Megan Thee Stallion’s rise in the past few years has been as rapid as it has been exciting to watch. It hasn’t, however, been without incident.
Last week, Megan demanded $1 million in damages from 1501 Certified Entertainment, the latest in a long line of legal wranglings between the rapper and her Houston-based label.
The dispute has gotten pretty ugly. Accusations of financial mismanagement have flown from both sides as well as Meg’s belief that 1501 attempted to squander the rollout of new album Traumazine by leaking it online.
In the middle of it all is a question that has dogged hip-hop, and music in general, during the streaming era: when is an album an album and not a mixtape?
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