In the ongoing battle against Carl Crawford’s label 1501 Entertainment, Megan Thee Stallion has opted to sue the company for rights to release her music.
The rapper’s legal team, one she inherited when she signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation back in September, pursued a restraining order against the label alleging that the contract that Megan Thee Stallion is under presents an unfair situation for the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper.
Megan Thee Stallion, born Megan Pete, also alleges that the Houston-based company is claiming 30 percent of her merch and touring income and 60 percent of income from recording as part of the 360 deal that she signed with the label.
The star went on Instagram to explain the situation on Monday.
“I was like 20 and I didn’t know everything that was in that contract,” said Pete. “So when I got with Roc Nation, I got management, real management and real lawyers. They were like, ‘Do you know that this is in your contract?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, damn, that’s crazy — no, I didn’t know.’”
Once she found out that the contract was no longer feasible for an artist that has more exposure and radio singles, she asked 1501 Entertainment to let her renegotiate her contract.
“Soon as I said, ‘I want to renegotiate my contract,’ everything went left,” Pete continued on Instagram. “It all went bad. It all went left. So now [1501 Entertainment] tellin’ a bitch she can’t drop no music. It’s really just, like, a greedy game.”
Since the filing of the lawsuit, 1501 Entertainment has been ordered to “do nothing to prevent the release, distribution, and sale of Pete’s new records.”
The order also mandates Crawford and the label “to refrain from threatening or posting any threatening retaliatory social media posts or threats against Pete [and] to not intentionally falsify, alter, spoil, hide, transfer, or otherwise destroy any documents, evidence or recordings related to Pete in any way.”
The restraining order will remain effective until March 13 in which the courts will determine if it should be extended. Meanwhile, Pete plans on dropping music as soon as March 6, according to her attorney Richard Busch.
“We are very happy the court granted our application and thrilled that the world should be able to now hear Megan’s new music on March 6th,” said Busch. “We will now proceed with the other claims set forth in the petition.”
Roc Nation remains Pete’s management, while whether 1501 Entertainment will continue to be her label still remains unclear.
