Soulja Boy sues social media personalities Tasha K and William the Wicked for defamation after allegedly making false statements that the rapper had sex with a man.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court, Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way) reported a May interview on Tasha K's celebrity gossip podcast in which William reportedly recounted explicit details of an alleged tryst he had with the “Crank That” rapper.
Soulja Boy's lawyers say those statements were false and caused “embarrassment and embarrassment that may cause fans to abandon and withdraw their support.”
“Plaintiff has suffered real damage to his reputation and professional reputation as a result of Defendants maliciously targeting Plaintiff and seeking to sabotage his career by recasting him as a non-straight man, a fraud and a dishonest person in his industry.” entertainment, as a public figure, which is not true,” the rapper's lawyers wrote.
It's not the first time that Tasha K (Latasa Kempe) has been accused of defaming someone on “UnWine With TashaK”. In 2022, Cardi B won a nearly $4 million defamation verdict against her for making malicious 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 threw out that effort last year.
In the new case, Soulja Boy's attorneys are challenging statements made during an “everything interview” on May 16, in which William (William Thomas) recounted a “supposedly intimate moment” with the rapper.
According to excerpts from the lawsuit, William said, “So I walked over there, I knelt down, he's sitting on the edge of his bed. I started giving him oral, it's a big trick and he grew, you know to the left.” The video itself no longer appears to be available on Tasha's YouTube channel and could not be verified by Advertising sign.
After the interview went public, Soulja Boy says William has been “harassing and harassing” him on social media, including an X post with a “defamatory and disturbing photoshopped sex photo” purportedly depicting himself with the rapper. William's post reportedly prompted his followers to click through to a page on OnlyFans – a site often used to share sexually explicit images.
“Although the posts may be removed, the plaintiff will be forever harmed by the posts never being removed from the web,” the rapper's lawyers wrote.
Days after the interview was first published, Soulja Boy's lawyers say they sent a cease and desist letter to Tasha and William demanding they delete the “false, malicious and completely outrageous” statements. The letter warned that they had “already engaged in torts entitling Mr. Way for monetary damages” and that if they do not stop, “your liability for such monetary damages will increase”.
Neither William nor Tasha K's attorney immediately returned requests for comment Thursday.
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