Tasha K may want to pop out a few more videos, because Cardi B is coming to collect.
The blogger’s settlement terms now require her to pay the rapper $60,000 after a Florida bankruptcy court approved a deal tied to alleged violations of speech restrictions connected to their ongoing legal battle. According to court docs, the stipulation was signed on June 30 by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Scott M. Grossman and reduces a fight over more than $110,000 in legal fees to a two part payment agreement.
Under the new deal, Tasha K, whose legal name is Latasha Kebe, must hand over $30,000 within 28 days of the court order, followed by another $30,000 by December 31, 2026. Her husband, Cheickna Kebe, and her companies, Quetal LLC and Stash Media Works LLC, guaranteed the payments. If she defaults, the full $110,115.76 fee award can become due against her and the guarantors.
The settlement does not erase the larger judgment Cardi B has been trying to collect for years. Instead, it resolves the latest fee dispute after Cardi’s team accused Kebe of violating restrictions that came out of her bankruptcy repayment plan. According to Meland Budwick’s reporting, Cardi’s lawyers previously argued that Kebe had engaged in “no fewer than at least 25 documented and egregious violations of the non-disparagement clause, spanning multiple platforms and escalating in brazenness, notwithstanding no less than three formal written violation notices from Ms. Almánzar’s counsel.”
Those alleged violations reportedly included commentary connected to Offset and NFL star Stefon Diggs. Cardi’s team had accused Tasha K of using context, timing, and coded references to point followers back to Cardi, even when her name was not directly used. The same report noted that Cardi’s attorneys asked the judge to step in with stricter consequences, including possible financial penalties for future violations.
In the latest filing, Cardi’s side agreed to accept the reduced amount “to avoid the expense, delay and uncertainty of further litigation.” That quote matters because the settlement appears to be less about letting the issue go and more about locking in enforceable payment terms without dragging the fee fight out further.
The contempt fight grew out of Cardi’s 2022 defamation victory against Tasha K, a case that became one of the most watched celebrity legal battles in hip hop media. A Georgia federal court awarded Cardi more than $4 million after a jury sided with her in the libel case. The award included compensatory damages, punitive damages, and legal expenses after Cardi sued over false claims made online.
Cardi, whose legal name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, originally sued Kebe in 2019. According to Justia, the case went through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit after Kebe challenged the outcome. The appeals court opinion said Kebe had not properly preserved key issues for appeal, including her challenge to the jury verdict, which kept Cardi’s courtroom win intact.
After the defamation judgment, Kebe filed for bankruptcy in 2023. According to Bloomberg Law, Cardi asked the bankruptcy court to determine that most of the judgment could not be wiped away in bankruptcy. The parties reached a Chapter 11 repayment plan that required Kebe to pay nearly .2 million over five years.
That repayment plan also became the source of the speech restrictions now at the center of the Tasha K settlement. Cardi’s lawyers claimed Kebe continued “a continued and unabated pattern of deliberate, calculated, and contumacious violations” after the plan was confirmed. The filing also alleged, “Debtor still believes that she is above the law, consequences, and is invulnerable,” adding, “She has made clear that she intends to resume harassment of Ms. Almánzar once her debt is paid off.”
Cardi’s attorneys also described their enforcement efforts as a “cat and mouse” situation, arguing that they had to keep tracking Kebe’s posts across social media to catch and document alleged violations. Cardi’s team billed more than $110,000 after more than a year of monitoring posts across seven platforms and preparing the paperwork that brought the matter back before the court.
There is also a separate case involving Kebe’s husband. Cardi filed a federal civil lawsuit in May 2026 against Cheickna Kebe and Yelen Entertainment, LLC, accusing them of helping move assets beyond her reach while she pursued collection on the judgment. The case docket is listed in the Southern District of Florida, according to PacerMonitor. Those allegations remain separate from the new $60,000 fee agreement.
The bigger takeaway is that this is no longer just about one verdict from 2022. It is about enforcement, payment plans, alleged violations, guarantors, and whether online commentary can trigger fresh legal consequences after a major defamation judgment. Cardi B’s latest win shows that even years after the original trial, the courts are still keeping a close eye on what happens next.
