2021 has been a wild year for rap.
Major names like NBA Youngboy and Pooh Shiesty
are facing some serious time behind bars
and there have even been a few RICO cases against gang-affiliated rappers.
Dallas, Texas artist Yella Beezy
is the most recent artist to get arrested for gun and drug charges.
Let’s take a close look at what happened.
Yella Beezy is a rapper from Dallas, Texas
known for tracks like That’s On Me and Bacc at It Again.
Beezy grew up in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas
and was raised by a single mom after his father was murdered at their home on Mother’s Day
when he was only 12 years old.
Beezy played basketball and football when he was young and originally wanted to be a professional athlete.
But during his teenage years, he started hustling to pay the bills.
He ended up dropping out of school for fighting and joined a cripp gang.
He started getting locked up in the 8th grade and was sent to the county jail for the first time at 17.
Beezy started rapping at age 13
and was inspired by Louisiana artists like Kevin Gates and Lil Boosie.
He released his first mixtape Mash Mode Overload at 14.
But his breakout hit didn’t come until 2015
with the track Trap in Designer from his Broke Nights Rich Days mixtapes.
He released the track That’s On Me in 2017,
which peaked at number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.
This earned him a deal with LA Reid’s HitCo Records
and it seemed like things were really taking off for Beezy.
But every success story has a few bumps in the road.
In October 2018, the rapper was shot four times on the Sam Rayburn Tollway in Lewisville, Texas.
Now we have learned that Yella Beezy
is the person shot multiple times
on the Sam Rayburn Toll road this weekend.
Our David Gowen is live at the local radio station that gave this Dallas rapper a break.
With some reaction.
The rapper had just left the club
and was heading home around 3:30am.
He had just moved into a new home and didn’t remember his new address,
so he looked down to pull it up on his phone.
That’s when someone pulled up beside him and started letting off shots.
He was shot 23 times and was hit by four of them.
He ended up crashing his car, then jumped out and started running down the road.
He called his girl and mother, but some people noticed him and called the police.
He survived the shooting,
but two of the bullets had to stay inside him so it wouldn't cause more damage.
Yella Beezy never commented on the motive behind the shooting in public.
But, there’s been speculation that it had something to do with his beef with Dallas rapper MO3.
The war between these two rappers actually started over a beef MO3 had with another rapper, Go Yayo.
Even though they were once all cool, at some point,
Go Yayo and MO3 had a falling out.
Yayo then banned him from Fort Worth and challenged him to a fight on IG Live.
MO3 just ignored the ban.
When he got booked for a club in Fort Worth not long after,
Go Yayo and his people showed up and cornered him.
MO3 ended up shooting his way out of the club
and hit an innocent bystander who was killed.
A person was killed at a Fort Worth strip club
three other were hurt.
This happened at Corsets Cabaret on Camp Bowie West, it's not clear what lead to the shooting.
Police weren't able to tell us whether it started inside the building or in the parking lot.
Las Vegas Trail Both Go Yayo and MO3 were arrested for the murder, but the case ended up falling apart.
But now that blood had been spilled,
the beef between Go Yayo and MO3 was serious.
Other rappers in Dallas were forced to pick sides,
including Yella Beezy and another rapper named Trap Boy Freddy.
Beezy and Freddy were both cool with Go Yayo and so in MO3’s eyes he couldn’t rock with them anymore.
Trap Boy Freddy ended up dropping a collab with Beezy,
Go Yayo and a bunch of other local rappers called 6 Pick.
MO3 was not invited to be on the track,
even though he and Freddy used to be cool,
which is when they started forming their own beef.
Not long after that, Yella Beezy would end up getting shot
coming home from the club, showing that the tension in Dallas was getting serious.
About a month before Beezy was shot,
a Dallas comedian named Roy Lee
was shot in the leg and ended up getting a blood clot,
which killed him.
Yella Beezy was beefing with RoyLee at the time
and many believe the rapper may have had something to do with the hit.
Mo3 was good friends with RoyLee
and so it’s been suggested that the highway shooting was his way of getting revenge.
Mo3 ended up dropping a track called 219,
dedicated to Roy Lee, where he basically admits to being the one who almost took out Yella Beezy.
On the track, he raps “I hit up that rapper,
you made him famous
Yeah he barely made it but will not again”
and “Laws askin bout a body in Fort Worth
Had my show but do not recall it
You Heard that rapper got shot on the toll way
No I don’t, who? Whatchamacallit?”
So, at this point, MO3 was beefing with half of Dallas.
Not long after that, Trapboy Freddy’s car got shot up because of all the drama.
According to rumors,
MO3 went to try and talk it out with him because they used to be friends.
But Freddy wasn’t haven’t it and pulled a Draco on him.
After that, they started beefing on IG Live and things got heated.
MO3 said that Freddy was scared to fight,
but Freddy followed up by asking why he's talking on live if they're in the same city.
Why is you going live when we in the same city?
***** let's get this gansta **** popping ***** call me let's pop up.
A few months after that,
MO3 claims that Yella Beezy got him arrested at a show where they were both set to perform.
In an interview with No Jumper,
MO3 said that he didn’t even know he and Beezy had problems,
so he decided to do the show even though they were both on the lineup.
But before he could get on stage,
the police ended up arresting them.
At first, they told him it was for an outstanding warrant.
But, after they had him in handcuffs,
they let him know that Yella Beezy said he didn’t feel comfortable performing in the same place.
Around the same time,
Beezy did an interview with DJ Vlad,
where Vlad brings up the Mo3 beef and Beezy denies that he even knows him.
