Yella Beezy Gets Life In Prison For Hiring Hitman To Kill Rival Rapper MO3

The Dallas rapper Yella Beezy has been found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. As the Associated Press reports, a jury in Dallas County unanimously found the 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Markles Conway, guilty of hiring a hitman to kill rival Dallas rapper MO3 in 2020. MO3, whose real name was Melvin Noble, was shot dead in 2020 at the age of 28. The jury found against Yella Beezy on the sixth anniversary of MO3's death.In the trial, prosecutors claimed that the murder was the result of a years-long rap feud between Yella Beezy and MO3 and that Beezy paid a man named Kewon White $40,000 to kill him. White was found guilty of capital murder in September, and he got the same sentence of life without the possibility of parole. Yella Beezy was arrested for the murder in 2025.According to prosecutors, MO3 was driving down a Dallas highway in the middle of the day in 2020 when White pulled up next to him, got out of the car, and pulled out a gun. MO3 got out of his car and tried to run away, and White fired more than 40 shots at him, hitting and injuring a nearby bystander, who survived. MO3 later died from his wounds in a hospital. Yella Beezy survived a similar highway shooting in 2018, and prosecutors showed jurors a video in which he claimed he would "get his lick back." Both Yella Beezy and MO3 had successful rap careers prior to the murder. Yella Beezy's 2017 single "That's On Me" went platinum. He released a remix to the track featuring 2 Chainz, T.I., Rich The Kid, Jeezy, and Trapboy Freddy, and it also went platinum and reached #56 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2019, he reached #78 with "Bacc At It Again," a Quavo/Gucci Mane collab that went gold. His most recent album Bad Azz Yella Boy came out in 2022, and he released the single "Where I Been" in September. MO3 had two double platinum singles, the 2020 Kevin Gates collab "Broken Love" and the posthumous 2021 "Outside" remix, featuring OG Bobby Billions. His posthumous 2021 album Shottaz 4Eva went gold.