Megan Thee Stallion's drama with her record label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, is continuing to heat up.
Just one day after the 25-year-old rapper was granted a temporary restraining order, allowing her to release new music on Friday (March 6), her label's CEO Carl Crawford filed an emergency motion to dissolve that restraining order, according to Complex. The motion has not yet been ruled on by a judge.
In spite of Carl's recent filing, Meg surprised fans on Wednesday (March 4), announcing that she plans to drop an album on Friday. "SUGA 3/6," she captioned an Instagram photo of the album's cover art and tracklist.
A source told Complex that March 6 has been Megan’s planned album release date. However, her label has been trying to stop it since January.
According to the outlet, on January 23, 1501’s attorney sent a letter to Megan's distributor 300 Entertainment saying that the making of the album was “in direct contravention of 1501’s contractual rights” as well as demanding that 300 “cease all activity” related to Megan’s music until they get permission from 1501. The label also reportedly sent similar letters to CAA and to Puma and Live Nation as well, demanding a “full and complete accounting” of all of Megan’s deals and insisting it has the right to “grant approval and permission” to anything Megan was involved in.
The plan now, according to the insider, is to release SUGA on Friday as planned and “deal with this situation as it unfolds.”
On Monday (March 2), Meg filed a lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment and Carl, asking for the termination of her contract.
The day prior, Megan took to Instagram Live to call out the label, claiming they're preventing her from releasing new music because she asked to renegotiate her contract. “Soon as I said, ‘I want to renegotiate my contract,’ everything went left,” Megan said. “It just all went bad. It all went left. So now they’re tellin’ a b*tch that she can’t drop no music.”
The Houston native went on to explain that she signed her record contract when she was 20-years-old and was unaware of exactly what was in it. However, Meg said when she signed on to Jay-Z's Roc Nation for management last year, they brought some things to her attention, in regards to the contract, that made her want to renegotiate her original deal, but 1501 wouldn't allow it.
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