Vlad tries pretty hard to get it out of him,
but Beezy just says he knows all the hot rappers in Dallas and he’s never heard of Mo3.
After we did the interview with you
I interviewed Mo3
Who? Mo3.
I dunno who that is.
So clearly there was more going on behind the scenes than they talk about.
But they weren’t just going to admit to it on social media.
The beef would reach its peak after MO3 would be chased down and killed on I-35 in Dallas.
On November 11th, 2020,
Mo3 was traveling north on the highway leaving the house of a woman he was seeing.
While he was stopped in traffic,
a suspect got out of his car and began approaching his vehicle.
Mo3 must have seen him coming because he got out of his car and started running.
The attacker continued to pursue him and fired multiple rounds,
hitting him at least once and also hitting an innocent bystander.
The bystander made a recovery, but Mo3 would be pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police say the victim, a hip-hop musician named Mo3 was approached by the killer on I-35
Both men stopped their vehicles and the victim got out took off, started running
but was shot several times on the highway.
A bystander inside another vehicle was also hit.
Police say that person did not suffer life threatening injuries.
Police are still looking for the shooter.
A man named Kewon Dontrell White was later arrested and charged with the murder,
as well as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting the bystander.
According to police,
when they tried to pull White over later that month,
he took off on a dirt bike.
After taking him into custody, they found a 9mm pistol in his pocket.
Fans on social media were quick to point out that White had ties to both Yella Beezy and Trap Boy Freddy,
leading many to believe they were involved.
Trapboy Freddy only added to these rumors by posting a video of himself complaining about the traffic on I-35
on the same day MO3 was killed.
It may have been a coincidence, but it does seem like he’s trolling a bit.
Even after Mo3 was dead,
Freddy continued dissing him online and in his music.
Unlike Freddy, Yella Beezy has kept his mouth shut about the Mo3 situation
and has stayed out of the spotlight over the past year.
Just a few months ago,
a second man named Devon Brown was arrested and charged with Moe3’s death.
A second man has been arrested, accused of gunning down rapper Mo3 on a Dallas highway.
28-year-old Devon Brown was indicted on a murder charge this week.
another man 22-year-old Kewon White
was also indicted on the same charge earlier this year.
Brown was an affiliate of Kewon White.
Police suspected that he had something to do with the rapper’s death,
so they raided his home and uncovered a stolen AK-47 in his closet, along with synthetic cannabis (aka K2),
tablets that tested positive for methamphetamine, a scale, and about $3,000 cash.
During their investigation,
police learned that Brown was upset about a relationship between Mo3 and a juvenile witness.
According to phone records,
Brown had contacted this witness several times right before the shooting.
The call logs showed that the witness gave Brown Mo3’s location on the day of the shooting.
The exact details of the murder and Brown’s involvement are still unclear
and more information will likely come to light as the case makes its way to court.
As of yet, Yella Beezy has not been charged for Mo3’s murder.
But he was recently arrested on drug and gun charges.
Even though it seems like Beezy is really bout that life,
he’s been pretty good about keeping his activities low key.
He hasn't gotten into too much trouble with the law as an adult and he isn’t a convicted felon,
meaning that in Texas he can legally carry a gun.
But that all might change after this most recent legal situation.
The police clearly think that Beezy is involved in something
because they’ve pulled him over and searched his car twice in the past few months.
The first time he was pulled over for a random stop and police discovered weapons in the car.
They say that he ran a stop sign and when they pulled him over they smelled weed.
But when they searched the car, all they found were his guns.
He was able to prove that they were all legally registered and so he wasn’t actually arrested.
He even got all his weapons back after they were confiscated
and went on social media to brag about being able to carry guns legally.
This time, he wasn’t so lucky and was hit with a felony drug charge
on top of a misdemeanor weapons charge.
When they pulled him over earlier this month,
they uncovered 400 grams of a controlled substance,
as well as four handguns and a rifle.
He got a $40,000 bond for the possession charge,
plus an extra $3500 for the unlicensed carrying of a weapon.
So it looks like the cops got what they wanted this time and caught Beezy with some product and an unlicensed gun.
At first it wasn’t clear what drugs he was caught with.
but it could have been something as simple as some weed.
They’re a little less strict on guns in Texas than in other places.
But they don’t play around when it comes to drugs,
so it could have been anything.
It seems like it’s a case that the rapper can probably beat,
especially because he doesn’t have a crazy arrest record already.
Unlike most street rappers of this generation,
he isn’t one to post his activities on social media
and has stayed pretty lowkey ever since Mo3 was killed.
So the police don’t have as much evidence to suggest that he’s a danger to the community
and still has a foot in the streets.
After getting out, Yella Beezy went on Instagram to explain what happened.
According to him, his friend owns a brand of hand sanitizer that is packaged to look like bottles of lean.
He even showed the product on camera with the label that said hand sanitizer.
When he got pulled over, the police thought he had real lean in the bottles, which is why they arrested him.
The friend had to go down to the jail and prove that she had a legal business
and there wasn’t any actual lean in the bottles.
But they still had to send the bottles to the lab to confirm that she’s telling the truth,
which is why he was still arrested.
He also says the only reason they were able to hit him with the gun charge
is because of the alleged drugs,
since it was only a misdemeanor offense.
So that makes Yella Beezy the first rapper to go to jail for hand sanitizer.
It seems like the cops have it out for Beezy
and thought they caught him slippin.
But he was moving smarter than they thought.
He’ll probably end up having the case dismissed,
if what he’s saying is true.
But he has to watch his back in the future,