Judge Issues Ruling After Megan Thee Stallion Sues Record Label

Megan Thee Stallion isn't messing around when it comes to her music.

On Monday (March 2), just one day after the 25-year-old rapper claimed her label was prohibiting her from releasing new music, Meg filed a lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment and its CEO, former baseball player, Carl Crawford.

According to TMZ, a district judge in Harris County, Texas granted the "B.I.T.C.H." rapper a temporary restraining order that prevents her label from blocking the music she plans to drop on Friday (March 6). The temporary restraining order also prevents the label from attacking or abusing Megan on social media.

As fans know, on Sunday (March 1), Megan took to Instagram Live to call out 1501 Certified Entertainment, 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 in the Instagram Live session. “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.

In her lawsuit, per TMZ, Megan claims her contract calls for 1501 to get 60% of her recording income. While the remaining 40% goes to her, she has to use that to pay engineers, mixers and featured artists who work on her songs. The contract also calls for all money from Megan's touring and live performances to be paid directly to 1501 Certified.

Megan said the label is supposed to give her a proper accounting of what she's owed. However, she claims what they have given her is incomplete, and "purposefully and deceptively vague."

The "Hot Girl Summer" rapper additionally claimed that Carl has been using his relationship with Rap-a-Lot Records founder J. Prince to intimidate people in the industry, TMZ reports. In her lawsuit, Meg claims Carl pressured a producer to hand over beats by saying Prince would be pissed. "Prince is notorious in the industry for strong-armed intimidation tactics, and the comment was taken as a physical threat of harm," Meg claimed. Adding, she believes Prince had a hand in an online smear campaign against her, including the recent resurfacing of her mugshot from her previously unknown arrest 5 years ago.

Megan is suing Carl and 1501 Certified Entertainment for at least $1 million in damages, TMZ reports.

Megan's attorney, Richard Busch, told the outlet, "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]."

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