Megan Thee Stallion has accused her label 1501 Certified Entertainment of attempting to push back case deadlines in order to delay an upcoming trial in their ongoing legal dispute.
She claims that this amounts to an attempt to hold her “hostage” as she fights to end her relationship with the company.The rapper – real name Megan Pete – was responding to a new motion from the label to push back discovery deadlines, less than three months after a similar motion was granted.
In March, 1501 was given an extra 60 days to prepare its case, with a trial date set for August.Pete says in her new filing that her legal team had scheduled several witness depositions in March and April, but that these were all cancelled by the label. “It is now clear why 1501 did so”, she says, according to Law360. “To manufacture another excuse to delay trial”.Pete sued 1501 in February 2022, seeking court confirmation that her 2021 release ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ counts as one of the three albums she is contractually obliged to deliver to the label.If it does, then she fulfilled those obligations with the subsequent release last summer of ‘Traumazine’.
But 1501 insists that ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ was merely a compilation of previously available freestyles and not a proper album.Last week’s response to 1501’s motion to extend discovery deadlines further says: “Pete’s last two albums, ‘Something for Thee Hotties’ and ‘Traumazine,’ satisfied her final two album commitments to 1501.
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