Megan Thee Stallion is on BTS’s ‘Butter’ remix and she had to fight her label for us to hear it

BTS’s summer hit “Butter” previously spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, so of course, any artist in this industry would love to feature or remix the track. It’s the KPop kiss! “Hot Girl Summer” rapper Megan Thee Stallion is just that lucky artist: she features on the “Butter” remix that’s set to drop on Friday, but for a while there, it looked like we might never get the chance to hear her smooth, buttery verses due to her record label attempting to block its release.

If there’s one thing we know about Megan, she’s no shrinking violet, so she took her record label to court to fight their attempted block. According to legal documents obtained by Variety, a judge has ruled that Megan (who is named in the documents by her legal name Megan Pete) is clear to release the remix this Friday the 27^th as scheduled. Phew!

But who has ever heard of a record label trying to block such a huge and much-anticipated collab like this? The story between Megan and her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, run by former major league baseballer Carl Crawford, is a messy one.

Megan signed with them when she was just 20, and the now-26-year-old has already faced them in court once before. Last summer, she filed against them for allegedly preventing her from releasing her EP “Suga” and was granted a temporary restraining order. If you didn’t know you could get a restraining order against a company, now ya know.

So in the case of Megan’s “Butter” remix vs 1501, she claimed in court documents that the blocking of her track by the company amounts to a breach of the restraining order.

“If Pete is not allowed to release a new track this Friday on which she is the featured artist in a remix with BTS of the song called, ‘Butter,’ her music career will suffer irreparable damage, including a devastating impact to her relationships with her fans and with other recording artists in the music industry,” the court document stated. “Such irreparable injury to her personal goodwill and the silencing of her artistic expression in music cannot be compensated in the way of monetary damages. As such, Pete seeks emergency relief from this Court.”

“The release of new music from Pete is vital to maintain her status as a relatively new but still up and coming artist,” the court filing continued. “Absent immediate help from the Court, Pete’s art will be impacted, the release of the song derailed, and Pete’s goodwill, reputation, and overall career will suffer detrimental, undesirable, and irreversible harm.”

Yesterday, the court agreed with her and gave her the go-ahead to release the track on Friday as scheduled.

But TMZ is reporting that the fight is far from over. According to their reports, Megan believes their attempted block is just a cover – the real reason being they want Megan to pay them a six-figure sum to sign off on the song’s release.

During the restraining order proceedings last year, Megan even took to Instagram Live to speak plainly and frankly about her ongoing dispute with her label.

“I didn’t really know what was in my contract,” she said, as reported by Complex. “I was young, I think I was, like, twenty.”

“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 explained when she realized she wasn’t entirely knowledgable of its contents.

 “As soon as I asked them to renegotiate my contract, everything went left,” she said. “So now they telling a b***h that she can’t drop no music. It’s really just a greedy game.”

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