Lil Nas X’s Dad Says Fame is to Blame For Son’s Naked Meltdown

Lil Nas X‘s father is coming to his son’s protection, saying the rapper’s very public meltdown whereas strolling bare in Los Angeles is as a result of immense pressures of the music enterprise, in response to a brand new report.

Robert Stafford sat down with The Sunday Times for his first interview since Nas bailed out of L.A. County jail final Monday — and he straight addressed his son’s “breakdown,” which he blames on the leisure business.

Stafford says he understands how the music biz works as a gospel singer and warns … “It’s like a high. When you get to that level, you want that drug again, you want to hit that high again.”

Stafford additionally claims Nas is coping with all of the pressures of making an attempt to maintain up together with his early success as an artist, successful 2 Grammy Awards and different accolades.

Not solely that … however Stafford says Nas is the first bread winner who’s tasked with supporting his household, whereas additionally grappling together with his mom’s drug habit.

What’s extra, Stafford described what it was like to go to Nas in jail, inflicting each to interrupt down in tears. He mentioned, “To see my child boy on the opposite facet of that tumbler. We shed tears with one another for a minute. And I needed to inform him that ‘what you’re going by is regular.'”

As we first reported … Nas was caught on digicam sashaying bare down an L.A. avenue within the wee hours of August 21. Nas then allegedly assaulted 3 cops who had been making an attempt to take him into custody after receiving a report of a person probably on medicine.