Jay-Z is in a battle in Alabama as Tony Buzbee used the rapper’s personal lyrics to argue for dismissal of an extortion lawsuit.

Jay-Z is dealing with a pointy authorized counterpunch in Alabama the place legal professional Tony Buzbee is making an attempt to get the rap mogul’s extortion lawsuit tossed by throwing his personal lyrics again at him.

Buzbee’s authorized workforce filed a movement to dismiss the go well with, arguing that Jay-Z is utilizing the courts to retaliate in opposition to legal professionals who represented a lady accusing him of kid sexual abuse.

The girl, often known as Jane Doe, alleged in 2024 that she was assaulted by Jay-Z and Diddy in 2000 when she was 13.

Although Jay-Z wasn’t initially named within the New York lawsuit, his identify was later added after his authorized workforce refused a non-public mediation supply.

As an alternative of negotiating, Jay-Z sued Buzbee and his agency in California for extortion and emotional misery.

After the New York case was dismissed in February 2025, Jay-Z filed one other lawsuit in Alabama, this time accusing Doe and her legal professionals of malicious prosecution, defamation and conspiracy.

Buzbee’s workforce says the Alabama court docket has no enterprise listening to the case.

Buzbee’s legal professional Matthew Jackson accused Jay-Z of utilizing his affect to silence critics.

“As an alternative of accepting Doe’s invitation to confidentially focus on a settlement of her claims, Carter selected scorched-earth litigation…alleging that they had been extorting him and deliberately inflicting him emotional misery. Carter and his representatives additionally dispatched investigators to harass Doe, her family and friends, in addition to the Buzbee Agency’s present and former workers, shoppers, and different enterprise contacts, and to additionally attempt to coerce the Buzbee Defendants’ former shoppers to sue them,” Jackson stated.

To problem Jay-Z’s declare that the allegations harmed his fame, Buzbee’s workforce cited lyrics from his 2000 hit “Huge Pimpin’.” Jackson wrote,

“To place these allegations of their correct context, it’s useful to view them alongside the next lyrics from one in all Carter’s most profitable songs… ‘You recognize I thug ‘em, f### ‘em, love ‘em, go away ‘em ‘trigger I don’t f#####’ want ‘em.’”

The movement additionally calls Jay-Z’s conspiracy declare a “authorized fantasy” and says the rapper hasn’t met the authorized threshold for malicious prosecution beneath New York legislation.

The Alabama court docket has not but dominated on the movement to dismiss.

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