Megan Thee Stallion sues her record label and its head Carl Crawford over contract and new music

Megan Thee Stallion filed a lawsuit Monday against her Houston-based record label and its head Carl Crawford over her contract and the release of new music.

The 25-year-old Texas rapper, real name Megan Pete, sued 1501 Certified Entertainment and Crawford, 38, over the contract she signed when she was age 20.

The Hot Girl Summer singer was granted a temporary restraining order by a district judge in Harris County, Texas preventing her label from blocking new music she plans to release Friday, according to an article by TMZ.

The lawsuit claimed that her record contract calls for 1501 Certified to receive 60 percent of her recording income.

Megan gets the remaining 40 percent, but must use that to pay for engineers, mixers and featured artists on her songs, according to the lawsuit. 

The lawsuit also claimed that her contract directs all proceeds from Megan’s touring and live performances to be paid directly to 1501 Certified.

The performer claimed she was supposed to get a proper accounting of her earnings, but alleged in court documents that they have been incomplete and ‘purposefully and deceptively vague’.

Megan also claimed that former Major League Baseball player Crawford has been using his relationship with Rap-A-Lot Records founder James Prince, 54, for intimidation purposes.

She alleged in the lawsuit that Crawford pressured a producer to provide music by saying Prince would be angry otherwise.

‘Prince is notorious in the industry for strong-armed intimidation tactics, and the comment was taken as a physical threat of harm,’ Megan claimed in court documents.

The lawsuit was seeking at least $1 million in damages against Crawford and his label.

The temporary restraining order also banned 1501 Certified from attacking or abusing Megan on social media.

‘We are very happy the Court granted our TRO and thrilled that the world should be able to now hear Megan’s new music on March 6. We will now proceed with the other claims set forth in the [lawsuit],’ her lawyer Richard Busch told TMZ.

Megan during an Instagram Live video on Sunday said 1501 Certified was not allowing her to drop any new music.

According to Megan, the problem arose with her contract, which she signed five years ago.

‘When I signed, I didn’t really know what was in my contract. I was young, I think I was, like, 20,’ she said.

‘So when I got with Roc Nation [an entertainment and management company founded by Jay-Z], I got management, real management.

‘I got real lawyers, and they were like, “Do you know that this is in your contract?” And I was like, “Oh d***, that’s crazy, no I didn’t know.”‘

Megan said  she wanted to adjust the contract to remove the problematic clauses, but that seems to have soured her relationship with the label.

‘As soon as I said I wanna renegotiate my contract, everything went left. It just went all bad,’ she said. ‘So now they’re telling a b***** she can’t drop no music. It’s really just, like, a greedy game.’

The songwriter also clarified in her video that she wasn’t trying to leave the label, but just wanted a more equitable contract.

‘I’m not a greedy person. I’m not a person that likes confrontation,’ she said, adding ‘I’m nice and I’m real family-oriented.’

Crawford seemed to reference the situation and shade Megan in a photo with music executive Prince posted to his Instagram on Sunday.

‘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. And I know that terrifies some especially the ones who double cross me. #Paybacksab**** #1501 #mobties.’

Megan originally teased the situation Sunday on Twitter after a fan tweeted that they wanted new music.

She also shared the hashtags ‘FREEMEG’ and ‘FREETHEESTALLION’ later in the day.