Lil Nas X charged with 4 felonies after hospitalization

Editor's note: This story was originally published at 11:33 a.m. PT and has been updated to reflect new information.

Lil Nas X has entered a plea of not guilty for all four charges.

Lil Nas X waived his arraignment and pleaded not guilty to three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting arrest, according to the AP.

His bail has been set at $75,000, and the judge is requiring him to attend four Narcotics Anonymous meetings per week.

Lil Nas X's lawyers spoke outside the courthouse, saying the rapper has no history of criminal behavior.

"He's never been in trouble for a split second in his existence, we're not going to let one little event change the trajectory of his amazing life, attorney Drew Findling said, per The Hollywood Reporter. "There's no way to have a sense of what happened this immediately, but we're going to look into it and do the right thing."

He asked people not to "judge somebody by the worst moment in their life," and said "there's no way for us to know right now" if Lil Nas X was under the influence of drugs at the time of his arrest.

"Anybody that has kids, you hear about things like this all the time," he said. "Don't forget, he's 26 years old. It's not unusual for something like this to happen, particularly when you have the pressure of being recognized internationally like him."

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Lil Nas X could be facing prison time after being charged with four felonies.

The rapper and pop star, whose real name is Montero Hill, was taken into police custody and subsequently hospitalized on suspicion of a drug overdose last week.

Early in the morning of Thursday, August 21, police responded to reports of a man reportedly walking down Ventura Boulevard naked — and, at other times, just wearing underwear — in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. TMZ released footage of Nas X walking down the street wearing underwear and cowboy boots while singing, dancing, and making incoherent statements.

When police arrived, they say Lil Nas X charged them.

A law enforcement source said that Lil Nas X "punched an officer twice in the face during the encounter," according to NBC News.

Lil Nas X was handcuffed, thrown to the ground, and forcibly hospitalized.

Now, he is being charged with four felonies. Lil Nas X is being charged with three counts of battery against a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer, according to LA Superior Court records.

Felony level battery against a police officer is punishable by a fine of up to $10,000, by imprisonment for up to three years, or "by both that fine and imprisonment," according to the California Penal Code.

The latest reports indicate that Nas X is being held in jail without bail. He also has an arraignment hearing in Van Nuys, where bail may be explored as an option.