![]() Remble, whose young life has been haunted by loss since childhood, now has to find his own way in the aftermath. Questions around Drakeo’s death - and any possible street rivalries that contributed to it - have cast a pall on the city’s rap scene, which is simultaneously spinning off up-and-coming stars like Baby Keem and Blxst while losing others to violence and jail. It added to a grim toll of violence that’s taken the lives of rappers including Hussle, XXXTentacion, Pop Smoke, Young Dolph and Slim 400. “Losing Drakeo just like we lost Nipsey Hussle,” he said, “it was devastating.”ĭrakeo’s killing, just a year after the 28-year-old’s release from a potential life sentence in prison, shocked the hip-hop world. It was: Drakeo had been stabbed to death. As the hours went by, we started seeing posts on Instagram, the ‘Rest in Peace’ posts.” Remble sent desperate messages to fellow members of Drakeo’s Stinc Team crew, including Drakeo’s brother Ralfy the Plug, trying to learn if this insane rumor might be true. I just started getting calls back to back to back that Drakeo was in trouble. “I started calling around, I wasn’t getting no answers. “I kind of was just shocked,” Remble continued. She texted me that it was all yellow tape and helicopters there. ![]() 18 concert - featuring Snoop Dogg, Al Green and Drakeo among many hip-hop and R&B legends and stars - to write music.Īs the night went on, “She thought Drakeo was in trouble or hurt or something like that, from what she was overhearing. Remble had a late night at Roddy Ricch’s album-release party the day before, so he’d skipped the Dec. “She was in the trailer for one of the other rappers,” the 21-year old born Eunique Cooper Remble said of the Once Upon a Time in L.A. The San Pedro rapper Remble learned that Drakeo the Ruler, his mentor and champion, was in trouble in a text from his aunt.
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