Houston, TX – J. Prince was among the defendants named in Megan Thee Stallion’s recent lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment. The statuesque rapper claimed she was in a bunk contract and once she tried to renegotiate, she said they decided to prevent her from releasing new music on Friday (March 6) as she’d planned.
Now, the Rap-A-Lot founder — who was painted as an intimidator in the suit — has addressed the situation in two new Instagram posts. He insists everything Meg has accused the label of doing is completely false.
“Megan, along with Roc Nation Employee Geetanjali Grace Lyer decided to include my name in a lawsuit wrapped around lies and stupidity,” he captioned a photo of himself with 1501 founder Carl Crawford. “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.”
Prince goes on to say they have “no problem” with renegotiating Meg’s contract but take issue with “dictators.” He also says he finds it “very interesting” Roc Nation — who manages Megan and helped file the suit — would “allow their employees to sign an affidavit and statement full of slanderous lies.”
In a second Instagram post, Prince brings up Meg’s deceased mother who died from brain cancer last May.
“Megan along with her mother, who evidently could read (God rest her soul), negotiated a good deal,” he concludes. “I extended my hand to meet with Megan, T Farris, and team personally for further negotiations. Unfortunately it never happened even though we’re all in Houston, because she’s being controlled by the very people who started this shit.
“The homie Carl was an angel in Megan’s eyes when he was spending hundreds of thousands investing in her career. Now that he’s helped her become a successful artist she stopped paying him his percentage and views him as the devil. I’m glad money don’t make me. I make money.”
Crawford spoke to Billboard about the situation earlier week and blamed JAY-Z and Roc Nation for Meg’s outrage.
“Everybody in the industry knows this is what JAY-Z and Roc Nation do,” he said. “They come in, 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.’”
On Monday (March 2), a judge granted Megan a temporary restraining order, which allows her to release her next album Suga on Friday (March 6).