During the week of her new album release, hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion and her record label 1501 have been in a heated exchange, culminating with the Billboard chart-topping rapper suing the label.
Earlier this week, Megan shared in an Instagram Live that 1501 Certified Entertainment had attempted to block release of her new music due to her requesting to renegotiate her contract. The “Hot Girl Summer” artist is slated to drop her “Suga” album Friday.
In the Instagram Live, the Houston rapper talked about the holes in her contract with the independent label, pointing out that signing a management deal with Roc Nation last September opened her eyes to that.
“ When I signed, I didn’t really know what was in my contract. I was young. I think I was like 20, and I ain’t know everything that was in my contract. So when I got with Roc Nation, I got management, real management. I got real lawyers. They was like, ‘Do you know that this is in your contract?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, damn, that’s crazy — no, I didn’t know.’ ”
On Monday, a Texas judge granted the lyricist, whose real name is Megan Pete, a temporary restraining order against 1501 and its CEO Carl Crawford, who is a former Major League Baseball player, according to Rolling Stone. On Wednesday, Crawford asked the court to dissolve the order, but that emergency motion was denied.
In the lawsuit against Crawford and his label, Pete alleged that Crawford enlisted the help of Rap-A-Lot Records founder J. Prince, who is “notorious in the music business of threats and intimidation.”
The rapper’s suit claims that Prince, known for working with artists including Drake, is known for coercing artists into keeping shoddy record deals, according to Complex. Prince denied these claims Thursday.
“For the record ,we have no problem with negotiating with Megan, but we do have a problem with dictators,” he said. “I find it very interesting that Roc Nation would allow their employee to sign an affidavit and statement full of slanderous lies on my methods of doing business when we have partnered together on several occasions. I don’t think JAY-Z is aware of this but only time will tell.”
On Thursday, the “Tina Snow” rapper appeared on the popular ESPN show “First Take,” where she promoted the album “Suga” but did not mention the lawsuit.
See the full interview below:
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