On Monday afternoon (March 2), a Texas federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to rapper Megan Thee Stallion (real name: Megan Pete) against her label 1501 Certified Entertainment and its CEO, former Major League baseball star Carl Crawford, according to Billboard.
The judge ordered 1501 Entertainment “to do nothing to prevent Pete’s new records from being released, distributed, and sold,” along with prohibiting any interference with her or her career on social media, or through her collaborators or associates.
In An interview with Billboard, Crawford denies any claims made by him or his 1501 label aimed at preventing Megan’s musical output. “This is a total lie,” Crawford says. “Nothing is true that she said. It’s crazy for me to be greedy and take money from her. I never tried to take anything from her.
According to Crawford, she went silent on the radio after Megan signed on to Roc Nation in September, opting not to pay him or any of the money she owed in 1501. In Crawford’s eyes, the tactics of the “Hot Girl Summer” MC were to avoid paying him for merchandise and live touring proceeds owed to him by the terms of their deal, so that he would renegotiate her contract for four albums which she initially signed.
“Let’s talk about your contract. It’s a great contract for a first-timer,” he offers. “What contract gives parts of their masters and 40% royalties and all that kind of stuff? Ask Jay-Z to pull one of his artists’ first contracts, and let’s compare it to what Megan got… I guarantee they won’t ever show you that.”
Billboard spoke to Crawford about Megan’s allegations, why he thinks that Jay-Z and Roc Nation are attempting to “stronghold” his business, and what he hopes this pending lawsuit will resurrect.
My initial reaction was, “Man, I can’t believe this is serious.” She just has so many holes in her story, and it’s almost on some delusional type stuff. The bubble of Hollywood and her eight million followers has really clouded her head, because the stuff that she’s saying is not true. It’s a whole lie. Nothing is true that she said. Me being greedy and taking money from her, that’s crazy. I never tried to take nothing from her. The only thing we ever did was give, give, give. Now, she fell for the oldest trick in the industry: the conquer and divide theme.
Everybody in the industry knows this is what Jay-Z and Roc Nation do: They come in, the find the smallest things wrong with the problem — because there weren’t any problems before she left — and then she says that I didn’t want to negotiate? Ok, tell everybody your definition of negotiating. Your definition is, “OK. I’m going to send Suge Knight’s old lawyers to come in, and it’s a stick-up…'” Of course, I’m like, “This isn’t a negotiation. This is a robbery.”
They want to make it look like I’m greedy? No, they’re trying to keep me out of everything. She keeps saying, ‘Them n—as over there negotiated my contract.’ Them n—as are sitting right next to her. T. Farris is the one. Her mom did the contract. I’m new to the business. I let this guy T. Farris run my whole business, because I knew absolutely nothing about it. Zero. So he wrote your contract up. I didn’t do it.
They want to make a big deal about it. We signed a deal. Honor your contract and let’s just keep doing business how we been doing and everything is fine. Nobody is trying to rob you.
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