Megan Thee Stallion Says She Not Signed to a Label, Funding Her Next Project Personally [Video]

Megan Thee Stallion says she is putting up her own money to fund her music career. In other words, she isn’t signed to a record label.

“We’re doing everything funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion pockets,” the rapper revealed.

In an Instagram Live video from Oct. 11, the 28-year-old female emcee said she is footing the bill for her next project and isn’t currently signed to a record label.

“So, the budget is coming from me. Motherf—ing hot girl productions,” she said in the video, accompanied by who appears to be producer Max Julian beside her.

“We in my pockets, hotties, so let’s do our big one!”

Megan also revealed she isn’t looking to sign with a label at the moment.

“I’m so excited to be doing something for the first time independent since it was just me and my mama. So excited cause it’s really just me this go ’round until we sign to a new label, but I don’t wanna sign to a new label right now because I just wanna do it myself,” she added, as her collaborator yells, “Hot girl productions” in the background.

She also accused her former record label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, of sabotaging the promotion of her 2022 album Traumazine following their years-long clash. Megan, who formally goes by Megan Pete, was granted a temporary restraining order against the record label and her distributor, 300 Entertainment, after they allegedly tried to block the American Music Awards from using the song “Her” to promote the show, PEOPLE reported

“My label already told me. They was like, ‘Bitch, ‘Traumazine’ going to hell,'” she joked in the video.

Megan has been locked in a legal battle with 1501 for years; in August 2022, she legally tried for a million-dollar relief from the label after alleging that her last two albums fulfilled the requirements of her “unconscionable” contract, and in 2020, she accused 1501 of stopping her from releasing new music after she tried to renegotiate her contract.