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Megan Thee Stallion suing record label for $1,000,000 in damages amid album dispute-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
The rapper thought their contract was complete with the drop of Traumazine.
The rapper thought Traumazine was the final album under her recording contract (Picture: Getty)
Megan Thee Stallion is suing her label for $1million (£848,000) in damages.
The Savage hitmaker has amended her lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment after she released what she believed to be her final album in her contract with the label, Traumazine.
As well as seeking monetary reimbursement for allegedly not being paid royalties, she’s also hired a forensic investigator to establish why the LP was leaked early, according to amended papers filed late last week and obtained by Rolling Stone.
Carl Crawford, founder of 1501, has also alleged that the 27-year-old rap megastar has not paid her share of her touring and merchandise profits with the firm.
As she released her latest record earlier this month, Billboard Music Award 2022 show-stealer Megan declared herself ‘almost out’ of her contract with 1501 Certified Entertainment as she claimed it was the final album she will release on the label.
She told her fans – nicknamed Hotties – on Twitter before her latest record’s release: ‘We almost out.
Her label has alleged Megan owes them a cut of her profits (Picture: Noam Galai/Getty Images for ABA)
‘Y’all know I always have problems with dropping my music under this label.
‘[A]ll these games and having to go to court just to put out my art has been so stressful.’
She added: ‘Thank you hotties for rocking with me through the bull**** WE ALMOST OUT LETS STAY FOCUSED AND RUN THIS LAST ONE UP.’
Megan was countersued by 1501 over her compilation Something for Thee Hotties.
The WAP chart-topper, whose real name is Megan Pete, filed a lawsuit against the label in February, ‘seeking a declaration that her album, Something for Thee Hotties, constituted an ‘album’ as defined in the parties’ recording agreement’.
The record in question was released on October 29, 2021.
She claimed she was told on January 5, that the record was not classed as an album under her recording contract.
2021 release Something for Thee Hotties is at the heart of the dispute (Picture: Matthew Baker/Redferns)
Her lawyers said in the filing: ‘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 not in good faith.’
However, 1501 disagreed and filed a fresh lawsuit claiming the release was ‘made up of 21 recordings and includes spoken interlude recordings on which MTS does not appear as well as several previously-released recordings.’
They argued that the Sweetest Pie hitmaker was only featured on the whole release for less than 30 minutes and that her contract with them includes a clause which states that for it to constitute an album it ‘must include at least 12 new master recordings of her studio performances of previously unreleased musical compositions.’
However, Megan’s side insisted she was only told that it would have to be 45-minutes long.
The star has tweeted out her unhappiness to her followers (Picture: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images)
She took to Twitter to call out the label for allegedly telling her she doesn’t make enough money for them one minute and wanting to make more money from her the next.
She penned: ‘First the man over my label said I don’t make him any money … now he counter suing trying to keep me on his label because he wants to make more money lol if I ain’t making you no money why not just drop me? [sic]’
In 2020, Megan accused the label of blocking the release of her new music.
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The Hot Girl Summer rapper explained that she tried to negotiate aspects of her contract with 1501 after signing a deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation management, who enlightened her to some of the clauses in the deal.
Megan said at the time: ‘I’m not a greedy person. I’m not a person that likes confrontation. I’m nice and I’m real family-oriented.’
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