Drakeo The Ruler | Before They Were Famous | Troubled Life of Darrell Caldwell

Drakeo the Ruler is a West Coast rapper who’s been called one of
the most singular artists to come out of Los Angeles since Snoop
Dogg and Kendrick Lamar. Drakeo first earned a boatload of
attention for his music that featured a laidback easy style,
distinct delivery, offbeat cadence, and more coded vernacular than
you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, those same enigmatic
lyrics would come back to haunt him in a big way after his life
spiraled out of control into a Kafkaesque battle with the
California state legal system that stemmed from a 2016 serious
crime charge that he was eventually acquitted of. The problem is --
in California there’s a law that states if you’re a gang member,
you can be charged for the crimes other members of your gang
committed – even if the only “gang” Drakeo was ever a member of was
his music collective, Stinc Team, who, needless to say, is no gang
at all. And yet still, Drakeo was forced to spend nearly three
years in prison that threatened to cut short his once-promising
career at its most precarious stage -- directly in the middle of
his come-up.