Irv Gotti, cofounder of Murder Inc. Records who worked with artists including Ashanti and Ja Rule, is dead at age 54 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Murder Inc artists attended the funeral service of Irv Gotti, the late music executive and record producer, at the Greater ...

Irv Gotti’s vision helped save hip-hop’s foundational ... Cohen gloatingly pointed to a picture on his wall of him hugging 50 Cent, the brothers’ then-archenemy; imagine Clive Davis razzing ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

Adopting the name DJ Irv, he started playing local parties ... Despite minting a stack of platinum records, the Gotti brothers soon found trouble. In 2003, the F.B.I. and the police raided Murder ...

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.