If you were hoping to see 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg’s Once Upon a Time Festival in LA, you went home disappointed because thanks to as stabbing backstage, the whole festival was canceled.
It isn’t unusual for rival crews to have beef at concerts, but it led to a local LA rapper’s death this time.
TMZ has the details on what happened.
L.A. rapper Drakeo the Ruler is dead after a stabbing at the Snoop Dogg-headlined Once Upon a Time festival concert … TMZ has learned.
Drakeo was one of the dozens of billed performers at the huge all-day event Saturday in L.A.’s Exposition Park.
He was backstage around 8:30 PM when a fight broke out — and during the altercation, he got stabbed … according to law enforcement sources
We’re told LAPD, California Highway Patrol and the fire department responded, and Drakeo was rushed to a hospital — but multiple sources tell us he died from his injuries.
There are reports he was stabbed in the neck.
If you aren’t familiar with Drakeo, The Ruler.
Darrell Caldwell (December 1, 1993 – December 19, 2021), known professionally as Drakeo the Ruler, was an American rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He was known for his unique flow, as well as his “oddly expressive, poetic word-choices”, leading the Los Angeles Times to call him “the most original West Coast stylist in decades.”
His fourth mixtape, Cold Devil, has been streamed over 10 million times.
After recording a handful of mixtapes with much more of a trap influence than the West Coast hip hop he became known for, he was discovered by DJ Mustard, who remixed his song “Mr. Get Dough”. The song, which premiered on WorldStar in April 2015, became his breakout song,[2] and has amassed over 6.2 million YouTube views (as of August 2019). Six months later, in October, Drakeo release his official debut mixtape, I Am Mr. Mosely, as his first project under Mustard’s 10 Summers label.
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