Lil Nas X was taking a stroll through a Los Angeles hotel, where the rapper was not staying, in the hours before his mostly nude jaunt down Ventura Boulevard early Thursday ended in a hospitalization and arrest.

When the interviewer asked Lil Nas X’s mother about her son’s recent controversy and video, Tamekia responded that someone had already told her. The YouTuber showed her the video, to which she reacted by calling Nas “my doobie.” The rapper’s mother also affectionately remarked: