In a new interview with Angela Yee, rapper Quando Rondo has opened up with his side of the story from the night King Von was fatally shot in Atlanta.
Entitled āNovember 6th,ā the same date Von was shot and killed, the interview is the first of multiple parts. Explaining what happened from his perspective, Quando Rondo explained what lead up to the shooting. āI walked to the car, I tell my brother, I say, āitās this amount to park right here,āā he said, talking about Timothy āLul Timā Leeks, the rapper who allegedly shot Von. āI said, āIām not going in the club.Ā Find you a lil female or whatever, you got fifteen minutes ācuz. Then Iām dipping. We ābout to go to the house.āā
Rondo has maintained that he was sleeping in the car before the shooting happened. After he slept for a bit, he said he walked from the car to see āa group of peopleā coming toward him.
āIn my mind, Iām just thinking regular, in reality like you would think. Iām about to let these people walk past me. Iām not about to try and go through these people or nothing like that,ā he continued. āIām thinking these were some regular individuals. ⦠So Iām letting this group come by. Next thing you know, a n***a hit me. Boom bow. I lie to you not. Itās like I had an out-of-body experience.ā
The interview wraps up there for now, but throughout Rondo does not name Lul Tim or King Von directly. TMZ reports that Quando Rondoās woke up to see the altercation already going down, with Von allegedly approaching him and his crew aggressively.
Quando Rondo has previously said that him and his crew acted in self-defense. Surveillance videos showed Rondo helping Lul Tim, who was charged for the murder of Von, get to the hospital.Ā He has also since expressed his support for him on social media and on his song āEnd of Story,ā a move which was met with criticism.
The interview comes shortly after the rapper seemingly dissed King Von during his virtual concert.Ā āHe got caught without that pole and now that bitch ass n***a gone,ā Rondo said in a clip that surfaced on social media. āIāll piss on his grave.ā Before he died, Von was similarlyĀ criticized for dissing the dead in his music,Ā particuarly when he disrespected late 15-year-old Shondale āTookaā Gregory in a song.
In the wake of the deadly shooting, a number of Quando Rondoās shows were shut down by local authorities due to concerns of violence. Lul Tim was released on bond last month, and when close King Von associate Lil Reese was asked how he felt about it, he didnāt mince his words. āWe gonā roll his ass up real soon,ā he said. āOn my momma. Roll his ass right up. Big ass Backwoods. Big ass Backwoods, we gonā roll his ass up.ā