1501 Certified Ent. CEO Carl Crawford has finally apologized to Megan Thee Stallion following their lengthy legal battle.
In late 2019, Megan signed a management deal with JAY-Z’s Roc Nation without the knowledge of 1501, and they’ve been at odds ever since.
The two have been going back and forth in court, most recently in February 2022, after Meg asked a judge to declare her 2021 project Something For Thee Hotties as an album that fulfills her contract.
However, a month later, Crawford counter-sued Meg and called her project a “bullshit ass mixtape.”
Months later, Meg modified her case to ask for $1 million in damages after the release of her sophomore album Traumazine in August 2022, alleging that the project had fulfilled the terms of her contract with 1501, allowing her to leave.
Since then, Carl Crawford has expressed regret for his fallout with the Houston Hottie, admitting he made “mistakes” and promising to stop disparaging her publicly while acknowledging that their legal dispute remains unresolved.
“Me and Megan, we haven’t talked since 2019,” he told TMZ. “We’ve been going through, I guess, what you guys see online, and it’s unfortunate because I never wanted to have a situation where I was, you know, going back and forth with her on the internet.”
Adding, “I never had any problems with Megan Thee Stallion. It’s just the social media stuff; it turned really, really sour. You take this social media part out of it; we don’t have a problem … I’m done with that.”
He said, “You not gon’ hear me mention Megan Thee Stallion’s name in the media unless I’m doing something like this. You not gon’ see me texting or making a post or doing any of that stuff that would cause social media to go crazy.”
Last April, Crawford fueled the fires of their conflict by posting a video of him partying with Tory Lanez in a club following allegations that he shot Meg in the foot during a drunken argument.
Crawford clarified that he owed no loyalty to Lanez and acknowledged that his provocative post was a “petty” action on his part.
“Oh, the thing is with that, I don’t stand with nobody in that situation,” he explained. “That’s none of my business. You get caught up in the internet stuff and doing stuff just to — I don’t know if we can just use the word petty ’cause there’s been a lot of petty stuff going on.”
“I normally don’t do stuff like that. I think I just got wrapped up in the whole scheme of things that was going on. We all make mistakes. I’m not on nobody’s side with that. I was just… I don’t even know.”
He then blamed his actions on his “competitive nature” as a former professional athlete.
“Just call it, I don’t know, competitive nature,” he said. “Playing sports, you’re used to people yelling at you, and you go back and forth, so I kinda got caught up in that game a little bit which I probably shouldn’t have done because I’m in a different game now, and I can’t just treat it as a fan yelling at me, and I get to yell back.”
After his high-profile battle with Megan, Carl Crawford appointed industry veteran Kai “Verse” Tyler as the label’s new president to restore 1501’s “bad” reputation.
In a conversation with TMZ, Tyler stated that 1501 has no ill will toward Megan Thee Stallion, JAY-Z, or Roc Nation and justified Crawford’s relationship with Lanez as an inexperienced music executive.
“At the end of the day, [Carl] doesn’t know him,” he said. “Once again, a guy that doesn’t know the business of music and that politics side … ‘Don’t stand with this player because the Red Sox might not like it later.’ He doesn’t understand that’s how we move in the business of music.”
Megan Thee Stallion has not yet responded to Carl Crawford’s apology. She has kept a low profile since Tory Lanez’s shooting trial started in December, but she did return to the spotlight to celebrate her 28th birthday earlier this month.
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