Cardi B’s long-running legal battle against YouTuber Tasha K now has another chapter — and this one allegedly involves Tasha’s husband, some Georgia property, and several complicated schemes.
The rap star filed a federal civil suit earlier this month against Tasha’s husband Cheickna Kebe, alleging that he was at the center of a scam to hide his wife’s assets to avoid paying Cardi the nearly $4 million the rapper won in her libel and defamation case. While she doesn’t want the case to proceed just yet (more on that below), Cardi filed her suit this month in order to meet certain court deadlines.
The Bronx rapper sued the YouTuber gossip blogger in 2019, claiming Tasha K had launched a “malicious campaign” to harm her reputation. Cardi pointed to a series of videos in which the defendant made “false and defamatory” statements involving drug use, sexual acts, and STDs. In January of 2022, a jury sided with Cardi and found Tasha K liable for defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, ultimately awarding Bardi just shy of $4 million.
Cardi’s new suit claims that as soon as the ink was dry on the paperwork, Tasha and Kebe “fraudulently received, concealed, or diverted” their assets in order to keep them out of the Am I the Drama? spitter’s reach.
That allegedly happened in two ways. First: in May 2022 — after Tasha lost the case, but before the final $4 million judgment was finalized — her husband formed a business called Yelen Entertainment, LLC. At that point, Tasha’s assets from her business Kebe Studios (which was responsible for paying Cardi $2.9 million of the $4 million) were allegedly transferred to the new business. Per the complaint, that left Tasha’s business “an empty shell with no assets from which Ms. Almánzar could collect the Kebe Studios Judgment.” Allegedly, Yelen Entertainment now runs Tasha’s “Unwine with Tasha K” social media accounts and the rest of her offerings, and also receives the money from everything.
The second part of the scheme allegedly involved Kebe taking a series of steps to make sure his wife’s personal money stayed out of Cardi’s reach. Per the complaint, he “rerouted [Tasha’s] salary and earnings through Yelen’s accounts,” removed her name from bank accounts, made sure she was no longer paid directly, and had her property in Georgia transferred to his name. Paperwork attached to the suit shows that Tasha transferred the property to Kebe back in March 2022 in exchange for $1.
The suit claims that Kebe “has repeatedly admitted under oath that these acts were undertaken to help [Tasha] avoid payment” to Cardi. He is quoted as saying that Kebe Studios was shut down because “it wasn’t being operated properly and because it had a judgment against it.” When asked why he accepted the Georgia property, he’s quoted as saying: “I wanted to help her avoid garnishment.”
Cardi’s suit claims that all of these moves were done fraudulently, for the express purpose of avoiding the judgment. She is asking for the full amount of the judgment; interest; that the transfer of assets to Yelen, as well as the transfer of the Georgia property, be voided; that Tasha and Kebe’s assets be put in a trust so that Cardi’s judgment can be paid; and for an injunction to prevent any further asset transfers.
Shortly after filing her suit, Cardi submitted a separate request to delay the proceedings until Tasha’s current Florida bankruptcy case, which began in 2023, is settled. That request made clear that Cardi filed her suit when she did (on May 6, 2026) because Florida law allows four years to sue from the date of an allegedly fraudulent transfer, and the earliest transfer Cardi claimed to find records of took place in May, 2022.
