According to court documents obtained by Billboard, Megan sued 1501 a third time in February 2022, claiming it was hindering her career by trying to lock her into her contract. As part of the Minimum Recording Commitment in her contract, Megan has to release a certain number of albums to satisfy the contract. In her lawsuit, she claimed 1501 was classifying her album "Something For Thee Hotties" as a mixtape, so she would be stuck in her contract releasing more music under 1501 for longer.
Megan alleges she wasn't told up front that "Something For Thee Hotties" wouldn't be an album and that 1501 didn't inform her it didn't qualify as an album until two months after its release. The label told Billboard she was informed. "She can't just deliver us an album that we did not approve and then claim it satisfies her recording contract," 1501's lawyer Steven M. Zager said in a statement. "It doesn't, and the contract is pretty clear about that."
Meanwhile, in a statement via Billboard, Megan's lawyers said, "1501's new position, taken months after the album's release, is clearly a ruse in an effort to try to take further advantage of Pete, at great expense and not in good faith," her attorneys wrote at the time."
The reason Megan is likely fighting for this classification so hard is because, according to Complex, she only owes 1501 one more album under her current contract if "Something For the Hotties" is counted as one.
