1501 submits forthright response to Megan Thee Stallion’s latest lawsuit

completemusicupdate.com:

Megan Thee Stallion’s label has formally responded to her most recent lawsuit against the company. As expected, 1501 Certified Entertainment reaffirms its position that last year’s compilation ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ does not qualify as one of the albums she is obliged to deliver to the label.

It also rejects her claim that she is owed more than a million dollars in unpaid royalties, insisting she actually owes 1501 millions from other elements of its wide-ranging deal with the rapper.The legal back and forth between 1501 and Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, has been rumbling on for some time.

She originally claimed that her deal with the label did not follow music industry conventions and was unfairly skewed in 1501’s favour.

After she went legal on the matter, 1501 agreed to amend elements of that deal, resulting in Pete’s lawsuit being dismissed.But then the new dispute began over the three albums Pete is obliged to deliver to 1501 and whether last year’s ‘Something For Thee Hotties’ counts as one of them.The label insists that it does not, which means – following 2020’s ‘Good News’ and last month’s ‘Traumazine’ – one more record is still owed.