*Megan The Stallion has scored a victory in her legal battle against her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment.
Earlier this month, the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper filed the lawsuit against the company and CEO Carl Crawford, seeking to get out of what she claims to be is a bogus contract.
A judge granted the rapper a temporary restraining order that allowed her to release her latest album “Suga,” much against the label’s wishes. The order was set to expire on March 16, but on Friday (March 13), a Texas District Court judge extended it.
via Complex:
Judge Robert K. Schaffer extended the restraining order until the case’s next hearing on the issue. A date for that has not yet been set, but it will be within a week of a hearing on a separate concern, about whether the case should be settled by arbitration rather than a judge. That hearing is scheduled for April 3.
The arbitration issue is being pushed by 1501 head Carl Crawford, who on Wednesday filed a motion attempting to compel Megan to have the case decided by a single arbitrator, per her contract.
Megan’s legal team, in response, argued that the clause was voluntary, not mandatory.
“Defendants reading of the contract is unreasonable,” their filing reads, the report states. “Defendants’ demand for arbitration does not preclude [Megan] from proceeding in state court.”
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Megan took to her Instagram Live to discuss the disagreement with 1501, noting that she signed the contract at age 20, and couldn’t fully comprehend the details…. “I didn’t really know what was in my contract,” she said. “I was young.”
She claims when she signed with JAY-Z’s Roc Nation for management, their lawyers said she pretty much signed a crappy contract with 1501.
“I wasn’t upset [with 1501], because I was thinking, ‘everybody cool, we all family, it’s cool, it’s nice…let me just ask [them] to renegotiate my contract’” she said in the IG video. “As soon as I asked them to renegotiate my contract, everything went left.”
Her restraining order also seeks to prevent the label from attacking her on social media, as Crawford and Rap-a-Lot Records’ founder J. Prince have allegedelly launched a smear campaign against her online. One example of this is the recent resurfacing of a five-year-old arrest mugshot.
Meanwhile, Crawford slammed her allegations in a candid interview with Rolling Stone, calling Megan “fake” and a “liar” and claiming their partnership was all good until JAY-Z entered the pictured and got in Megan’s head; essentially turning her against the him and others responsible for her success.
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