A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...

Famed music executive Irv Gotti, founder of hip-hop label Murder Inc. which produced superstars including Ashanti and Ja Rule, has died at the age of 54, according to the record’s distributor Def Jam.

Hip-hop icon and record executive Irving “Irv Gotti” Lorenzo Jr., the mastermind behind Murder Inc. Records, has died at 54. The cause of death has not been announced, though Gotti had battled ...

The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...

Irv Gotti — who co-founded the hitmaking ... That was just the start of the commercial success of Murder Inc., which the Gotti brothers titled after the crime syndicate of the same name.

Music producer Irv Gotti found himself thrust in the spotlight when he was slammed with money laundering charges.

Irv Gotti sadly passed away Wednesday night (Feb. 5) after suffering a stroke, and the Hip-Hop community paid its respects to ...

Irv Gotti/ Instagram Irv always encouraged his ... Love you pops." Unlike his siblings, Sonny did not appear in Growing Up Hip Hop: New York, opting to live mostly out of the public eye.

Dash admitted that Gotti’s death has blindsided ... “When I found out the struggles, I texted him and said, ‘Irv, regardless of what, we’re brothers, and I don’t want to see you die ...

Just 54, the longtime music executive was robbed of the chance to truly grow old, a theme far too common these days, especially in Hip-Hop.