It was unclear who had access to the backstage area, where the attack occurred. No arrests had been made as of Sunday morning, the LAPD said.
Drakeo the Ruler, 28, whose surrealist slang made him one of the most original stylists in L.A. hip-hop, died after being stabbed at a concert.“I can definitely see why they wouldn’t want to create a panic by saying somebody got stabbed, but maybe they should have just shut the music off and told people there was a technical issue,” said Troels Trier, 36, who flew in from Denmark with friends to attend the festival. “People were standing literally for hours waiting while a DJ played.
Al Green then performed, Trier said, and Snoop Dogg was supposed to take the stage at 8:30 p.m.. The rapper, who was a co-promoter of the festival with Live Nation, later said in a statement that he heard about the altercation while he was in his dressing room and chose to immediately leave the grounds.
“Then another person confirmed it, and then it was kind of like the monkey game, where everyone kept repeating a version of what was happening,” she said. Caldwell was acquitted of felony murder and attempted murder charges, but L.A. County prosecutors sought to retry him on conspiracy charges and weapons offenses. They alleged that his rap collective, Stinc Team, was a street gang, and attempted to use his lyrics and videos as evidence, drawing outcry from civil rights and free speech advocates.
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