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Lil Nas X was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday after he was spotted walking down the middle of a street wearing nothing but his underwear and a pair of cowboy boots. 

In the early hours of August 21, onlookers saw the “Old Town Road” rapper, who is 26, behaving strangely on Ventura Boulevard in LA’s Studio City neighborhood. In video from scene, he struts and sings and tells a person to “come to the party” before saying, “Didn’t I tell you to put the phone down?” Several people reported the incident to police, according to TMZ, which was first to report the news of the arrest and to share the video. 

When officers responded, the two-time Grammy winner, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, apparently charged at them. He was subdued and arrested for battery on a police officer, KTLA reports. Paramedics then took him to the hospital because of a possible overdose. Lil Nas X and his team have not commented on the situation. 

Lil Nas X recently teased new music on social media

The arrest comes shortly after Lil Nas X broke his social media hiatus to share several snippets from new tracks. In one video shared on Instagram on Wednesday, he wears cowboy boots and a robe while banging a tambourine. 

“I want to live/ I want to fight/ I want to live a wondrous life/ I want to go/ I want to thrive/ I want to live a wondrous life/ Oh what a life, oh what a life,” he sings.

“The god of music dare i say? Me not jay z, no shade,” he captioned another post. 

In April, Lil Nas X shared that he had been hospitalized for partial facial paralysis. In a series of updates on Instagram, he said he’d “lost control” of the right side of his face, but that he was getting better. 

“It’s getting better ya’ll I promise,” he in one video, according to People. “It’s gonna take a lot more than that to keep a bad b*tch down.”  

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