Who is Yella Beezy aka Markies Conway? Dallas rapper sentenced to life in prison for paying a gunman $40,000 to fatally shoot fellow rapper MO3 on a busy interstate in 2020

Rapper Yella Beezy was on Wednesday (Nov. 11) found guilty of hiring the gunman who shot fellow rapper MO3 dead in a daylight attack on a busy Dallas interstate six years ago. Yella Beezy, 35, whose real name is Markies Conway, has been unanimously convicted of capital murder by a Dallas County jury, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Associated Press.

The fatal shooting of rapper MO3

This sentencing comes weeks after a jury found the gunman Kewon White guilty of capital murder for fatally shooting MO3, whose real name was Melvin Noble.


On Nov. 11, 2020, Noble was driving on Interstate 35 in south Dallas around noon, when White pulled alongside him, according to the authorities. White got out of his car holding a gun. Noble stepped out of his own car and started running on the freeway as White shot at him, the authorities said.

White fired more than 40 rounds from an AK-47-style pistol while chasing Noble, prosecutor Tommy Adams said.

White shot Noble and a bystander who was inside a car, according to the police. The bystander survived, but Noble died at a hospital.

Conway paid White $40,000 for the shooting

Prosecutors said the killing was the result of a snowballing feud between Conway and Noble that had lasted several years. Both men lived in Dallas city of Texas. Prosecutors said that Conway paid White $40,000 for the shooting.

At the time of his death, Noble had more than 800,000 followers on Instagram and was best known for a 2019 remix of "Errybody", with Louisiana-based rapper Boosie Badazz.

What do we know about Yella Beezy?

Conway was indicted by a Dallas grand jury and arrested in March last year. He secured a $750,000 bond less than two weeks later. Conway was previously arrested in 2021 on charges of sexual assault, abandonment of an endangered child, and unlawful weapon carrying. But all those charges were dismissed, according to a report by Billboard.

Conway had himself been a victim of a drive-by shooting that occurred in October 2018 in a Dallas suburb and was shot three times, but survived, Billboard reported.

Conway is best known for his 2017 single "That’s On Me" and the 2019 song "Bacc At It Again", with Quavo and Gucci Mane. He has also released a few singles this year, including "Where I Been,” “Let Me Vent” and “Sweet Nothings” with K Camp.