Megan Thee Stallion label hits back in legal dispute over whether Something For Thee Hotties was actually an album
completemusicupdate.comMegan Thee Stallion’s label 1501 Certified Entertainment has formally responded to the rapper’s most recent lawsuit over whether or not her album ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ was in fact an album.
It was not, 1501 argues in its new legal filing, while also taking issue with how an earlier legal battle was concluded.The rapper, real name Megan Pete, has spent quite a lot of the last two years griping over the 2018 contract she signed with 1501 – an independent label owned by former baseball player Carl Crawford – which gave the company an interest in her recordings, publishing, merchandise and live activity.An earlier legal battle centred on various issues Pete raised about that 2018 contract, which she and her lawyers argued was entirely “one sided” in the label’s favour and didn’t follow “industry standards”.
More specifically, there was a dispute over allegations that 1501 was stopping the rapper from releasing an EP and later a BTS collaboration.
As Pete’s lawsuit went through the motions the court hearing the case issued injunctions ordering that the label allow the EP and the BTS collab to be released.Although the EP was released in 2020 and the BTS tie up last year, that initial lawsuit was only dismissed earlier this year.
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