Irv Gotti, the music executive, songwriter and producer behind the reign of hip-hop and R&B stars Ja Rule and Ashanti in the ...

By Alex Williams and John Yoon Irv Gotti, who rose from spinning records as a D.J. in Queens parks to become a hip-hop and R&B titan as a founder of Murder Inc. Records, a label that turned Ja ...

Gotti produced nearly 30 Hot 100 chart hits in the US for artists including Ashanti, Ja Rule, Ye, DMX, Fat Joe, Mary J Blige ...

Irv Gotti, the music producer who created hits for Ja Rule, Ashanti, DMX and Jennifer Lopez, has died at the age of 54. Best ...

A titan of the hip-hop community and one of the genre’s greatest pioneers, Irv Gotti, has died at age 54, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death has not yet been announced, but THR ...

Gotti battled legal challenges that rocked the hip-hop industry in the early 2000s ... early 20th-century New York organised crime group. Murder Inc, which Gotti founded with his brother Chris ...

Murder Inc.’s hit streak came to a definitive halt in 2003, when Ja Rule’s arch-enemy 50 Cent became the biggest rap star in the world. At the same time, Gotti and his brother Chris got into ...

Influential music producer Irv Gotti has died at the age of 54. Rapper 50 Cent and the label Def Jam Records honored him on ...

The producer, who founded the hip-hop label Murder Inc Records, produced nearly 30 ... another record label owned by Universal Music Group - posted on social media, writing that Gotti's work ...

The rapper christened him the "don of hip-hop", renaming ... They chose the name Murder Inc after watching a documentary about the 20th-century New York organised crime group of the same name ...