I'm Ebony K Williams, attorney and host. Welcome to Holding Core where we analyze the latest

legal headlines that everybody's already talking about. But we dig deep into how the

courts impact the culture. We break it all down, going straight from gavel to your news

feed. And every week, we keep it 100, right, Dustin? That's righty. Let's hold court.

Ages. So today, we're going to take a look back at some of our conversations around defamation.

We're talking everything from Tasha K constantly running her mouth about Cardi B. And as we know,

paying dearly for it to George Floyd's family. So in Kanye West for talking to reckless.

And y'all remember Judge Joe Brown threatening to sue thee, surely Ralph, for defamation,

even though she never even mentioned his name. Now listen, before we dig into these stories,

let's refresh our recollection on the definition of defamation. So we know the defamation is a false

statement of fact that harms another person's reputation. It's rooted in the idea that we each

have a right to our good name and reputation. So to constitute defamation, the statement must

be false. Said another way, the truth is an affirmative defense to a defamation claim. Listen,

we all know you can't just run around saying any old thing about people without the consequences

and the repercussions. So keep that in mind and take a listen. So we all know he went on drink

Kanye that is. And really amongst all of the ridiculous shit he was saying, Dustin, this is

and I knew the minute that this part came out of his mouth on the interview, you know,

it's like issue spouting in law school. Like this is literally going to be a lawsuit. No questions

asked. Yeah. Because he's challenging a fact. Yeah. A legal finding. Yeah. Actually, Kanye went on

drink champs and formed his mouth to say that brother George Floyd did not die by homicide and by the

knee on his neck from Derek Chauvin as a jury determined happened. Kanye says instead he promoted a

conspiracy theory that was used by far right media to say that George Floyd instead died from

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