Marlon Wayans has fired back at rapper Soulja Boy after his transphobic comments.
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The 52-year-old comedian — who has been outspoken in support of his transgender child — took to X (formerly Twitter) this week to fire back at some of the rapper’s latest hateful remarks.
Soulja Boy, 34 — whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way — shared screenshots of headlines about Wayans and his eldest child, Kai, in a since-deleted tweet.
“That f—t s— run in the family, huh? @MarlonWayans no wonder u like dressing up as a b— it’s in ur blood,” the rapper wrote.
Wayans replied on Wednesday, reposting the tweet. “If @souljaboy had a career he could get cancelled for this type of slander. Luckily he ain’t been relevant since 2007,” he added.
If @souljaboy had a career he could get cancelled for this type of slander. Luckily he ain’t been relevant since 2007. pic.twitter.com/IEQjGIYk1Y
— marlon wayans (@MarlonWayans) February 12, 2025
The pair went back and forth from there, with Wayans sharing pics of Soulja Boy. He accused him of drug abuse and “begging to be in my movie.”
“Hey @souljaboy My child had top surgery and still has more chest than you,” Wayans said in another tweet.
Hey @souljaboy My child had top surgery and still has more chest than you pic.twitter.com/B0FAHUam3x
— marlon wayans (@MarlonWayans) February 12, 2025
Despite deleting some of his more hateful tweets, Soulja Boy also fired back at Wayans.
“Marlon Wayans you a b— and u not funny shut up n— keep selling ur soul and sucking the higher up dicks,” he wrote, in between posts promoting his cryptocurrency brand.
“You a 52 year old black man that dressed up like a white b—. Who really the coon? Broke ass n—,” he tweeted in another post.
In a September 2024 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Wayans opened up about his journey to acceptance with Kai, 24. The comedian shares his transgender child with ex Angela Zackery.
“I learned that I’m a lot stronger than I thought I was,” Wayans said at the time. “I learned that my family — my brothers, my sisters — have prepared me to be a rock in our family.”
He also noted that he feels that Kai is “the same child they was before — they just got a beard now. OK! Same baby.”
Wayans also shares a 22-year-old son, Shawn, with Zackery, and a 2-year-old daughter, Kai, with former girlfriend Brittany Moreland.
“Those are my babies,” he said of his children. “I went through the five stages of grief to get to the beautiful, magical place called acceptance.”
He noted that Kai’s coming out was just one of many shifts in his nuclear family in recent years. The legendary comedy family also lost their matriarch, Elvira Alethia, in July 2020, and their patriarch, Howell Stouten, in April 2023.
“All this was happening to me at one time, and then it was just like this universal thing: acceptance,” Wayans told Hudson. “And once you accept, you release, give yourself to God and then everything is all right. It’s better, actually.”