Drakeo The Ruler (real name Darell Caldwell) is reportedly dead after being stabbed in the neck during the Once Upon A Time In L.A. Festival at Exposition Park on Saturday night (December 18). The West Coast rapper was initially in critical condition at a nearby hospital, but TMZ reports he has since succumb to his injury.
According to the Los Angeles Times, public information officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department Margaret Stewart said paramedics responded to a call about a stabbing around 8:40 p.m. local time and one person was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
A source with direct knowledge of the incident confirmed Drakeo The Ruler was “attacked by a group of people at the music festival and seriously injured.”
The organizers of the festival swiftly shut the event down after the fight erupted backstage. As premature rumors of Drakeo The Ruler’s death circulated on Twitter, the festival issued a statement via Instagram, saying, “The Once Upon A Time In LA Fest is ending early. All performances are now over. Please head to the closest exit and head eastbound on MLK.”
Drakeo The Ruler In Critical Condition After He's Stabbed In The Neck At Once Upon A Time In L.A. Festival
Drakeo The Ruler was scheduled to perform alongside dozens of acts, including Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, The Game, Cypress Hill, Ice Cube and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Snoop Dogg was expected to take the main stage at 8:30 p.m. but was running late. By 9:20 p.m., police had swarmed the backstage area and the show was over.
Drakeo The Ruler was just 28 at the time of his death. His passing comes just over a year after he was released from prison.
HipHopDX sends our condolences to Drakeo’s family and all those who cared about him. This story is still developing.
At this point it’s gotta be a “so what” thing. At this point you have to look at anybody in the rap music industry as a criminal looking to join a criminal enterprise. I don’t see any difference between signing a record deal with a rap label and joining an active gang and pretty much every known rapper is two or three degrees away from murder and consipiracy charges just by playing a show or appearing on somebody’s record. Rap is public enemy number one and it’s a tool to destroy black youth and black culture from the inside out. It’s a cancer that has to be fully removed from our culture, starting with the gangsters at the top. Snoop should face charges here. It was his show
Pull up your skirt
sound like your dead gangster heroes making stupid jokes while bleeding out on instagram
You fucking internet hateful white man on a hiphop site snake racist trolling bitch as pussy!!!!! HIPHOP DX SHOULD BAN THESE HATEFUL SNAKES ON HERE DOWNING OUR PEOPLE EVEN IN DEATH!!!! WHERE ARE YOU EVEN FROM YOU WEAK PUSSY SMELLING ASS TROLLING INTERNET TOXI CANCEROUS BITCH ASS!!!!
Fck you. Downing what people? You can cry as much as you want but some felon white people made famous to destroy the art of rap music doesn’t represent “our” people at all unless your people are felons and criminals
Your a dumb mother fucker your people down themselfs by promoting this shit to the youths instead of actual conscious thought which you seem to be lacking yoi whiney little bitch
stop trollin…
R.I.P
Sad. But how the hell does Wikipedia update so fast. He barely died an hour ago and there is a hyphen and D.O.D?
Honestly I have heard of the guy for some reason but never heard his music like a lotta these new school rappers. I checked his shit out on YouTube and I’d say he sounds like the mumble version of Rappin 4-Tay. RIP
These felons and hoodlums turn everywhere into a prison yard. so-called gangsta culture has never been anything other than a small subsection of black and latino folks amped up by pop culture similar to outlaw bikers and that whole leather and tattoo culture. How are you supposed to play a show at a festival with these type of performers on the bill? Everywhere these gangster people are just becomes a prison yard. Dudes brawling and shanking each other. And of course anybody can do anything to us now because it’s expected. It’s a disgrace to rap music. Black people need to be in survival mode and if rap music is the enemy – get rid of it.
who? I thought that souljir booi was drakeo the ruler? ha ha ha
Apparently Karma is a fat white bitch with good credit. R.I.P.. Don’t do murder or name yourself after guns kids. At this point there should be a question mark after BLM.
You’re here talking about BLM like one has to do with the other. Go watch a Jake Paul fight or something. BLM is not your issue, it’s black people. And there’s nothing you can do about black people other than sulk, pout troll and act like the loser and shut in you clearly are.
