Butter ft. Megan Thee Stallion
The one wish that has been lingering on ARMY’s mind has finally come true.
BTS ft. Megan Thee Stallion.
It has been announced today, the 25th of August 2021 that Megan Thee Stallion and BTS have collaborated on the hit track Butter. Butter was released on May 21st, 2021, and spent nine weeks as number one on the Hot100 Billboard Chart, the most by any song to date.
The collaboration should be released this Friday 27 August 2021 — unless her label blocks it.
It was reported that Thee Stallion filed a petition on Tuesday 24th of August 2021, against her label 1501 Certified Entertainment for preventing her from releasing music.
The petition that was filed in Harry County, Texas states that Megan Pete — her legal name — is seeking emergency relief to release the collab on Friday as scheduled. She also stated that blocking the song would cause “irreplaceable damage” for her and the collaborating artist — BTS.
Whereas the label claimed that the collaboration will not do her career any good, but if the collab is released — a $100,000 fee is to be paid to the label.
Megan counters the first statement by saying that, thanks to BTS international fame the release of “Butter” will help expand her fandom.
The above picture has been circulating on Twitter as soon as the news dropped. Here Megan Thee Stallion clarifies:
“My legal team, along with the BTS’ legal team have tried without success to work with 1501, which instead continued to engage in extortion.”
Additionally, BTS and Megan had a swap deal — Megan on a BTS track and BTS on a Megan track.
Within two hours an update was released: a Variety Judge ruled that Megan is clear to release the remix of BTS’ “Butter” on which she is featured.
Perhaps that is why the western industry is leery of BTS and BTS’s label HYBE. HYBE puts the artist's right and freedom of creation over profit — endangering the pyramid scheme the western industry has painted.
This is one of the too many instances where an artist had to fight their label for the right to release music and receive justified payment for their work, yet no articles were seen.
Two people of color were fighting a court case to collab, yet the world did not bat an eye, whereas their white counterparts receive more than a dozen articles written in their defense.
