiled and shook his head in disbelief as he stated “these last four days have been terrifying.”
However he added with fun, talking of himself, that “Your girl is going to be OK. She’s going to be alright.”
He didn’t deal with any specifics about what occurred, and his representatives haven’t responded to requests for remark.
Authorities stated Lil Nas X was strolling bare down a significant road in LA’s San Fernando Valley, and charged at law enforcement officials who had been responding to calls about him. A prison grievance says three officers had been harm, and he was charged with three felony counts of battery with damage on a police officer together with one rely of resisting an government officer.
He pleaded not responsible in a court docket look and was launched on $75,000 bail on the situation that he attend drug remedy repeatedly.
His lawyer informed a decide Monday that the allegations are an “absolute aberration” in an in any other case “remarkable” life.
He is set to return to court docket on Sept. 15 for his subsequent pre-trial listening to.
The rapper and singer from Atlanta is finest recognized for 2018’s nation and hip-hop merging “Old Town Road,” which spent a report 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and received him two Grammys.
Recognized for his genre-bending, innovating sounds and elegance, Lil Nas X’s first full studio album, 2021’s “Montero,” went to No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for a Grammy for album of the yr. Different hits have included “Industry Baby” and “Montero (Call Me by Your Name).”
