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Megan Thee Stallion Blasts Label For Counter Suing Her
On Monday, Megan Thee Stallion tweeted out against her current legal disputes, including a countersuit from 1501 Certified Entertainment.
Megan Thee Stallion is suing her current label 1501 Certified Entertainment for the second time, but CEO Carl Crawford is fighting back. Although Meg asserts that her 2021 release Something for the Hotties fulfilled her contractual obligations with 1501 Certified Entertainment, the label filed a countersuit on Monday, according to TMZ.
Crawford says that Something for the Hotties is “made up of 21 recordings and includes spoken interlude recordings on which MTS does not appear as well as several previously-released recordings.” The suit also claims that the 29-minute album “was described in the music press as a compilation record of archival materials and some new recordings.” If the judge declares that Meg's project is uncounted towards her deal, she owes 1501 Certified Entertainment two more albums.
Signed off on by Steven Zager, Lohr Beck, and Lauren Newman of King & Spalding LLP, the label claimed that they “only learned of the release hours before it came out,” and that Meg's second “lawsuit is groundless because, as she knows, Something for The Hotties does not meet the requirements of an ‘album’ under the three contracts that she has signed with 1501.”
Meg's attorney Brad Hancock spoke with Complex about 1501 Certified Entertainment pursuing the rapper.
“This is yet another absurd attempt by 1501 to disregard Megan’s album and squeeze more money and more free work out of her for as long as possible. We will ask the court to protect Megan from this type of abuse.”
It's safe to say that Meg was displeased with news of the countersuit. On Monday, she immediately went to Twitter to speak her piece.
\u201cFirst the man over my label said I don\u2019t make him any money \u2026 now he counter suing trying to keep me on his label because he wants to make more money lol if I ain\u2019t making you no money why not just drop me?\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647898208
\u201cMy lawyers asked him for an expense report(money 1501 supposedly has spent on ME)\u2026 why this grown ass man put his jewelry and chains on there\u2026 lord free me from this joke ass label\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647898547
\u201cI choose not to say nothing back abt court and address shit online but im getting tired of being painted the BAD GUY 2/47 the last girl on 1501 mad at this man too !\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647898648
Meg went on to allege that Crawford is a "powder head" who's "hiding behind" fellow music executive J. Prince.
\u201cCarl I don\u2019t wanna be signed to yo pill popping ass! You talking abt I ain\u2019t paid for a show and you sound slow. Im the artist I don\u2019t pay you directly maybe fight with THE MAN YOU SIGNED TO AND YOU MIGHT SEE SOME MONEY YOU FUCKING POWDER HEAD! You hiding behind JPRINCE\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647910819
Some following Meg's thread also brought up her Roc Nation deal, which she responded to.
\u201cPeople love bringing up roc nation \ud83d\ude02 like hell yeah my team is great am I supposed to have a bad one?\u2026 and what abt it bitch\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647912097
\u201cAlso, how can I owe you any of MY money out side of music when your team can\u2019t even provide ACTUAL statements of what i owe\u2026 you also haven\u2019t PAID ME since 2019. Your team signed off on SOMETHING FOR THE HOTTIES to count as an ALBUM now it\u2019s not? Jokes\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647912001
Meg then closed out her tweets, saying that she wasn't “speaking to nobody else on here ..see y’all in court.”
\u201cBye im not speaking to nobody else on here ..see y\u2019all in court\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647912481
But Crawford decided not to let Meg have the last word. The 1501 Certified Entertainment CEO posted on his Instagram with a screenshot of a breaking TMZ story about the case.
In his Instagram Stories, Crawford mentioned that “The truth will be out soon enough,” and alleged a forthcoming “defamation claim” .
“This all Coming from a Bonifide Alcoholic who fucked the whole industry including her best friend nigga,” Crawford added in a third Instagram Story.
Crawford wasn't the only person that Meg went after on Twitter. A Twitter user questioned if Meg was actually shot by Lanez in July 2020, to which Meg brought up her hospital records. Fans also backed her up, tweeting pictures of a visible post-incident wound on her foot.
\u201cBitches like this have ACTUAL CUM FOR BRAINS. Dick eating ass bitches. My hospital records are public record the DA has made a statement\u2026 yall choosing to be dumb at this point. You better hope a man never assaults you and nobody especially women believe you!\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1647899016
Hours after Meg's tweet, Tory seemingly responded, although he didn't mention Meg by name.
\u201cProtect black men.\u201d— Tory Lanez (@Tory Lanez) 1647905157
In February, Meg called out DJ Akademiks for spreading a "false narratives" about the July 2020 shooting. The allegation went viral enough for Megan to see it and the court case resumed shortly thereafter with a pre-trial hearing.
In the same month, Meg also filed a second lawsuit towards 1501 Certified Entertainment with lawyers saying that “1501 wants to tie [Megan Thee Stallion] down to release more albums under the Contract to the financial benefit of 1501.”
