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YG Confronts Drakeo The Ruler Murder Rumors on New Track “We Know the Truth”
YG addresses persistent rumors tying him to Drakeo The Ruler's 2021 death on "We Know the Truth" from The Gentlemen's Club, released June 19.
Rumors have sat with a stubborn weight in Los Angeles hip-hop, and on Friday (June 19) YG moved to weigh in. The Compton, Calif., rapper released his new album The Gentlemen's Club and debuted a video for “We Know the Truth,” a song that directly addresses the long-running chatter about his alleged involvement in Drakeo The Ruler‘s killing.
“They say I murdered this, they say I murdered that/Well, if that was true, you’d be a f**king rat,” YG raps. “And I’d be in the cell sleeping on a rack/But too bad that ain’t a f**king fact.”
“I came to get the dough, was finna hit the stage/Then I heard how y’all heard, somebody got hit with a blade,” YG continues. “I heard ni**as saying, ‘YG paid’/Stop lying, ni**a, come run YG fade.”
The lines are terse and unglamorous — a refusal more than an explanation. Drakeo was stabbed during a backstage brawl at the Once Upon a Time in L.A. Festival on December 18, 2021, and died the following day at 28. Almost immediately after his death, speculation circulated that YG, who also performed at the festival, had some role in the attack. He was never charged, and no arrests have been made in connection with the killing.
Speaking to the legal fallout, Drakeo’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit the following year against multiple people and entities connected to the festival, including Snoop Dogg and Live Nation.
Elsewhere on The Gentlemen’s Club, YG keeps his statements minimal and direct. “We Know the Truth” functions less as a eulogy and more as an attempt to excise rumor from record — to pin down a narrative he insists is false rather than to seek reconciliation or reflection. The song and its video arrive as the latest entry in a controversy that has shadowed L.A.’s scene since 2021.
