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“8.5, Best New Music…Recorded in jail over a crackly phone line, Drakeo’s mesmerizing album is a remarkable feat: a stark rebuke of the justice system and an unparalleled achievement for a rapper and his producer.” – Pitchfork

“The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail.” – Washington Post

“Character building is an important part of rap that doesn’t get talked about enough. Rappers are storytellers and their stories have characters — the strength of their writing and their songs depends on how well they craft these characters. In Drakeo The Ruler’s songs, he’s the only character that really matters: the Maison Margiela-wearing protaganist, mud-walking into Neiman Marcus and flu-flamming through the streets of Los Angeles.” – The FADER

“In the brief span since regaining his freedom, the 24-year-old christened Darrell Caldwell has already recorded and released a 16-song mixtape, Cold Devil, with more than 7.5-million SoundCloud listens, headlined a sold-out show at the Observatory in Orange County and been hailed as the most original West Coast stylist in decades — that is if one can unravel his absurdly singular slanguage, cadences and cosmology.” – L.A. Times

“An ascendent star in his native Los Angeles, whose 2017 album Cold Devil is one of the decade’s most striking rap records” – Vulture

“Drakeo’s music is an exercise in restraint and matter-of-factness. Employing an icy monotone, Drakeo embeds his lyrics with seldom-seen subtext while delivering death threats with an alarming nonchalance and an off-kilter flow.” – XXL

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Press Releases

#FREEDRAKEO: Imprisoned Icon Drakeo The Ruler Shares “GTAIV” Lyric Video
#FreeDrakeo: Drakeo The Ruler Shares Thank You For Using GTL, Recorded Over the Phone As He Awaits Trial
Drakeo The Ruler shares lyric video for “Backflip Or Sumn”
#FREEDRAKEO: Drakeo The Ruler Announces Thank You For Using GTL Mixtape

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