Quando Rondo went from running in the streets of Savannah
and spending time in juvy, to signing a major deal with NBA Youngboy
and being involved with the death of one of Chicago’s most famous rappers.
He’s had a wild come up full of tragic violence,
and today we’re breaking down the story of Quando Rondo.
Quando was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia,
but when he was just two-years-old
Child Protective Services took him away from his parents.
He told DJ Vlad that his parents were fighting or something,
and then a hot iron fell on his leg and burned him pretty badly.
At first his parents didn’t think it was that serious,
but a couple of days later they took him to the hospital
and that’s when CPS got involved.
They thought Quando’s parents actually burned him,
so they lost custody.
Luckily his great aunt adopted him and his brother,
but the issues ain’t stop there.
When Quando was 3,
his dad got hit with a 12 year sentence and his mom was strung out on drugs
and never came to see him.
The situation was already hard for him,
but then his great aunt ended up calling the cops on Quando
when he was 11 years old.
Quando was at the mall with his great aunt and her grandkids.
All the kids were messing around,
and Quando ended up hitting one of them.
He told DJ Vlad it wasn’t even a serious situation like that,
but his great aunt called the cops and he got booked in juvy on a simple battery charge.
He was only supposed to be locked up for a few days,
but Quando was already smoking weed at the time and he ended up failing his drug test
and got sent right back.
They tried to let him out again, but he failed another test
and got put on house arrest with an ankle monitor.
Quando was just a kid at the time and ain’t really understand what was going on.
He let the ankle monitor die
and thought that meant he could go outside and do whatever,
but obviously that’s not how it worked out.
He ended up getting sent to a military-style camp,
but Quando kept getting into fights and eventually got kicked out.
He served some more time in juvy,
then Quando got hit with another house arrest sentence for 60 days.
Sitting at home wasn’t gonna fly,
so he cut off the monitor and went on the run.
He avoided the cops for a while by couch surfing and staying with friends,
but then he decided to go back home to his great aunt’s place
and she called the cops again!
This time he got hit with three months in juvy,
but they didn’t put another ankle monitor on him after the sentence.
Not before long, he got sent right back for stealing a cap gun
and stayed for another four months.
Quando says he learned about different kinds of crime from the dudes he was in juvy with,
and the next time he got out was when he started hitting licks.
At first he was just taking tvs and small stuff out of houses in his neighborhood,
but then he decided to take it to the next level and hit a house in the rich part of town.
But during his first robbery in the suburbs,
Quando tripped a silent alarm and got booked in juvy for another 15 months!
At this point he had both feet in the trenches.
He already dropped out of school, and now
he was toting guns and claiming rolling 60s neighborhood cripp.
Quando spent most of the time between the ages of 11 and 16 in juvy,
but then he started getting booked in the county jail for things like gun charges.
With the way things were going,
it was only a matter of time
before he caught a charge that would get him a longer sentence.
Luckily Quando realized he needed to switch up how he moved
if he ain’t wanna end up behind bars again,
so he decided to focus on making it out of the streets with music.
Quando had been rapping and singing since he was a kid,
and he got even better by making music while he was locked up.
He told XXL
“I used to take my mattress out the bed and beat on the metal,
and it seemed like the metal give you a little flow.
A n**** might not even be singing;
I might just be rapping.
I might come out my cell and hear people rapping and singing my s***.”
He started posting clips on Instagram of him freestyling
and hitting cars to make the beat,
and it wasn’t long before he started buzzing in the city.
Quando told DJ Vlad that a bunch of dudes in Savannah tried to sign him,
but he wasn’t feeling any of the offers.
The Game wanted to sign him too,
and then Birdman hit him up and offered to fly him out to Miami.
Quando probably would have flew out there,
but his parole officer didn't think the offer was real so he didn’t go.
In January 2018
Quando dropped the track I Remember with Lil Baby,
which popped off and racked up almost 100 million views on YouTube.
He followed it up with a couple more singles,
then dropped his debut project Life B4 Fame in April.
The tape hit over a million streams in two days,
and a couple of months later Quando became the first dude to sign
with YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s label.
Signing with YoungBoy definitely boosted his career.
Quando kept grinding over the next couple years with new projects and tours.
In January 2020
he dropped his debut album and it seemed like Quando was really about to blow up,
but later that year he made headlines for all the wrong reasons
when he was involved in the death of King Von.
On November 6th, 2020,
Quando and his crew were outside a club in Atlanta when Von and his homies walked up
and started throwing punches.
