Soulja Boy paternity questions are now at the center of a court battle after the rapper reportedly asked a judge to order DNA testing for a child he has publicly celebrated as his son.
Soulja Boy, whose legal name is DeAndre Cortez Way, filed paperwork saying he is not certain that he is the biological father of 3-year-old KeAndre Cortez Way. The filing reportedly requests genetic testing as Jackilyn Martinez moves forward with a case seeking custody and child support.
Soulja also checked boxes indicating that he would share certain pregnancy expenses and legal costs if testing determines that he is KeAndre’s father. The request does not establish whether he is or is not the child’s biological father. It simply puts the question before the court as the case continues.
The paternity case began taking shape in October 2025. Martinez filed for legal and physical custody of KeAndre while proposing that Soulja receive visitation. She also asked the court to establish formal child support.
Martinez claimed in her filing that she had been providing most of the support for their child. According to TMZ, she said Soulja sometimes sent her money after she “begged him to do so.” She reportedly argued that a formal court order was necessary because the financial assistance was not consistent.
The dispute had already become tense before the request for genetic testing entered the picture. Martinez’s legal team contacted Soulja after he spoke with her about potentially resolving the case privately and without unnecessary delays.
Court documents allege that Soulja first responded, “F**k you.” The rapper allegedly followed that message with, “Stop emailing me, you dumb b***h. There will be no litigation or settlement idk who the f**k u think u talking to.”
That alleged exchange did not end the litigation. Instead, the case moved forward, and the newly reported Soulja Boy paternity filing suggests that DNA testing could become one of the most important issues the judge must address before determining financial responsibility.
The public history surrounding KeAndre makes the latest move especially surprising. Soulja and Martinez announced in March 2022 that they were expecting a baby boy. The rapper appeared in footage from a gender reveal celebration and publicly presented the pregnancy as the arrival of his first child.
When KeAndre was born in September 2022, Soulja shared pictures of the newborn and wrote, “Lil Soulja, daddy love u.” KeAndre was also given the middle and last names Cortez Way, matching part of Soulja’s legal name.
That public celebration is why the Soulja Boy paternity request marks such a major change. For nearly four years, the rapper had publicly treated KeAndre as his child. The new filing suggests that he now wants biological paternity formally established before the court enters support related orders.
The situation also connects to Martinez’s separate legal battle with Blueface. Martinez sued Blueface for defamation in December 2023 after he publicly suggested that he could be KeAndre’s father and claimed he had been intimate with Martinez shortly before her baby shower.
Martinez denied those accusations. She said she had not interacted with Blueface since 2018 and declared, “There is zero chance that [Blueface] is my child’s biological father.”
The story became more complicated when reports about the Blueface lawsuit claimed that Martinez had already referenced DNA evidence. Martinez’s case alleged that a DNA test had confirmed Soulja was KeAndre’s biological father.
The latest court request does not explain that apparent contradiction. It remains unclear whether an earlier test was completed, whether Soulja disputes its validity, whether the reported test was accepted by a court, or whether a new legally supervised test is being requested for the custody case. Until the underlying documents or test results become public, none of those possibilities should be treated as confirmed.
Martinez eventually secured a default judgment against Blueface. A judge later approved redirecting Blueface’s ASCAP and BMI royalties toward satisfying a judgment that had grown beyond its original $123,000 amount.
This is also not the first time Soulja’s name has been connected to a disputed paternity claim. A DNA test in an unrelated 2014 case determined that he was not the father of another woman’s child. That older case has no bearing on the current dispute or what testing may reveal about KeAndre.
The current Soulja Boy paternity case remains active, and no reported DNA result has established the outcome. The next major development will likely be whether the judge orders testing, whether both parties cooperate with the process, and how any verified result affects custody, visitation and child support.
For now, the court filing has transformed what once appeared to be settled public fatherhood into an open legal question.
