{"id":389617,"date":"2026-07-28T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389617\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:57:11","slug":"some-of-dallas-rappers-lyrics-will-be-allowed-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/389617\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of Dallas rapper\u2019s lyrics will be allowed at trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the violent lyrics and songs that prosecutors had hoped to present<\/a> at Dallas rapper Yella Beezy\u2019s upcoming capital murder trial will not be allowed into evidence, according to a judge\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

The ruling by State District Judge\u00a0Chika Anyiam also strictly limits testimony about prior shootings and assaults that prosecutors allege led up to the November 2020 death of Melvin Noble, a fellow Dallas rapper known as MO3, who was gunned down<\/a> during an ambush on Interstate 35E.<\/p>\n

Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, is charged with hiring a hitman to kill Noble after Noble instigated a yearslong public feud with him. Conway has pleaded not guilty<\/a> to the charges.<\/p>\n

The accused shooter,\u00a0Kewon White, was arrested after investigators released video footage showing a gunman armed with a high-capacity rifle firing at Noble. Conway, 34, wasn\u2019t charged until last year, when he was indicted by a grand jury. Two of Conway\u2019s associates have been charged as co-conspirators. All three of his co-defendants also have pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

Lead defense attorney Toby Shook declined to comment on the judge\u2019s ruling Tuesday. Claire Crouch, a spokesperson for the Dallas County district attorney\u2019s office, also declined to comment. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The defense argued during a two-day motions hearing earlier this month<\/a> that Conway\u2019s lyrics were an artistic expression and could wrongly be interpreted by jurors. Prosecutors argued the evidence was needed to prove Conway\u2019s motive, intent and state of mind. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyiam\u2019s ruling allows three of the 10 songs that prosecutors had sought to introduce to be presented at trial. They include the MO3 song \u201c2 Nineteen\u201d in which he appears to suggest that the 2018 slaying of his friend, comedian Roylee Pate, was orchestrated by Conway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The judge also agreed to let Conway\u2019s songs \u201cKeeping it in the Streets,\u201d which warns against talking to police, and \u201cOn\u00a0Ya Head,\u201d which talks about placing a bounty on someone\u2019s head, to be offered into evidence.<\/p>\n

Among the violent prior incidents that\u00a0Anyiam determined are admissible are the 2018 shooting and subsequent death of Pate, and a highway shooting just hours after Pate died that left Conway seriously injured. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The feud between Noble and Conway began in 2017. Conway\u2019s lawyers have argued Noble initiated the beef with the better known and more successful Conway in an effort to raise his own profile. The beef escalated in 2018 after Pate was shot. He died a couple of weeks later from complications of his injury.<\/p>\n

Anyiam said Friday that White will be tried first.<\/a> Jury selection in his case is scheduled to begin Aug. 24. Trial dates for Conway and the other defendants have not been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of the violent lyrics and songs that prosecutors had hoped to present at Dallas rapper Yella Beezy\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-389617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389617","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=389617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}