Megan Thee Stallion secures restraining order against her label ahead of this weekend’s AMAs
completemusicupdate.comThe legal back and forth between Megan Thee Stallion and her label 1501 Certified Entertainment continues, with the rapper – real name Megan Pete – securing a restraining order to stop the label from interfering in her efforts to capitalise on this weekend’s American Music Awards.There has been plenty of legal wrangling between Pete and 1501 in recent years.
She originally claimed that her deal with the label did not follow music industry conventions and was unfairly skewed in 1501’s favour.
After she went legal on the matter, 1501 agreed to amend elements of that deal, resulting in Pete’s lawsuit being dismissed.But then a new dispute began over the three albums Pete is obliged to deliver to 1501 and, in particular, whether last year’s ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ counts as one of them.
She reckons that it does, but 1501 argues that that record, which was basically a compilation of freestyles and archive tracks, does not fulfil the definition of album under the terms of her record contract.Following the release of Pete’s recent album ‘Traumazine’ in August, the rapper asked the court to confirm that she had now fulfilled the terms of her record contract, even though that would require counting ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ as album number two of three.
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