Megan Thee Stallion scores another leg win over Carl Crawford, J Prince and their label 1501 Cert.
The Houston rapper’s contract dispute is ongoing after a court on Wednesday handed the rapper a small victory and ordered that Carl Crawford of Certified Entertainment and Rap-A-lot founder and 1501 business partner J Prince give depositions, TMZ reported.
Megan Thee Stallion raised eyebrows on Tuesday (August 23) when she amended her current lawsuit and sought $1 million in damages for royalties and other payments, as well as a declaration that she had completed her obligations to produce four albums under the deal with 1501 Certified Entertainment and that contract is officially over.
1501 Certified’s J Prince and Crawford, however, dispute that Megan has fulfilled her obligations as they do not consider her last two projects to be “albums” as defined in the contract. They also claim that Megan owes them millions for the money they claim they spent on developing her career before she was allegedly pursued by Roc Nation.
However, Megan and her lawyers are taking the label executives to task and were successful in getting a court order forcing the men to give depositions and account for every dime they claim they spent on the rapper or collected on behalf of her.
Megan’s determination to end her relationship with 1501 Certified Ent received a further boost after last week’s release of her fourth project. Traumatazine.
On Tuesday, her new filings asked the court to allow her lawyers to cross-examine Crawford and Prince. The filing dates are set for J Prince to appear first on October 24th and Crawford on October 25th.
The location of the deposition will be in Houston, and the proceedings will be videotaped. A court date has not yet been set.
Megan’s lawsuit against the label is a masterstroke of chess and is also a first among artists who would normally stick to the label deal and work around it. However, the Houston rapper isn’t letting the label slide as she claims she spent all of the money to produce and release her music, while 1501 basically collected 60% of her profits.
On Tuesday, both Crawford and J Prince attacked Megan’s move, with Prince calling the deal “generous” by industry standards and even accusing Jay-Z-owned Roc Nation of influencing the artist.
“The truth is that Carl discovered, developed and fully funded MTS early in her career, which led to a life-changing distribution deal for her with 300 Entertainment,” Prince said.
See also
“From the earliest agreement of 1501 with Megan, long before MTS [Megan Thee Stallion] it was a household name; 1501 generously agreed to give Megan 40% of her EARNINGS, which is significantly more than the usual record royalty a new artist receives from a record label,” J Prince wrote in a lengthy statement on Instagram. ” Any effort by MTS [Megan Thee Stallion] or RN [Roc Nation] to portray a contract that provides an unknown young artist with 40% of the label’s profits as unconscionable or unfair is patently false and contrary to customs or norms in the music industry.”
Crawford also had his two little pieces to offer in the conversation as he sought to discredit Megan by claiming she’s not from Houston, although the rapper has always said she was born in San Antonio but raised in Houston.
Megan had also hit back at the two label executives with her inflammatory responses, denying that 1501 Certified developed her as an artist and instead noted that she was the sole reason the label was successful since they were virtually unknown. in front of her.
She also challenged the men to beat her in court if their claims were true. It looks like Megan won this round, but Prince and Crawford aren’t going without a fight, so expect this legal battle between artist and label to play out in the courts as well as in the public domain.
Carl Crawford and J. Prince have not responded to the latest development.
