Megan Thee Stallion is taking her music again into her personal arms amid a grueling authorized battle together with her file label 1501 Licensed Leisure.
Throughout an Instagram Reside on Thursday (Oct. 12), the rapper revealed that she’s not signed to a label and might be funding her personal music tasks shifting ahead, as seen in display recordings shared by followers on social media. “This a part of my album may be very a lot so funded by Megan Thee Stallion as a result of we’re attempting to get off… Y’all know what’s the tea. However I’ve no label proper now,” she defined. “We’re doing every thing funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. So, the finances is coming from me. Motherf—ing Scorching Lady Productions! The following s— y’all about to see is all straight from Megan Thee Stallion’s mind and Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. We’re in my pockets, hotties, so let’s do our huge one.”
Meg added that she’s “excited” to be releasing music on her personal. “It’s actually simply me this go round till we signal to a brand new label. However I don’t need to signal to a brand new label proper now as a result of I simply need to do it myself,” she shared.
Billboard has reached out to Megan’s staff for extra data.
The star rapper has been preventing with 1501 for greater than two years, claiming the corporate duped a younger artist into signing an “unconscionable” file deal in 2018 that was beneath business requirements. She filed the present case in February 2022, claiming 1501 had wrongly categorized her One thing For Thee Hotties lower than an “album” — a big distinction, as she owes a sure variety of albums below her deal. Megan Thee Stallion filed a brand new grievance in August 2022 looking for greater than $1 million in damages over claims that 1501 had “systematically failed” to pay sufficient royalties. 1501 then fired again with new accusations of its personal, claiming it’s truly Megan Thee Stallion who owes “hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.”
