Megan Thee Stallion Label Countersues Amid Contract War

UPDATE (3/21): Megan Thee Stallion’s Houston-based document label countersued the “Savage” rapper Monday, saying her One thing for Thee Hotties doesn’t qualify as an album below her contract, regardless of her lawsuit final month alleging it does.

The label, 1501 Licensed Leisure, is asking a choose to challenge an order in its favor and in addition award damages for claims that Megan “has repeatedly breached her contracts.”

In line with the countersuit, One thing for Thee Hotties, launched final October, consists of “freestyles obtainable on YouTube and archival materials from way back to 2019,” and solely quantities to 29 minutes of latest recordings that includes Megan. It claims Megan’s contract dictates she “should embrace at the very least twelve new grasp recordings of her studio performances of previously-unreleased musical compositions” to get credit score for an album below her contract.

Megan, in the meantime, claims the one requirement for “album” standing below her “unconscionable” 2018 contract it that or not it’s “not lower than 45 minutes in size.”

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Initially revealed 2/23

Megan Thee Stallion received in a heated confrontation together with her Houston document label Tuesday, dropping new allegations that the corporate — which the rapper just lately filed a lawsuit towards for the second time in her profession — is pulling an “illegal” stunt to “chain” her to a contract she considers “unconscionable.”

In a sequence of feedback on social media, the “Thot Shit” hitmaker blasted 1501 Leisure boss Carl Crawford after he took to Instagram Tuesday morning to tout the dismissal of a 2020 authorized beef with the rapper, whereas failing to say her Friday criticism filed in Texas state courtroom.

Friday’s lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, alleges 1501 is making an attempt to recategorize Megan’s 45-minute One thing For Thee Hotties launch final October as one thing lower than an “album” so it doesn’t rely towards her contract quota with the label.

“1501’s new place, taken months after the album’s launch, is clearly a ruse in an effort to attempt to take additional benefit of [Megan], at nice expense and never in good religion,” the brand new lawsuit states.

Crawford’s failure to say the brand new lawsuit when gloating about older developments within the 2020 authorized struggle was an excessive amount of for Megan to disregard.

“YOU STILL GETTING SUED BC YOU OWE ME MONEY!!! I AINT NEVER BEEN PAID FROM 1501 IN MY LIFE!” she wrote in a single prolonged response Tuesday.

“This mf received my accomplishments in that bio and aint contributed to shit SINCE 2018… NOT STUDIO TIME, NOT A MUSIC VIDEO NOT A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT, shit not even a flight !!! However you making an attempt to eat off me AND PICK WITH ME ONLINE,” she wrote in one other.

Crawford and his lawyer, Steven M. Zager, didn’t instantly return Rolling Stone‘s requests for remark.

In her new lawsuit, Megan claims that the one requirement listed for an “album” below her 2018 contract was that or not it’s “not lower than 45 minutes in size.” One thing For Thee Hotties — which is combine of latest tracks recorded in 2021, in addition to beforehand unreleased tracks and skits — has a run time of 45 minutes and a couple of seconds, so, in keeping with the lawsuit, it greater than qualifies as an album below the contract.

“In each respect, One thing For Thee Hotties constituted an ‘album’ and met her ‘minimal recording dedication’ for 1501’s second possibility interval below the contract,” the lawsuit states.

In a piece of the lawsuit titled, “1501’s Illegal Try and Chain [Megan] Right down to 1501 for Further Albums,” the submitting alleges that 1501 “despatched a letter out of the blue” on Jan. 5, 2022, asserting that the album “didn’t represent an ‘album’ below the events settlement.” It provides: “On condition that 1501 waited greater than two months after (Megan’s) launch of the album ‘One thing For Thee Hotties’ to take this place, it’s clear that its place is frivolous and has no foundation in legislation or truth.”

“1501 needs to tie (Megan) all the way down to launch extra albums below the contract to the monetary good thing about 1501,” the lawsuit states. “That is inconsistent with the contract phrases, that are clear and unambiguous. Accordingly, (Megan) seeks a declaratory judgment that, amongst different issues, declares that her album, One thing For Thee Hotties, constitutes an ‘album’ below the phrases of the contract.”

In a video posted to Instagram in early 2020, the rapper stated that her subsequent affiliation with Roc Nation helped her perceive how one-sided her authentic cope with 1501 was. The rapper claimed that 1501 Leisure awarded itself 60 % of her recording revenue, 30 % of her touring revenue, and 30 % of the cash she made off merchandise.

Megan renegotiated her cope with 1501 final 12 months after she sued in 2020 and gained a restraining order towards 1501 and Crawford that barred them from stopping the discharge of her music.