Lil Nas X's dad, Robert Stafford, has spoken out about the rapper's arrest and denied that his son was using drugs before his run-in with police. Stafford was stopped by reporters while leaving a courthouse in Van Nuys, California, on Monday, August 25, and asked whether Lil Nas X, 26, had taken any "illegal drugs" prior to his hospitalization and arrest last week. "Absolutely not," Stafford responded.