Megan Thee Stallion Calls Out Record Label Over Contract Dispute

Things are heating up between Megan Thee Stallion and her record label.

The Houston rapper revealed that she is running into an issue with 1501 Entertainment over the release of her upcoming album Suga. In an Instagram Live session on Sunday, Meg shared her side of the story, claiming that the label won’t let her release new music after she requested to renegotiate her contract.

Meg, who was 20 when she entered the deal, was unaware what she signed. “When I signed, I didn’t really know what was in my contract,” she said. “So when I got with Roc Nation, I got real management, I got real lawyers, and they was like, ‘Do you know that this is in your contract?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, damn, that’s crazy—no, I didn’t know.’”

She said she wasn’t mad at 1501 and wasn’t looking to leave the label. “I’m not mad at 1501, I wasn’t upset ’cause I’m thinking in my head, ‘Oh well, everybody cool, we all family, it’s cool, it’s nice,’” she said.

But that quickly changed when she asked to renegotiate. “Soon as I said, ‘I want to renegotiate my contract,’ everything went left. It just all went bad. It all went left. So now they tellin’ a bitch that she can’t drop no music. It’s really just, like, a greedy game.”

Added Thee Stallion, “I’m not a greedy person. I’m not a person that likes confrontation. I’m not a person that’s a bitch. I work with everybody, and I’m nice, and I’m real family-oriented. But ni**as gon’ be ni**as. And they gon’ be greedy and they gon’ be shady. And I see the shit that camp be saying about me, and I be like, ‘Damn, well since you got so much to say, why you just won’t tell ’em why you mad?’ You mad because I don’t want to roll over and bow down like a little bitch and you don’t want to renegotiate my contract.”

She made it clear that 1501 did not make her a superstar. “Megan Thee Stallion was Megan Thee Stallion before I even got over there. I been rapping, been freestyling. Been doing me, been Meg,” she said.

The Houston hottie later took to Twitter to share the hashtags #FREEMEG and #FREETHESTALLION. She also explained why she wanted to renegotiate her contract. “I didn’t understand some of the the verbiage at the time and now that I do I just wanted it corrected,” she told a fan.

As Billboard points out, 1501 Entertainment CEO and founder Carl Crawford alluded to the contract dispute in a post about “loyalty.”

“At a time when loyalty is at an all time low it’s nice to be link with @jprincerespect who is steady teaching me how to move in this cutthroat industry,” Crawford wrote alongside a photo with Rap-A-Lot Records founder James Prince. “And I know that terrifies some especially the ones who double cross me.”

It’s unclear how this will affect Meg’s future music. She was planning to release her debut album Suga in early May to coincide with her late mother’s birthday. The album has already spawned the Tupac-sampled single “B.I.T.C.H.”

Written by: Rap