Snoop Dogg was one of dozens of artists expected to take the Exposition Park stage in Los Angeles on Saturday (December 18) as part of the Once Upon A Time In L.A. Festival. But tragedy struck when a fight reportedly broke out backstage and fellow performer Drakeo The Ruler was fatally stabbed in the neck.
The D-O-Double-G was scheduled to take the stage at 8:30 p.m. local time, but police had the backstage area blocked off with yellow crime tape by 9:20 p.m. while Drakeo The Ruler was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Festival organizers promptly shut the festival down without explaining why.
Hours later, Drakeo The Ruler was confirmed dead at just 28 years old. Snoop Dogg took to Instagram on Sunday (December 19) to address the tragic incident and explained why he immediately fled the festival grounds.
“I’m saddened by the events that took place last night at the Once Upon A Time in LA festival,” he wrote. “My condolences go out to the family and loved ones of Drakeo the Ruler. I’m not with anything negative and as one of the many performers, I was there to spread positive vibes only to my city of LA.
“Last night I was in my dressing room when I was informed about the incident and chose to immediately leave the festival grounds. My prayers go out to everyone affected by tragedy. Please take care, love one another and stay safe ya’ll. IM PRAYING FOR PEACE IN HIP HOP.”
Condolences are still pouring in on social media for Drakeo The Ruler with Drake, Juicy J and many others sending their condolences. Jim Jones, who shared an “RIP” post on Instagram shortly after the news broke, warned rappers to move different but was accused of being a hypocrite in the process.
“Rip to this brother drakeo this is sad,” Jones wrote. “To all rappers I urge u to protect urself start to move tactical. Preservation of life is everything they do not value our lives anymore we are targeted. They know who we are cause of our fame but we don’t know who they are because of our fame. I pray everyday I make it home to my family because it’s tht serious out here for us.”
Jim Jones Deemed 'Hypocritical' Following Drakeo The Ruler 'RIP' Post
He continued, “Feels like we lost a rapper every week this year. There was a time when we protected in th community we were treated as super hero’s not no more. Stay safe & stay dangerous I pray I never have to make a decision. Say ur prayers n move sturdy. Rappers have th most dangerous job in th world I stand on my statement.”
People were quick to point out Jones was allegedly involved in a brawl with Freddie Gibbs at Prime 112 in Miami just last week and is “part of the problem.” Drakeo The Ruler is one of at least 21 rappers murdered this year. HipHopDX sends our condolences to Drakeo The Ruler and his family.
Snoop Dogg does what Snoop Dogg does best “Run,Motherf*****,Run” Are y’all surprised? He’s made a career out of running away,hiding, snitching and switching sides. Ask the Rollin 20 Crips.
So he should keep it real for the streets instead of being a rich celebrity and protect himself and his family? He’s an entertainer why wouldn’t you do what you can to protect yourself, I’m sure he doesn’t care a dude on the internet thinks he’s not real
Idiot
He’s right tho about the Rolling 20s and him being a coward though. They been ran him out of Long Beach and then fact that Snoop didn’t does have a reputation of being only loyal to Dr Dre and that’s it. He pretty much turns trick on everybody else from LBC, To Death Row, To DJT, Gail King, To his Street Cred. Those are actual facts.
You people believe everything you hear. You want him to have ended up like this dude? He kept it real. Nobody ran him out of anywhere. Maybe that’ll do him good in his pine box.
I’m from LBC so I know what I’m talking about. You don’t know the hood politics out here. Trust me, Everything I said is true. Ask look up any Big U interview mentioning Snoop or What happened when Snoop tried to pull rank in LBC a few years back and the Rollin 20 Crips checked him, or the fact that he totally was disloyal and betrayed 2pac and Death Row after his death. All that happened. It’s not only in documentaries but it’s all over YouTube and on wax. So what’s your excuse now. I have more respect DJ Quik than I ever would Snoop even tho he a Bompton Blood, he was still street and followed the code (no betrayal or snitching), still rich, and a respected artist even tho he’s from the rival hood I still have to give him his prop credit and respect. I lost my last bit of that for Auntie Snoop when he became buddies with DJT and started doing all this walking back and apologizing for his Kobe Bryant comments to Gail King. He can’t keep disrespected the dead.
