Megan Thee Stallion has started using #FREEMEG and #FREETHEESTALLION hashtags on social media due to a dispute with her label 1501 Certified Entertainment. According to Hot Girl Meg, the company is preventing her from putting out new music after she attempted to renegotiate her contract.
“When I signed, I didn’t really know what was in my contract,” she said in an Instagram livestream. “I was young. I was like 20. I ain’t know everything that was in that contract. So when I got with Roc Nation, I got management — real management. I got real lawyers and they was like, ‘Did you know that this is in your contract?'”
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Megan said she didn’t know all the details in her contract but wasn’t mad at 1501. After Roc Nation alerted her to some concerns, she thought it would be simple to settle the issues with her label.
“I’m thinking in my head oh well, everybody cool,” she explained. “We all family, it’s cool, it’s nice. Lemme just ask them niggas to renegotiate my contract. Soon as I said I wanna renegotiate my contract, everything went left. It just all went bad.”
Due to the renegotiation attempt, Megan says 1501 is now blocking her from putting out any new music.
“So now, they telling a bitch that she can’t drop no music,” she said. “It’s really just a greedy game. It’s really just real greedy. Wasn’t trying to leave the label. Wasn’t trying to not give nobody money that they feel like they entitled to. I just wanted to renegotiate some shit.”
Megan also noted how she’s signed to independent labels and “worked for everything” that she does. This added to her frustration with 1501.
“I really be working and to try to stop me from working is really crazy,” she said. “All I wanna do is make music. All I wanna do is put out music. So when that money get involved, that shit really just go left all the time.”
1501 is a Houston-based label that was founded by former MLB player Carl Crawford. Megan is also signed to 300 Entertainment and has a management deal with Roc Nation.
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who tf signs to 3 different contracts and not have any real lawyers go over it?? dumb broad
She just wanted the same instead of the knowledge. Bad mistake.
That’s exactly what I was thinking lol. That’s like spending a good chunk of change on an used car, and having nobody look at it underneath. People are freaking stupid. They call them slave contracts, but it takes a special kind of stupid to sign a contract without fully understanding what it contains.
“I’m thinking in my head oh well, everybody cool,” she explained. “We all family, it’s cool, it’s nice. Lemme just ask them niggas to renegotiate my contract. Soon as I said I wanna renegotiate my contract, everything went left. It just all went bad.”. It’s insane to me that people like this have no shame for how ignorant they speak. I mean, who the fuck signs a contract without knowing every single detail? Uh, wouldn’t it be complete common sense to have a personal lawyer read the contract and explain it to you?
Unfortunately,
Common sense isn’t common. Regardless of the images these artist market to the public.
Remember the recent video of YK Osiris speaking to at his former high school, on popular rapper being stupid. Megan just proved that, even if she was looking for sympathy
Ima Boss this and ima boss that…This your introduction to the REAL game and also the beginning of truly “bossing up”. Same generational story of artist not reading/comprehending what they’re signing. Reading is SO fundamental along with true understanding…If your not going to do it, make sure someone on your team can do it for you and they have your best interest at heart and that is still a risk…knowledge is power. Artist everywhere take heed!
Nobody wants to hear her bullshit ass thot rap anyways.
A stallion is a horse with a penis.
Everybody knows that. It’s just her rap name. People have already made this joke before. You’re not funny or original.
Fact is a fact. Originality and humor have nothing to do with it. Get off her/his horse penis
She was hungry for opportunity and just started signing stuff. And then what they do is shit on the little company that supported them initially. Its not their fault that she doesnt like what was in the contract.
I thought it was some professional contract, but on reading I saw at 20. Damn, at 20 anyone can make such a mistake. She was pretty young back then and I doubt if she knew she needed a lawyer. All she was thinking off back then were the checks and the things she could buy with them. So, there is nothing new here. But wait, didn’t a 20 years old rapper just get killed for mistakenly posting his address on social media? Welcome to the 20 years club.
True, but there’s some 20 year olds who are wise beyond their age. Who research about any form of career through the internet. She was 20 around 2000, which artists who were signed to labels spoke on the negatives about it via records and interviews
Artists have no excuse in 2020. If your greedy for quick money yeah you’ll sign bad contracts. They’ll throw you some cash upfront but you’ll be their slave forever.
“Ya’ll get seeing black women be empowered….” Wtf this hooker talking bout? People who are empowered don’t go signing bad contracts without doing the knowledge.So which is it? Strong empowered women or helpless little girl who can’t read? Ya can’t be both.
yeah, bet you read the shit of your first contract…oh hold up, that’s right, you’ve never been offered shit. sit down buddy and chill out
I’m a sad boy with cum in my hair
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