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Rapper Drakeo the Ruler fatally stabbed at Los Angeles concert

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A Los Angeles music festival abruptly ended Saturday night when police were called to quell a backstage brawl in which rapper Drakeo the Ruler was fatally stabbed, a high-ranking law enforcement source told ABC News.

The mayhem erupted around 8:30 p.m. local time at the Once Upon a Time in L.A. festival, which was set to feature Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, at Exposition Park near the Banc of California Stadium, officials said.

Drakeo the Ruler was a 28-year-old West Coast hip-hop artist whose birth name was Darrell Caldwell.

Festival promoters Live Nation issued a statement to The Los Angeles

 

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