Quando told Angela Yee that he didn’t even know what was going on at first.
He said “In my mind, I’m just thinking regular,
in reality like you would think.
I’m about to let these people walk past me.
I’m not about to try and go through these people or nothing like that.
I’m thinking these were some regular individuals…
Next thing you know, a n**** hit me.
Boom bow.
I lie to you not.
It’s like I had an out of body experience.”
Surveillance cameras caught the brawl on tape,
and at some point someone started shooting.
Von ended up getting shot and killed,
and Quando’s homie Lul Timm was booked for the murder.
According to Quando and his crew, it was all self defense.
Nobody knows why Von was even going after Quando,
but unfortunately it cost him his life.
Rumors say it’s because of Lil Durk’s beef with YoungBoy,
but Durk and Quando were cool and had worked together before.
Quando said “From my understandment,
I had a relationship with big bro.
Not wanna say his name.
You know who I’m talking about.
The dude that was on my album.
It was all love with us, from my understanding.”
King Von was one of the hottest rappers in the game when he died,
and Quando being involved definitely put a target on his back.
Rumors started flying that Quando had a million dollar bounty on his head,
and two weeks after the shooting he talked about it all on the track End of Story.
On the song he said
“F*** what they say, that’s understood, we had to make it home
I put that on the neighborhood before they bust my dome
Lul Timmy riding right or wrong.”
And “Million on my head, that’s what they say
That’s all you got? B****, make it eight.”
Before Von’s death,
Quando was just a rapper who made it out of the streets
and was popping off in the industry.
But after that night in Atlanta,
everybody just associates Quando with the shooting instead of his own career.
In 2021 Quando went on All Around TV and said
“Nobody want to book me because they’re terrified.
That’s the truth.
So many people calling like,
Big bru I wish the fans let that s*** go like.
Like big bru, as long as y’all talk about it,
Then why is y'all hyping this s*** up.”
Quando knew a lot of people wanted him dead because of the Von situation,
but he didn’t let the death threats get to him.
He told All Around TV
“However some shit come to me,
that’s how I’m about to go about that s***.
Death threat all you want to, bro,
f*** that s***, that’s just some words my n****.
Go do an action.”
Death threat all you want to, big bro,
f*** that s***, that’s just some words my n****.
Go do an action.
A couple of months before the interview dropped,
Quando and his homies got caught in a “hail of gunfire”
while they were chilling in a parking lot.
Quando made it out ok,
but one of his boys got hit in the hand.
Back in August, Quando tweeted
“Once it happen I ain’t gone be mad cuz I already been prepared for it really really!”
Then a couple of days later,
Quando saw his friend die in front of him
after they were shot at by three gunmen in LA.
Quando and his crew were at a gas station
when three dudes pulled up and started letting off shots.
Quando avoided getting hit,
but his homie Lul Pap was tragically shot and killed.
The police say it was a targeted hit,
but nobody’s been arrested for the shooting yet.
Quando lost another homie to gun violence just a couple of days earlier,
and all the killing made him decide to quit gang banging for good.
He hopped on his IG Story and said
he layed down his flag and was no longer a Neighborhood cripp.
He wrote
“It’s time for me to spend time to myself and free myself from a lot of people.
My Main Manz Gone & a lot more s***
I’m cool on alot of s***
if I feel like you not with me it’s no reason for me to be holding on to you
no need to shake your hand or fake some s*** with you!”
Quando caught a lot of heat for what he said.
Nipsey Hussle’s homie J. Stone said
“You can’t drop yo flag and say you not NH no mo.
N**** go to the hood and get yo put off.
Don’t cry now.
We lose homies all the time.
Not everybody gon ride.
You was a goofy/internet banger anyway.”
Foolio jumped in too and wrote
“Dawg homeboy died in cali he trynna squash beef and throw his flag in
it’s to late for that nephew.”
Wack100 thinks the feds are going to try and flip Quando.
He said “That killing f***** with his mind.
When the police came that n**** went to civilian…
They gonna intercept some wiretaps on the n****.
N**** threatening they gonna do something to him.
They gonna let him hear it, and it’s gonna get jiggy.”
It’s damn near impossible to just walk away from a gang without any consequences,
but Quando is standing on his decision.
It’s not clear how all of this will pan out,
but hopefully he can move on and focus on music again
instead of all the violence and beef.
Quando is still rocking with YoungBoy
and definitely has the skill and connections to make it far in the industry,
but quitting his gang might have put an even bigger target on his back.