Dallas rapper Yella Beezy, who has been on house arrest since March awaiting a capital murder trial, is now allowed to record music at an outside studio once a week, according to recently filed court documents.
In August, the rapper’s attorneys, Toby Shook and John Gussio, filed a motion to modify his bond. The house arrest had caused their client to miss employment opportunities, they wrote, making it difficult for him to fulfill financial obligations.
Dallas County judge Chika Anyiam granted the request in late October. Under the new conditions of his bond, Yella Beezy, whose legal name is Markies Conway, can go to a studio once a week from 5 to 10 p.m.
Conway, 34, is expected to stand before a jury starting on Feb. 2, 2026, for his alleged role in the 2020 shooting death of Melvin Noble, a fellow North Texas rapper who performed as MO3.
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Conway and Noble were rumored rivals who exchanged apparent diss tracks over the years. In November 2020, Noble, 28, was gunned down in broad daylight on Interstate 35E in Dallas.
Two men, Kewon White and Devon Brown, were indicted on murder charges related to Noble’s killing in 2021. Detectives accused White of being the gunman. It remains unclear how officials believe Brown is connected to the shooting.
In March 2025, a grand jury indicted Conway on a capital murder charge that accused him of paying White and Brown to kill Noble.
White and Brown are also facing capital murder charges and were scheduled to be tried in November. In October, their legal teams filed separate motions for continuance, which are requests to delay the cases.
The lawyers cited voluminous amounts of digital and paper discovery as a result of the yearslong investigation that they would be unable to review before the trial dates. To go forward with the legal proceedings would infringe upon their clients’ rights to a fair trial, they wrote.
Anyiam, who’s also the judge in the cases of White and Brown, granted both requests. The trials are now set to begin on Feb. 2, 2026, the same day as Conway’s. A spokesperson for the Dallas County district attorney’s office did not immediately reply to a question on whether all three men will be tried together.
If found guilty of capital murder, the men could face life sentences without parole.