UPDATED 11/14, 9:20 p.m. ET: Megan Thee Stallion has reportedly gotten a restraining order against her label 1501 Certified Entertainment granted by a judge in Texas, as well as one against distributor 300 Entertainment.
“Megan claims 1501 made ‘threatening and retaliatory’ moves to block Megan from using her own music in connection with the AMAs,” TMZ writes, referencing the American Music Awards, coming this Sunday, Nov. 20.
1501 and 300 are “now blocked from interfering with her music being used on the award show,” where Megan Thee Stallion is a nominee for Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist. Also in the category are Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Latto, and GloRilla.
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Megan Thee Stallion is squashing misinformation.
The Grammy-winning rapper took to Twitter on Thursday to address a report about her legal battle with 1501 Certified Entertainment, the Houston-based record label that signed her in 2018. Megan sued the company for $1 million earlier this year, claiming her most recent releases—Something for Thee Hotties and August’s Traumazine—fulfilled her contractual obligations and permitted her to cut ties with the imprint.
1501 and its owner, ex-professional baseball player Carl Crawford, argued that October 2021’s Something for Thee Hotties did not count toward Megan’s contract quota, as it only contained 29 minutes of original material.
On Friday, hip-hop blog Fck Yaya shared a legal document indicating a judge had ruled in favor of 1501 and Crawford, determining Something for Thee Hotties did not meet the definition of a 45-minute album.
“The recording known as Something for Thee Hotties does not meet plaintiff/counter-defendant Megan Pete’s p/k/a/ Megan Thee Stallion ‘minimum recording commitment’ or ‘product commitment’ for the second option period under the contracts between the parties,” the document read. “Plaintiff/counter-defendant Megan Pete’s p/k/a Megan Thee Stallion has not yet satisfied her ‘minimum recording commitment’ or ‘product commitment’ for the third optiopn period under the contracts between the parties.”
Megan caught wind of the report and immediately pointed out that the court has yet to make a summary judgment, and the document was released by mistake.
“No judge has ruled anything abt this 1501 case, this information is not accurate,” she tweeted. “The court date for this isn’t even until DECEMBER 12TH…we HAVE NOT went to court and got a summary judgment. Please stop spreading misinformation thanks.”
Meg went on to question why everyone seemed to be “so hype for negative news” and proceeded to post proof that the aforementioned ruling had been voided.
“Not that the truth ever matters to the people who hate on me for engagements online 🤷🏽♀️” she wrote, “but Notice of VOID thanks to the COURT for clarifying a mistake.”
The notice of void judgment read: “On November 2nd, 2022, the court entered a judgement/order on a summary judgement motion that had not been heard and was not ripe for consideration or ruling. On November 3rd, 2022, having become aware of the erroneous judgement/order, the issue was brought to the clerk of the court...the court rendered the ‘judgement/order’ void.”
Also on Thursday, Megan quote-tweeted a since-deleted post presumably referring to 1501, writing that “the men over in that camp haven’t been clearing my music to be synced anywhere (shows, movies, etc) so I ALMOST couldn’t even do my Amazon performance tonight!”
