The rapper has been sitting in jail since 2019 while awaiting a verdict on accusations that he shot and killed two close friends.

Rapper YNW Melly reacts during a court appearance on Friday March 7, 2025, for his coming double murder retrial. The rapper, whose real name is Jamell Demons, is accused of murdering two of his childhood friends, Chris "YNW Juvy" Thomas and Anthony "YNW Sakchaser" Williams, in 2018. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images

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YNW Melly has been denied release on bond yet again as he awaits trial in Florida in a long-running double murder case — a decision that his lawyers say deserves “disbelief and outrage.”

In a ruling on Wednesday (May 6), Judge Martin Fein refused to revisit earlier rulings that the rapper (Jamell Demons) must stay locked up ahead of trial.…