Wow. You’re a bit slow huh? BLM stands for BLACK LIVES MATTER. I might be mistaken, but is this guy black? What are the Vegas odds that he was murdered by other black people, this shutting down the show for thousands of people. There were no cops to stop it. Defund the police? A BLM thing? One has nothing to do with the other? Black people have nothing to do with BLM? Who said something to do about black people or sulking dummy? I was talking about a movement. Doesn’t one thing not have anything to do with the other? You sound confused. LOL.
no one cares about you – we all know it’s the same guy posting on every article with the same stupid anti black point of view. you’re a maggot the internet belched up to all of our dismay. People like you have to stay in a basement posting hateful sht. you can’t be out in public. it’s only in comment sections that you can exist
RIP. Wild that they didn’t have a tighter unit for security, considering politics in LA. Or shit in general.
This is ridiculous. We’re setting ourselves back 25 years with these senseless murders of hip hop artists. It’s gotta stop
STFU with your fake dumb ass. Dude is a felon out of prison on murder charges with a plea deal. Calling this clown a “hip hop artist” now that he’s dead. He was a gang banger and criminal who made terrible fucking music
Agree 100% less of these trash bag artist and trash bag human beings on this earth the better need less idiots like these pushing this sorta shit
How is this setting you back? You know dude? This your family member or some shit?
Whats the point of going to concerts if its gonna end up getting shut down for people doing dumb shit ? I never went to one anyways cuz I always thought it was male groupie shit. RIP.
You never went to a concert?
Lmao. Lame!
Rap concerts have always been a dangerous proposition. It’s even worse now because you have actual street dudes who are active getting booked on mainstream shows because they do internet numbers.
They should raise the coroners salary. Having to deal with all these rappers wearing dookie stained g strings.
protect ya neck.
Well. Now he will have a number 1 album. BLM?
And your mom will have the hottest corner on the block. #sellthatp***y.
Why is this no-life troll spouting BLM all the time? So desperate for attention that you have to keep spouting that.
As long as USA black leaders and entertainers accept no-talent criminals and felons as peers based on internet stats then black people will have to accept being painted as a largely criminal population with no values or self-respect. This is what happens when people say “I can’t be mad at any black man getting money.” I’ve never supported any musician who publicly claimed to be a criminal or endorses criminal activity. Just seems like every high profile black person is co-signing this gangster lifestyle in some way and they need to answer for it just like anyone else who may be responsible outside of the community
I understand your frustration. But why must everything bad that happens to a Black person be some sort of referendum on Black people as a whole? I really hate that “Black leaders” always have to be consulted when some Black guy gets stabbed or shot.
To this level, no other race of people have to shoulder blame for someone of their skin color doing wrong than we Blacks have to. I honestly hate it! Every race has good and bad. Every racial background has things that can be attributed to them. But why this something Black leaders have to “answer for” when there are far more rappers out there not being stabbed and shot than one who are?
Preach!!! At the same time we need to be more than athletes and entertainers, that’s the only light we’re seen in…
I’d like to think rap is Big Daddy Kane and KRS One but it’s not, it’s whatever is on TMZ and is number one on youtube. No point in living in a dream world that is why things have gotten this bad.
they can preach all they want drakeo the ruler is dead. damn straight being a rapper is dangerous. the moment you leave your house some brother is on your back it can be that bad.
We are more then rappers and entertainers. We always have been.
Yep. Suburbs all over the country full of middle class black people now, and this dumbass saying we should want to be more than rappers and entertainers like that represents us anymore than the white biker gangs represent white people.
That’s the only light your media wants to put you in. There are plenty of professional black people out here. I’m one of them. I know plenty others.
this happened backstage at a rap festival with all black headliners not in some parking lot at a strip mall. what if you had to fly into LA to play that show then you’re accessory to murder? what kind of beef are you getting into producing these guys records? we have to take responsibility for the places we create. if these gangstas were more socially isolated it would be less of a trend. guys are getting extra gangsta they feel like it gets views. some one posts with the n word on twitter gets ten times more likes and reposts
Fool shut your dumb ass up. We don’t have to take accountability for shit. It’s on him. He was the one with street beef, and somebody cooked it for him. Fuck that got to do with anybody else? Drake responsible for him since they made a song together? About the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen.
you’re a moron who thinks life should be like a jail yard – look at the words you are using sound like some felon describing what happened in the mess hall or in the exercise yard. This was backstage at some big time rap festival this happened. And here you are telling me to shut up and calling me the fool. Sad times
You are obviously too stupid to realise music festivals are not street corners. Drakeo and the thugs that attacked him weren’t the only people there and the situation could have easily turned deadly if either side had discharged firearms. Innocent people could’ve been killed and that’s normal to you.
