The Yella Beezy trial is the biggest court case in Texas rap right now, and it just got more complicated. Kewon White is going to die in prison for killing Mo3. That part is settled. A Dallas County jury needed about three hours on September 4 to find him guilty of capital murder for chasing Melvin “Mo3” Noble down I 35E on November 11, 2020 and shooting him 13 times, and Judge Chika Anyiam sent him away for life without parole.
Now the whole city is looking at Yella Beezy, who prosecutors say ordered it. Jury selection is set for September 14, and this week his lawyer asked for more time. Here is what is really going on, and what we think happens next.
The Delay Request Is Not A Stall
Toby Shook, Beezy’s attorney, filed a motion asking Judge Anyiam to push the trial. His reasons: the White trial ran two full weeks and the written transcripts are not ready, the defense only had about ten days between that verdict and jury selection, and the defense expert, Julianna Moore, has a preplanned event the week of September 21, which is exactly when the defense expects to put on its case.
People online are calling it a stall. Legally it is the opposite. Those transcripts are gold for a defense lawyer, because every witness who testified against White is about to testify against Beezy, and anything they say differently the second time becomes a cross examination weapon.
A judge who forces a capital murder defendant to trial without his expert and without the record from the companion case is handing the appeals court a reason to send the whole thing back. Anyiam already granted Beezy one continuance in January over 16 terabytes of discovery and the death of his mother, and the State did not even oppose it. Our first prediction is easy: she grants this one too, probably 30 to 60 days, and Beezy stays on house arrest with the ankle monitor and the $750,000 bond he has been on since March 2025.
The Whole Yella Beezy Trial Is One Word: Remuneration
Here is what most of the coverage misses. Beezy is not just charged with murder. He is charged with capital murder by remuneration under Texas Penal Code 19.03, meaning the State has to prove he employed White to kill Mo3 for payment or the promise of payment. Not that he wanted Mo3 dead. Not that he had a motive after the 2018 tollway shooting Dallas police tie to Mo3. Not that his lyrics on “Keep It In The Streets” and “On Ya Head” sound like a confession, even though Anyiam ruled in July 2025 that the jury gets to hear those songs. The State has to prove money.
What do they have on the money? A $40,000 cash withdrawal by Beezy on November 20, 2020, nine days after the murder, plus phone records, highway surveillance and social media. In White’s trial the State did not even claim that specific $40,000 went to White. And the man who supposedly got paid is now saying he did not. The day after his conviction, White called into MrLawtonTV’s livestream and said “I didn’t get paid to do nothing, bro,” adding that he was not saving Beezy and that “that story will come out.”
Why Kewon White’s Denial Probably Never Reaches The Jury
You would think the defense just got handed a gift. Think like a lawyer for a second and it gets messy. White’s conviction is going to be on appeal for years, which means he still has his Fifth Amendment privilege and cannot be forced to testify by either side.
If Shook calls him voluntarily, White has to sit through a cross examination by prosecutors who just convicted him, while wearing a life sentence, and every text, call and Camaro sighting from his own trial comes right back in. A livestream call is hearsay. The jury is not going to hear it unless White takes the stand, and putting a convicted killer on the stand to vouch for your client is the kind of move that loses cases.
The Real Player Nobody Is Talking About: Devin Brown
Devin Brown is the co defendant prosecutors say found out where Mo3 was staying the day before the killing so White could sit on the apartment for 18 hours and follow him onto the highway. Brown still has his own capital murder charge pending. That is leverage, and the Dallas County DA’s office knows it. The State’s problem is proving the payment. Brown is the one person who could sit in front of a jury and say where the money came from, how much and who promised it.
Our second prediction is the one we would bet on. The delay does not just help Beezy, it helps the State, and the State will use the extra weeks to try to cut a deal with Brown. If Brown flips, Beezy’s trial stops being about rap lyrics and becomes a credibility fight between a cooperating co defendant and a defense that has to explain a $40,000 withdrawal without letting Kewon White anywhere near the witness box.
The Verdict We See Coming
This is where it gets interesting. In Texas the jury can come back on a lesser offense. If jurors believe Beezy set the murder in motion but the State never nails down the payment, they can convict him of plain murder as a party instead of capital murder. Capital murder here is automatic life without parole, since the DA’s office has not gone after the death penalty. Regular murder is five to 99 years or life, with parole on the table. That gap is the entire case. The $40,000 is not just a piece of evidence, it is the difference between Yella Beezy ever coming home and never coming home.
So here is the XMG call. Trial gets pushed to October or November. The State makes a hard run at Devin Brown. If Brown testifies, expect capital murder and life. If he does not, expect a jury that believes Beezy was behind it but chokes on the money, and a compromise verdict on murder with a number somewhere north of 40 years. Either way, Kewon White’s “that story will come out” is the one line in this whole case worth watching, because if that story ever does come out, it comes out under oath, and it will not be on a livestream.
Yella Beezy, born Markies Conway, has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent until proven guilty. This is commentary, not legal advice. Stay locked to XMG Hip Hop for coverage of the Yella Beezy trial and more Texas stories like our Kap G and Chedder video premiere.