Megan Thee Stallion and 1501 Certified Entertainment’s legal back-and-forth doesn’t seem to be ending any time soon, as the label has now countersued Meg. It claims her 2021 effort Something for Thee Hotties wasn’t an album and shouldn’t be counted toward their contractual agreement.
The countersuit was filed on Monday, first reported by TMZ and confirmed via court documents reviewed by Complex, a month after Megan hit the company with a suit of her own, claiming the project was indeed an album. Carl Crawford’s 1501 asserts that Something for Thee Hotties is a compilation of older material “made up of 21 recordings and includes spoken interlude recordings on which MTS does not appear as well as several previously-released recordings.”
The label claims the project contains 29 minutes of what it classifies as new material from Megan Thee Stallion, and that it “was described in the music press as a compilation record of archival materials and some new recordings.” If a judge declares Something does not count toward her deal, she would owe the label two more albums.
Megan’s attorney Brad Hancock answered Complex’s request for comment with the following: “This is yet another absurd attempt by 1501 to disregard Megan’s album and squeeze more money and more free work out of her for as long as possible. We will ask the court to protect Megan from this type of abuse.”
In the new suit, signed off on by Steven Zager, Lohr Beck, and Lauren Newman of King & Spalding LLP, the label alleges that it “only learned of the release hours before it came out,” and that her latest “lawsuit is groundless because, as she knows, Something for The Hotties does not meet the requirements of an ‘album’ under the three contracts that she has signed with 1501.”
