Open share drawer Drakeoâs fifth full-length release in eight months is brooding and entertaining. The lesser cuts canât help but bleed together, but thereâs just enough new variations to keep things fresh. The past five years of Drakeo the Rulerâs life are a compressed tale of pain and triumph. On his 2017 breakout Cold Devil, he emerged as an emissary of Los Angeles rapâs new wave, blanketing the city with his menacing croak and choppy flow. He spent the 10 months before that albumâs release embroiled in a firearms case that put him behind bars and was a free man that November. Yet by March 2018, he was facing a separate life sentence for racist conspiracy charges filed against him and his Stinc Team affiliates. As the case dragged on for nearly three years, Drakeo continued to record and drop new music from jail while his status as an L.A. folk hero grew.