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Megan Thee Stallion Bashes 1501 Certified Entertainment & J. Prince
Megan Thee Stallion spoke out against former label 1501 Certified Entertainment and J. Prince in a Twitter rant on Tuesday night.
Megan Thee Stallion is fed up with her former label1501 Certified Entertainment. On Monday (August 23) reports surfaced that the Traumazine rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, is seeking $1 million in damages from the Carl Crawford-founded label, citing a recording contract that Pete and her team claim is unconscionable. Pete has since asked a Texas judge to rule Traumazine as satisfying the terms of her contract with the label.
"Over the past two (2) years, Pete and 1501 shared a long and tortured history of disputes with each other concerning Pete’s recording agreement, including the unconscionability of the agreement in its original form, as well as disputes concerning the release of Pete’s music,” the statement reads, according to PEOPLE.
While 1501 Certified claimed in a countersuit that Pete's 2021 EP Something For the Hotties did not fulfill the “Minimum Recording Commitment” due to including archival material and spoken interludes, along with being released shortly after her 2020 debut album Good News. Pete's team alleges that the Houston label is attempting to "take advantage" of the rapper.
“1501's new position, taken months after the album’s release, is clearly a ruse in an effort to try to take further advantage of Pete, at great expense and in bad faith,” the complaint continues.
Legendary Houston music executive J. Prince caught wind of Pete's lawsuit and went to Instagram to give his support to Crawford in a lengthy post, even alleging that the former MLB player "discovered, developed and fully financed" Pete early in her career.
“For years we have stood by quietly as MTS and her mgmt at Roc Nation has lied about Carl Crawford and his 1501 label,” he wrote. “The truth is that Carl discovered, developed and fully financed MTS early in her career which led to a life changing distribution agreement for her with 300 Entertainment.
“From 1501’s earliest agreement with Megan, long before MTS was a household name, 1501 generously agreed to give Megan 40% of its PROFITS which is substantially more than the customary record royalty that a new artist receives from a record label.”
J. Prince continued, “Any attempt by MTS or RN to portray a contract that provides a new unknown artist with 40% of the label’s PROFITS as unconscionable or unfair is blatantly false and contrary to the customs or norms in the music industry.
“In fact, we have seen several RN contracts and RN pays its new artists a customary royalty that is significantly less than the 40% of PROFITS that 1501 agreed to pay Megan.”
Pete fought back against J. Prince's defense of Carl, opening up about her late mother's uncertainty about 1501 Certified Entertainment before her passing in March 2019.
\u201cIm so over these grown ass men trying to take credit away from the work me and my mama put into the beginning of my career\u2026me and my mom \u201cdeveloped\u201d my career I was already known for free styling and I was already working on Tina snow before I got to 1501.\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661309138
\u201cWhen my mama died I knew a bunch of hood niggas who just started a label for the FIRST time were not gonna be able to manage me PROPERLY so I got with roc\u2026by this time I was a bigger artist and I asked to renegotiate\u2026 NOT LEAVE what was wrong with that ? That man is GREEDY\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661309307
\u201cLike for this man to keep getting on the internet with his back up to talk like he made me is ridiculous\u2026 was you writing my songs ? Were you with me in my dorm room recording me rapping ? What abt all that rapping out side my mamma car ? Think cyphers?? I ain\u2019t even know YOU\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661309440
\u201cIf you wanna be REALLL I DEVELOPED 1501\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661309495
\u201cThey keep signing people and everyone got the same story \u2026 go find allll the girls and the guys that started over there with me and some of the girls after me\u2026 ask anybody in Houston how that man is fake ass Nigga talked so much shit abt jprince now that\u2019s your bestie ok \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude44\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661309696
\u201cI only respond when people say my name so all them weirdo comments abt \u201cI\u2019m looking for sympathy and attention\u201d is DEAD\u2026talk to me & ima talk back when I feel like it\ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2640\ufe0f I don\u2019t need validation from the internet but I\u2019m not weak either \u2026 beat me in court not the comment section\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661310314
The Traumazine rapper also told fans that she'd soon tour, previously not wanting to while signed to 1501 Certified Entertainment.
\u201cI ain\u2019t wanna do my own tour while I was signed to that label so just stay tuned fren \ud83d\udc99\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661311722
\u201cOne more thing bc he still going this 42 year old man said he never heard a story abt me playing as a kid where I\u2019m from \u2026 sir I would hope 42 year old men couldn\u2019t tell you where I was playing at as a kid\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661319744
\u201cNow I\u2019m just a made up character from Houston? Nobody in Houston knows me ? I just started \u201cclaiming Houston\u201d when I got famous.. like it ain\u2019t school pictures and some more shit out in the world\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661320048
Pete concluded with a final clap back, alluding to finalizing her lawsuit against 1501 Entertainment.
\u201cWhen the hate don\u2019t work they just start saying anythingggg \ud83d\ude02 like who is ask anybody? All them 18 year old girls that you hanging with at 42? Cause they damn sure ain\u2019t gone know me either\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661320524
\u201cim done responding \ud83e\udd71 stop bringing up where I\u2019m from and bring me my MONEY gn internet\u201d— TINA SNOW (@TINA SNOW) 1661321049
