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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
A Dallas judge is weighing whether Yella Beezy’s song lyrics can be admitted as evidence in his murder-for-hire trial involving rival rapper MO3.<\/p>\n
Yella Beezy (Markies Conway) faces capital murder charges for allegedly hiring a gunman to kill MO3 on a Dallas highway in 2020.<\/p>\n
The pre-trial hearing has concluded, but the judge has not yet ruled on whether the rap lyrics constitute literal proof or artistic expression.<\/p>\n
DALLAS – A pre-trial hearing has ended in a murder-for-hire case involving two Dallas rappers. A judge could decide soon whether Yella Beezy’s rap lyrics can be admitted as evidence.<\/p>\n
Yella Beezy Hearing<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Attorneys for rappers MO3 and Yella Beezy returned to a Dallas courtroom on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
The case centers on the murder of MO3, whose real name was Melvin Noble Jr. He was gunned down in the middle of a busy Dallas highway in 2020.<\/p>\n
Yella Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, is accused of hiring the hitman.<\/p>\n
The pre-trial hearing that started last week focused on whether Conway’s rap lyrics can be used as evidence.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said they are relevant because Conway put a bounty out for MO3 in a song. But the defense argued that the lyrics are artistic expression and not facts.<\/p>\n
The judge has not yet made a final decision on whether the lyrics can be used as evidence.<\/p>\n
MO3’s Murder![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kdfw_fox_local_articles_173\/6f3387617a2fbb939358111c4b9249bd.jpeg\"\/)
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The backstory<\/p>\n
Conway, 33, was arrested in March 2025 after a Dallas County grand jury indicted him on a charge of capital murder while remuneration. Capital murder with remuneration means hiring someone to commit murder.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege Conway orchestrated a “hit” on his rap rival. Noble was gunned down in broad daylight on Nov. 11, 2020, while driving on Interstate 35E in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators claim Conway hired Kewon Dontrell White to carry out the shooting because of a long-standing feud between the two artists.<\/p>\n
White was arrested in December 2020 and is currently serving an 8-year and 9-month federal prison sentence on firearm charges related to the incident.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
Conway’s trial is scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n
If convicted of capital murder, he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story comes from Tuesday’s court hearing and past news coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Dallas judge is weighing whether Yella Beezy’s song lyrics can be admitted as evidence in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[134787,6885,102,104,103,4385,134786,101565,133629,57745],"class_list":["post-381687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-artistic-expression","tag-capital-murder","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-evidence","tag-markies-conway","tag-rap-lyrics","tag-song-lyrics","tag-yella-beezy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}