Remble's handlers never gave the exact address over the phone or email, instead asking a Times reporter to park around the block and walk up to the unit.Īt 10 in the morning on a Friday, Remble already has his Logic rig open on a laptop, in front of a green-screen video backdrop. On a foggy January morning, Remble is working out of a spare bedroom in a very suburban SoCal condo, around the corner from an empty community pool complex. “But yeah, Drakeo, that was a real tragic experience.” “I wouldn't say I'm worried about myself,” Remble said, staring down at the carpet in a home recording studio earlier this month. Remble's an inheritor of Drakeo's artistic legacy, but in a troubled time for L.A. in years, he's at the forefront of SoCal rap in 2022.īut since Drakeo’s killing - which remains unsolved, with no suspects arrested - that hope comes singed by fear. With a major-label deal, tens of millions of streams, placement on Spotify’s "Artists to Watch" list and one of the most distinctive, technically impressive vocal styles to come out of L.A. 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.
"But yeah, Drakeo, that was a real tragic experience." (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) "I wouldn't say I'm worried about myself," Remble said of his personal safety.
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