Snoop 50 with grandkids. You sound pretty ignorant to think he should have done anything but take his ass home after some shit that had nothing to do with him occurred.
Only trap rappers getting killed? Think about it most rsppers that are getting killed are in gangs or still in the streets. Or still play s part in the streets. Cole not getting killed, kendrick, cordae, ect. People want to rap and sell drugs. ONLY rappers that are in the streets still are getting killed.
Yep. You can barely call some of these people rappers, but everybody can get on now because of social media, and real musical artists have to respect it because they have a following. This dude basically just talked over beats and got a Drake feature this year. But this isn’t anything but street politics that got dealt with like always. LA has always been that way.
cRappers or drama queens
Your city of LA? You are from Long Beach and reside in Chino Hills. These are safer places to hold a show than the shitty area of Expo Park.
nah. he did nothing to deserve this…………………………………. nothing. deal to the moron who did this either the police or gang in prison just wait he will be the headline news.
51% of rappers die from murder. That’s an actual fact. That’s crazy.
A fact? Where did that fact come from? What level of success are we talking? I know a fuckton of old rappers that are still around and only have one friend who rapped who was murdered, so just curious where this number comes from.
I bet the rapper that got killed has an interview on VladTV. That site promotes negativity and unfortunately many rappers that have done interviews on there have gotten assaulted or killed. VladTV should just focus on positive questions but instead he always ask about violent situation, criminal acts or beef. No wonder he deleted the comment section. Not that this is VladTV’s fault but rappers these days are bringing more and more negative energy towards them and need to stay off social media and doing interviews unless it’s positive.
Shut your dumb ass up. You one of the vlad groupies let me guess he is the feds also you sound sooo fucking stupid your definitely a cuckold beta
When Suge was running LA there where no so much murders! FREE SUGE KNIGHT!
Snoop was always a skinny anorexic sheep in wolves clothing so it doesn’t really surprise me anymore that he ran. He was never one to stay for the real conflict. He’s always picked the easy ones and rolled with them but Everytime it looks like he might face a threat, he about faces and goes the opposite direction all together and either avoids it or tries to make peace by switching allegiances *Puffy* *Luke* *Eminem* *Suge Knight*,etc. Snoop Dogg is the Modern Day King of Flip Flopping.
So Snoop supposed to stay and lose everything he worked hard to build? He supposed to stay because he owe who what? See thats the problem with folks today, too busy tryna show how tough you are in these streets but these streets aint worth fighting for, Snoop is a family man and he did what was best SELF PRESERVATION…
If that were the case then he wouldn’t have kept cheating on his wife for all those years or started his own*successful* record label that wasn’t a parody of his rap career or been a true Dr Dre prodigy and learned how to produce music as well to increase his marketability. You can’t preserve a lump of sh*t, it just grows mold and turns grey like he did.
LOL. You’re a jealous and bitter loser. Snoop put out tons of artists, has won Grammys and is worth over 200M. All from his music. He is involved heavily in charity in Los Angeles, and is generally considered by all to be a good guy. He actually was the only one to stand up to Suge back in the day, and last time I checked him and his boys murdered some dude who was trying to rob them. Your job at Taco Bell sucks, and your sick of living at your moms house hearing some loser plow her every night. We know.
Better that Snoop exit the venue safely, as would any human being.
Were he to be harmed in any way, it would set white folks 40s-70s into a panic!
This IS an issue. We’ve got to stop all this racism, all this white on black crime and whatnot. SMH. At least ya’ll ain’t in country music, there’s been like 30 or 40 of them run over by lifted trucks this year.
@rob what white on black crime dummy? you know that the only real threat to black people are their own kind.
just good to know that darrell didn’t die directly from an attack. he was trying to stop one.