Soulja Boy Sues Tasha K For Defamation Over ‘Malicious’ Claims of Sexual Encounter With Man
Written by djfrosty on July 18, 2024
Soulja Boy is suing social media personalities Tasha K and William The Baddest for defamation after they allegedly made false statements about the rapper having a sexual encounter with a man.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court, Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way) cited a May interview on Tasha K’s celebrity gossip podcast in which William allegedly recounted explicit details of a supposed tryst he’d had with the “Crank That” rapper.
Soulja Boy’s lawyers say these statements were false and have brought “embarrassment and disgrace that can cause fans to abandon and withdraw from supporting him.”
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“Plaintiff has suffered actual reputational and professional harm as a result of defendants maliciously targeting plaintiff and seeking to sabotage his careers, redefining his character as a man who is not straight, a fraud and dishonest person in the entertainment industry, as a public figure, which is not true,” the rapper’s lawyers write.
It’s not the first time Tasha K (Latasha Kebe) has been accused of defaming someone on “UnWine With TashaK.” Back in 2022, Cardi B won a nearly $4 million defamation verdict against her over salacious statements about drug use, STDs and prostitution. Tasha has since tried to use Chapter 11 bankruptcy to avoid paying most of that judgment, but a judge rejected that effort last year.
In the new case, Soulja Boy’s attorneys are challenging statements made during a “tell-all interview” on May 16, in which William (William Thomas) recounted an “alleged intimate moment” with the rapper.
According to quotes from the lawsuit, William said: “So I walked over there, I get on my knee, he’s sitting on the edge of his bed. I started giving him oral, it’s a big thang and it grew, you know to the left.” The video itself no longer appears to be available on Tasha’s YouTube channel and could not be reviewed by Billboard.
After the interview went public, Soulja Boy says William has been “harassing and tormenting” him on social media, including an X post featuring a “defaming and embarrassing sexual photoshopped picture” that purports to depict himself with the rapper. William’s post allegedly urged his followers to click through to a page on OnlyFans – a site frequently used to share sexually-explicit imagery.
“Although the publications may be deleted, plaintiff will forever be damaged by the publications never being removed from the web,” the rapper’s lawyers write.
Days after the interview was first published, attorneys for Soulja Boy say they sent a cease and desist letter to Tasha and William demanding that they delete the “false, malicious and are completely outrageous” statements. The letter warned that they had “already engaged in tortious acts that entitle Mr. Way to monetary damages” and that if they did not stop, “your liability for such monetary damages will increase.”
Neither William nor an attorney for Tasha K immediately returned requests for comment on Thursday.