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The Los Angeles Police Department has reportedly decided to fall back on pursuing a serious criminal case against a former Jay Z affiliate who allegedly tried to extort millions from Live Nation. #TheJayZTapes
Details of the case’s current status surfaced online early Wednesday (May 14).
TMZ has learned, the rapper’s camp is no longer pursuing criminal extortion charges over $20 million worth of Jay Z songs … and police have closed their investigation as a result. TMZ broke the story … producer Chauncey Mahan was detained by police last month after Jay’s people accused him of stealing the master recordings for several big Hova songs back in 2002 — and then trying to hold them ransom … for a $100,000 “storage fee.” (TMZ)
Former Roc-A-Fella producer Just Blaze addressed the headline-generating case last month.
“Lol. He was never the brightest. One correction: he was an engineer, not a producer.,” Blaze tweeted April 21.
“Chauncey stayed effing up. Big part of the reason Hip and I brought in Guru.”
“Ill never forget the day Chaunce stepped to Duro wanting to fight lol. This guy ruined every tape transfer for the Dynasty Album.”
“Duro calls him out on it. He runs over to Soundtrack studios, comes in the room like “yo Duro I ain’t no bitch” takes his jacket off.”
“Me and Duro just looked at him. Blankest of stares.. And went back to work.”
“If you listen to Bleek’s version of “is that your b***h” you’ll notice it’s in mono. Why? Bc Chauncey. Lol.”
“If u listen to “get your mind right” from Dynasty, You’ll notice all the choruses after the first one fall in the wrong places. Bc Chauncey” (Just Blaze’s Twitter)
Blaze also denied using his Twitter rant to blast the former Roc family member.
“Oh. And I have backups of just about all of those files Chauncey tried to extort for. Dummy.,” Blaze added.
“Last thing @ind3lible and I did before we shut down baseline was a digital back up of EVERYTHING that was ever done there. EVERYTHING.”
“I’m not “blasting” dude. Saw funny story that brought back some memories. bad as some of those situations were, I’m happy i can laugh @ them” (Just Blaze’s Twitter)
Last month, reports revealed the suspect had been drilled by Los Angeles police over the recordings.
Here’s the backstory … Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records recorded a boatload of master recordings between 1998 – 2002. We’re told in 2002 the masters went missing — Jay Z and his people assumed they were lost. Fast forward to this past Friday. Mahan apparently had a number of the masters in his Northridge, CA storage facility. (TMZ)
#TheJayZTapes
