Megan Thee Stallion says that 1501 isn’t letting her drop new music due to her requesting to renegotiate her contract. But the clause just before it says that a lawsuit may only be brought in a court located in Texas. Megan’s court papers complain that Crawford’s crew did nothing for her career other than pay her a $10,000 advance, a low figure in the lucre-intensive rap biz, but took fat helpings of her streaming, publishing, merchandising and live performance pies. What’s clear is that music labels need some serious restructuring to ensure that their artists are happy and treated fairly. Prince... who claims she's been brainwashed by lawyers. Kelis claims that she was “blatantly lied to and tricked,” by the duo and “their management and their lawyers and all that stuff.” In the end, she notes, she made nothing from sales of her first two albums. "Currently, Megan Thee Stallion is signed with 1501 Certified Entertainment, an independent label based in Houston, Tex. I am a Los Angeles-based music attorney and I write and speak about music business and legal trends.
For now, #FreeTheeStallion is trending online.
However, she wasn’t the first and will not be the last, so long as youth is being taken advantage of and sexism runs rampant throughout a male-dominated music industry.It's an issue so many female musicians are facing“Soon as I said, ‘I want to renegotiate my contract,’ everything went left,” she said in the Instagram video. pic.twitter.com/4Uz5vXwmD0 — Ronald Isley (@yoyotrav) March 1, 2020 Megan… In August, Megan Thee Stallion went on Instagram Live and accused Tory Lanez of shooting her while in an SUV on their way back to where they were staying in Los Angeles, California. From recording and publishing deals to copyright disputes to catalogThis is a BETA experience. Here’s hoping for a resolution—not only for the Megan Thee Stallion but for any artist who has been screwed over by horrible contracts.Taylor swift had millionaire parents and lawyers and STILL got locked in a contract that bit her in the end yet Megan Thee Stallion is being treated like a dumb dumb for falling into the same trap with even less resources JoJo rose to fame in 2004 with the head-bopping hit single “Leave (Get Out), which made the singer the youngest artist in history to top the Pop 100 chart.
“As soon as I asked them to renegotiate my contract, everything went left. The Houston rapper made the claims in … In a TMZ article published on March 2, the details of the rapper’s contract were made public, revealing just how bad the situation really is.
Rising rap star Megan Thee Stallion hopes a lawsuit will help her buck off the record label she says roped her into an unfair contract. "It’s really just a greedy game. She revealed in an Instagram live video that recently, her management company, Roc Nation, pointed out to her that there were some points in her contract that should probably be … Megan’s lawsuit is essentially about whether 1501 should be entitled to 60% of her streaming income, 25% of her music publishing income, and 30% of her take from live shows (above $1,000 per gig), as well as whether the rapper should be required to pay producer royalties and other costs out of her share, among other issues.
"“To new artists coming out, I just want to say, please, it might seem good, it might sound good, but you definitely got to read,” she said. And referring to the artist as a “recording” appears slap-dash and sloppy. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 1: Carl Crawford #3 of the Los Angeles Dodgers bats against the San Any way you say it, Megan Thee Stallion’s career is flying off the charts and publicity around the label dispute is only adding lift to her Pegasus-like ascent. Rising rap star Megan Thee Stallion hopes a lawsuit will help her buck off the record label she says roped her into an unfair contract.
“I was young, I think I was, like, twenty.”Eve Explains Why Her Partying Antics May Have Led to the End of Her Hit ShowKanye West Clarifies Alleged Reports of Jay-Z Selling His Masters To Def Jam For Personal GainArmani Caesar Releases Her Griselda Debut Album ‘The Liz’“So now they telling a bitch that she can’t drop no music.