{"id":4197,"date":"2014-04-22T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2014-04-22T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:09:40","slug":"jay-z-victim-in-extortion-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Jay Z Victim in Extortion Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hov-cigar.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hov-cigar.jpg?resize=250%2C231\" alt=\"hov.cigar\" width=\"250\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>TMZ reports that a collection of Jay Z\u2019s master recordings that had gone missing in 2002 was found in a California storage unit amid an alleged extortion plot.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Chauncey Mahan, a producer who worked for Jay Z from 1998-2002, was questioned by police\u00a0Friday after being found in possession of the records, which are valued between $15 million to $20 million. He wasn\u2019t charged.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ\u00a0reports that Mahan reached out to Live Nation, Jay Z\u2019s joint venture with his label, Roc-A-Fella records, and said he\u2019d auction the recordings or fork them over for a $100,000 \u201cstorage\u201d fee. They settled on $75,000, and agreed to rendezvous at a storage facility in Northridge, Calif., Friday, but cops, apparently tipped off by Jay Z\u2019s camp, swooped in.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD confiscated the tapes, and a judge will determine ownership, the website reported, noting a grand larceny complaint was filed with NYPD, presumably because the recordings went missing from New York.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TMZ reports that a collection of Jay Z\u2019s master recordings that had gone missing in 2002 was found in a California storage unit amid an alleged extortion plot.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[598,807],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-jay-z","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-15H","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}