Here we go again… The number keeps rising.
fuck this shit. FUCK this shit. going to apply ice gel then lay down.
I thought there were like 5 music festivals. Now they happen every other night in multiple cities. I just heard of Rolling Loud this year, yet it takes place every night all year. Is everything ok
Festivals were started 60 years ago by Hippies you dumbass. Ever heard of Wood Stock? How about Glastonbury? No cause your ignorant and stupid.
I’ve been going to them since the 90s including Bonnaroo 1st Annual and Coachella’s 2nd.
They were a good environment and fantasy land before Rap culture and mainstream music started a thousand new ones a year. I still go but avoid ones that have Hip Hop acts cause the fans and crowds are shit. Always robbing people, fighting and selling bunk drugs
The festival culture was an oasis til about 2015. Been down hill since.
No different than Hip Hop shows either.
The culture is full of violence and shitty people so of course it’s what it brings when you go to see it live.
This is literally no surprise and only going to further cement the case against Travis Scott.
Only reason Rap took over is the major labels. If it becomes a bigger liability than is already is it won’t be long til Hip Hop gets phased back out for Pop Musicians and Rock Bands and I can’t wait
Sincerely a major label A & R
no one cares that you don’t like black people
If you truly love the culture, you’d admit that what he’s saying is true. Hip-hop needs to elevate it’s standards and stop taking pride in deadly false bravado or personas.
It’s such trash and garbage people want to launder their shtty street beef through rap and act like people want them dead because they are jealous of their rap skills. People want them dead because they killed somebody’s family member bragged about it on a rap record and some ccksucker wrote about it said it was art when it was trash. So somebody decided well a mhfker gnna be a dead artist.
This is just getting out of control now. How has hip-hop beef and fake thuggery still been costing rapper’s their lives?
28 years old? Such a loss. These up and coming rappers really need to put more thought into who they hag with, and the situations they get themselves in to.
RIP.
there’s no hip hop beef or “fake thuggery” involved so maybe go play in traffic if you don’t have anything to add
they want to act stupid and they want to act dumb so they mix up “hip hop artist” and “gang member” – if you don’t rap guess it doesn’t matter to you but if you are rap artist then this is something very serious that has to be addressed. Maybe drastic measures are necessary. Maybe some people need to understand who a rap artist is and who a gang member is before they decide to write something. Maybe that has to happen yesterday.
physical interventions may be necessary for some people to understand the full implications of their decisions in terms of press coverage – either that or every show backstage going to be like a supermax sentence. I’m sure folks can be reasoned with and it won’t have to go sideways on anyone. Seeing some disturbing patterns when it comes to press coverage in LA and rappers/gang members getting killed
pop music takes no talent to be successful and rap is the same. any retard can become a rap star in this era just like they can make more money showing Jake Paul on ppv than actual boxers. guess we just have to level up and have higher ambitions. if rap was worth something then the back stage of a rap show would be someplace you would want to be not a place you avoid at all costs like federal prison
Stop acting like rappers are innocent victims. They ATTRACT these situations with their lyrics. You think Homeboy Sandman, or Black Thought, or KRS One worry about getting shot at their shows? No. Because they don’t invite that element through their lyrics. It’s simple really. Don’t complicate it.
this is nonsense – this guy was a gang banger long before he released a rap record online. LA gangs are serious this isn’t juvie hall sht – he shot people or were around when people were shot and took responsibility for it on his record. it’s not just some random thing that happened because he decided to rhyme words in a certain pattern
people see what they want to see. nobody even knows what this clown was saying on a record. we do know he pled out of a murder case last year and this wasn’t the only case he had. yet clowns on here want to talk about “rap” and “hip hop artist” and “hip hop beef” of course it’s on purpose of course it’s their plan. Black people have to have legitimate values and standards we strctly enforce or we will fail in this.