Megan Thee Stallion says she’s recording new music without help from her label. The rapper is attempting to break her deal with 1501 Certified Entertainment.
Has Megan Thee Stallion entered her indie era?
It depends who you ask.
The “Savage” rapper is back to recording new music after the end of the Tory Lanez criminal case and a busy festival season. And she said she is doing so without her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, and her distributor, 300 Entertainment, which is under Warner Music Group. Megan Thee Stallion sued 1501 in 2022 in an attempt to get out of the contract she signed in 2018 and has since called the contract “one-sided” and “unconscionable,” according to court documents obtained by The Times.
“I have no label right now, and we’re doing everything funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets,” she said, according to a recording of a recent live stream on the Instagram account of her music producer, LilJuMadeDaBeat. “The next s— y’all ‘bout to see ‘bout to be straight from Megan Thee Stallion’s brain, Megan Thee Stallion’s wallets.”
The Grammy winner added, “I’m so excited to be doing something for the first time independent since it was just me and my mama … until we sign to a new label. But I don’t want to sign to a new label right now, because I just want to do it myself until I’m completely out of.” At that point, the recording cut out.
However, the label asserts in court documents that Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, is still under contract with them and owes them another album under the terms of the agreement.
In a series of lawsuits against 1501, filed successively throughout 2022 in Harris County, Texas, the Houston rapper has tried to get out of the deal she signed in 2018 with the label’s founder, former Major League Baseball star Carl Crawford.
