Before his arrest for double murder in 2019, YNW Melly was one of the most promising names in rap. Raised by a single mother in Gifford, Fla., he uploaded his first songs to SoundCloud in 2015.

YNW Melly is a rapper at the center of a double murder trial that took South Florida by storm in 2023. From evidence ...

According to court records, on September 5, the boy and another student exchanged emails that included the chorus to the 2018 YNW Melly rap song “Murder on My Mind.” The other student ...