Megan Thee Stallion Settles Legal Battle with Former Record Label

Megan Thee Stallion’s legal battle with her former record label has come to an end.

1501 Certified Entertainment announced in a statement posted on social media that they have “mutually reached a confidential settlement to resolve their legal differences.” PEOPLE confirms that the case was settled in Megan’s favor.

“I am pleased to announce that Megan and I have come to the table to resolve our legal differences,” 1501 Certified Entertainment CEO Carl Crawford said in a statement to PEOPLE. “During this time we grew, developed and amicably decided to part ways. I am very pleased with the outcome and confident in the future of 1501.”

“Thank you to all the supporters of Megan and 1501 Certified,” she added. “Let this moment be a valuable lesson in the importance of reconciliation to the prosperity of hip-hop and pop culture. I am honored to have worked with Megan and to be a part of her discovery as an artist. I wish Megan the best in all her future endeavors.”

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Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023.

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Earlier in October, the 28-year-old “Savage” musician revealed that she is self-funding her next project and doesn’t want to sign with a new record label anytime soon.

“I’m so excited to be doing something independently for the first time since it was just me and my mom,” she said. “I’m so excited because it’s really just me until we sign to a new label, but I don’t want to sign with a new label right now because I just want to do it on my own.” The rapper’s legal battle with her former label dates back to the beginning of her career.

Back in March 2020, she stated during an Instagram Live that her label was preventing her from releasing new music.

“I see s— that camp is talking about me, and I’m like, ‘Damn it — when you’ve got so much to say, why don’t you just tell them why you’re mad? You’re mad because I don’t want to roll over and bow like a little bitch and you don’t want to renegotiate my contract,” she said at the time.

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Megan Thee Stallion at Essence Festival 2023.

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After being granted a temporary restraining order against the company and its CEO, she was able to release a nine-song EP titled Scabies. In August 2022, she sought $1 million in relief from the label after claiming that her albums Something convenient for you and traumatized fulfilled the terms of her “unconscionable” contract.

Court documents previously obtained by PEOPLE showed the record label claimed Something convenient for you did not meet the definition of “album” and “does not meet its ‘Minimum Recording Obligation’.”

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Trouble continued in November 2022 when she alleged that the record company tried to prevent the American Music Awards from using her song “Her” to promote their show.

The “Hot Girl Summer” artist was then granted a temporary restraining order that prevented the record company from blocking the use of her music. He also ordered the label not to interfere with the rapper’s “right to use, exploit, license and publish her music for promotional content” which led to the AMA.

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