UPDATE: Megan has now reacted to J. Prince’s statement with her own. On her Instagram, she writes:
“ACTS ARE FACTS AND THE FACTS ARE PUBLIC ‼️ I’m extremely pleased that 1501 and Carl Crawford were denied the request to dissolve the Court order and try to stop my music from being released. I will proceed with the release of “SUGA”. On Friday March 6,
To be clear,
I will stand up for myself and won’t allow two men to bully me, I am NO ONES PROPERTY. Y’all are choosing to highlight the issue of music splits…talk about everything else.
This has nothing to do with anyone else including JAY-Z, stop deflecting and trying to make this a publicity stunt,
I want my rights,
The facts are;
1. 1501 doesn’t want to approve my budget to put out my project that the court is allowing to be released.
2. 1501 tried to stop my release, I prevailed in court
3. 1501 tried to fight the decision today, the court denied 1501’s request🤷🏽♀️ respect my deceased mother, she’s not here, you don’t know her, you weren’t involved,
Carl should speak for himself,
All the facts are public record available at the courthouse in Houston.”
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The back and forth between Megan Thee Stallion and Carl Crawford has taken an interesting turn.
On Monday, the rapper went on Instagram and accused her label of stopping her from releasing new music and renegotiating her original deal. On Tuesday (March 2), Megan filed a suit and obtained a retraining order against the label which prevents them from stalling her music and attacking her online.
Megan claimed that the contract states that 1501 will get 60% of her recording income, with payment for engineers, producer, artists etc. coming out of her 40%. The contract also supposedly states that all of Megan’s touring and performance money go to the label for it to be shared out later, but the rapper claims payments are incomplete and purposely deceptive. Where does J. Prince come in all of this? The lawsuit mentions that Carl’s company 1501 Certified Entertainment has a close relationship with Rap-a-lot Records founder J. Prince and that Prince has been intimidating Megan and others in business dealings.
J. Prince has now responded to Megan and her Roc Nation manager Geetanjali Grace Iyer’s statement in the affidavit filed in the court. His account is similar to what Carl Crawford said in his interview with Billboard earlier this week, calling Megan a “fraud” and “liar.”
“Megan, along with Roc Nation Employee Geetanjali Grace Lyer decided to include my name in a lawsuit wrapped around lies and stupidity,” said J. Prince in his Instagram post.
Here’s his full response:
“BREAKING NEWS ALERT ‼️Houston we have a problem Megan, along with Roc Nation Employee Geetanjali Grace Lyer decided to include my name in a lawsuit wrapped around lies and stupidity. We gone get this shit straight.
Now let’s deal with the root of this issue. The root is a familiar one for me coming from a successful independent record labels perspective. We as independent record labels make many sacrifices along with our artists. After we do all the hard work together with artists, it’s a known fact that major record labels and established managers attempt to poach the fruits of our labor.
One of the first things they do is criticize the deal that raised that artist from the dead. These record labels and managers don’t want shit to do with these artists until the hard work, risk, sacrifices, and resources have been spent by the little guys. This is the same technique of the culture vultures. I didn’t allow this to happen to me when New York and LA record labels attempted to take my artists- so they labeled me as malicious for fighting back. I didn’t allow it then so I damn sure ain’t gonna allow it to happen to 1501 Records or any of the other independent record labels that I’m associated with.
For the record we have no problem with negotiating with Megan but we do have a problem with dictators. I find it very interesting that Roc Nation would allow their employee to sign an affidavit and statement full of slanderous lies on my methods of doing business when we have partnered together on several occasions. I don’t think Jay Z is aware of this but only time will tell.
Megan even though she signed an affidavit, talked down, and lied in court documents on me… I understand how lawyers brainwash artist to milk them of funds in lawsuits that they know they can’t win. Megan seems to be a perfect candidate for self destruction. Any artist in the music industry will testify that a 40% profit share is a great deal especially for an unestablished artist that til this day has never delivered an album.
To end this I give credit to where credit is due. Megan along with her mother, who evidently could read (God rest her soul), negotiated a good deal.”
Yesterday, Megan announced that she would be releasing her new album Suga on March 6th which was originally supposed to come out in May.
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