RondoNumbaNine was one of the most talked about rappers back in the 2012-2014 Chicago
drill era of hip hop with songs such as “Hang Wit Me” and “Ride” featuring Lil Durk
receiving millions of views on YouTube.
Rondo’s biggest song “Play For Keeps” which featured his best friend L’A Capone
(RIP) has over 37,000,000 views at the time of this recording and is still one of the
best songs to ever come out of Chicago.
I also think it’s worth noting that a lot of people online think that a huge part of
6ix9ine’s style of rapping was heavily influenced by RondoNumbaNine’s loud and almost yelling
type of flow.
Overall, RondoNumbaNine was expected to be up their with the Chicago rap legends for
years to come, but after making one bad decision, his life changed forever with Rondo currently
facing one incredibly long prison sentence.
Curious on how RondoNumbaNine ended up in this situation?
Well, then we got you covered.
Here is an exclusive inside look at The Criminal History of RondoNumbaNine.
Now RondoNumbaNine’s first major run in with the law wasn’t an arrest but rather
him being the main suspect of a police investigation.
This all happened in late December of 2013, after Rondo posted a picture of himself holding
a rocket launcher on Instagram with the caption being “coolin id with my new baby!!”.
This photo of RondoNumbaNine went extremely viral online which eventually caught the attention
of the Chicago Police Department and other crime stopper organizations.
Soon after, a letter was sent out to the residents in Rondo’s area informing them of what was
going on and included things such as a picture of RondoNumbaNine, his full name, and the
address that he currently lived at.
Rondo then deleted the post off his Instagram and basically claimed that it was just a joke
and nothing serious.
Internet detectives also uncovered at this time that the rocket launcher in the picture
was a “AT4” rocket launcher and had a blue strip which meant that it was for training
and wasn’t actually able to be used.
Internet detectives also claimed that it also might just be a “airsoft” or “prop”
launcher which I’m assuming to actually be the case since no arrests were made in
this situation.
Then less than 3 months later, RondoNumbaNine found himself under the Chicago Police Departments
radar once again, but this time, he was in big big trouble.
On February 21, 2014 when Rondo was just 17 years old, he attended a party with a group
of friends at the Wentworth Gardens housing project in the southside of Chicago.
Within that group of friends was Cdai, Tay600, Lil Boo, Kaprice Johns, Jasmine Brown, and
T’Keyah Herbert.
The group then spent the whole night partying with RondoNumbaNine, Cdai, and Herbert being
the first to leave.
After those three left in Herbert’s van, Johns, who was still at the party with Tay600,
Lil Boo, and Brown, got into an argument with a group of women over the song that was currently
being played at the party.
During this argument, someone fired shots into the air, which at the time, Johns thought
were directed at her or the people in her group.
Soon after, Johns left the party with Brown, Tay600, and Lil Boo.
While driving back, Tay600 then called Cdai and told them about the altercation at the
party.
The two groups then merged together once again after they met up at a nearby Wendy’s where
another friend named “D-Rose” was waiting for them in a red car.
Rondo and Cdai then got into the red car with D-Rose and began to travel back to Wentworth
Gardens with Herbert following closely behind them in her van as well as Johns, Tay600,
Lil Boo, and Brown trailing behind in Johns car with the goal being to find whoever fired
those shots at the party.
As the trio of cars approached 38th and Princeton, they spotted a man sitting alone in his parked
car.
All three vehicles proceeded to do a U-turn and that’s when Rondo and Cdai exited the
red car and approached the man from the passenger side of his vehicle.
After a very short conversation, seven shots were fired into the car and the two ran back
to their cars and drove off.
The man who was shot was Javan Boyd, a taxi driver who was waiting to give a ride to someone
who lived in the Wentworth Gardens project.
Boyd had absolutely nothing to do with the situation and was unfortunately at the wrong
place at the wrong time.
The investigation to find out who did this to Javan Boyd went on for quite a few days,
with authorities eventually discovering many key pieces of evidence.
The first piece being the iPhone found in the middle of the street next to Javan Boyd’s
car which was later revealed to be Cdai’s which must have fallen out of his pocket as
he fled the scene.
The second key piece of evidence was Cdai’s fingerprints that were discovered on the passenger
side of Boyd’s car.
Then the final and most important piece of evidence was the fact that the entire incident
was captured on nearby surveillance cameras which you could clearly identify RondoNumbaNine
and Cdai in.
Shortly after, the Chicago Police Department arrested Rondo at his home in Englewood and
charged him for the crime and held Rondo on a $2,000,000 bail.
Then just a few days later, Cdai was arrested at Chief Keef’s Northfield mansion and was
charged for the crime as well.
The two sat in the Cook County Jail for over 2 years while awaiting their trial.
The prosecutors in this situation had a really good case against RondoNumbaNine and Cdai
due to multiple reasons such as Cdai’s iPhone being recovered from the crime scene, Cdai’s
fingerprints being found on Boyd’s car, the video surveillance footage that clearly
identified both RondoNumbaNine and Cdai, and the fact that all the females in the group
told police exactly what happened on that night.
It was even rumored that Tay600 snitched on Rondo and Cdai as well but this was never
really confirmed since the paperwork exposing this claim was apparently faked to make Tay600
look bad.
And before you guys comment about the new paperwork that was released in January of
2020 apparently proving that Tay snitched, I’m just going to say that while it does
look real, I’m not going to confirm anything since paperwork has been faked in the past.
Anyways, Cdai was eventually found guilty and sentenced to 38 years in prison.
RondoNumbaNine was then found guilty a few months later as well, and was sentenced to
39 years in prison.
Rondo is currently serving his time at the Menard Correctional Center in southwest Illinois
and is expected to be released in late February of 2056, when he would be 59 years old.
Well there you have it, the entire criminal history of RondoNumbaNine.
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