From TMZ, where you can read the full story:

L.A. rapper Drakeo the Ruler is dead after a stabbing at the Snoop Dogg-headlined Once Upon a Time festival concert … TMZ has learned.

Drakeo was one of the dozens of billed performers at the huge all-day event Saturday in L.A.’s Exposition Park.

He was backstage around 8:30 PM when a fight broke out — and during the altercation, he got stabbed … according to law enforcement sources

We’re told LAPD, California Highway Patrol and the fire department responded, and Drakeo was rushed to a hospital — but multiple sources tell us he died from his injuries.

There are reports he was stabbed in the neck, but we haven’t confirmed that yet.

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