India, Aug. 31 -- Lil Nas X's father, Robert Stafford, has broken his silence after his son's "breakdown" and recent arrest. The rapper was recently charged with four felonies after allegedly charging at police, who confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.

Prosecutors charged Lil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer, the district attorney's office said. Initially, he was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer.

Stafford told the Sunday Times in an interview, "I went to visit him in jail, and as soon as I walked through that door, I couldn't do anything but cry. To see...