Drakeo The Ruler was murdered last month — ambushed and stabbed in the neck while backstage at a Los Angeles music festival. He was 28. I haven’t written anything about Drakeo after his death because it’s too depressing. Every time a young rap titan is cut down in his prime — something that’s happened all too often lately, and all too often throughout history — the details are always uniquely crushing and horrifying. It’s the same reason that I haven’t written about Young Dolph since he was killed, shot outside the bakery where he was buying cookies for his mother. If you focus too much on stories like these, you might feel yourself starting to spin out.