Irv Gotti, Streetwise Hip-Hop Music Mogul, Dies at 54
A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...
Irv Gotti, music executive who create Murder Inc. Records, dies at 54
Irv Gotti, a music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists such as Ashanti and Ja Rule, ...
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Irv Gotti, famed founder of Murder Inc., is dead at 54
Irv Gotti named himself after his idol, the feared gangster John Gotti Gotti was born in the Hollis section of the Queens borough in New York as Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. He later adopted the ...
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Irv Gotti, hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder, Inc., dead at 54
Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss John Gotti, which he said was given to him by Jay-Z. "I ain't going to change it," he said of his name. In 2024 ...
Irv Gotti, Hip-Hop and R&B Mogul Who Founded Murder Inc., Dies at 54
Gotti was a major player in rap and R&B around the turn of the millennium, signing and producing for the likes of Ja Rule and ...
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Irv Gotti, music executive who create Murder Inc. Records, dies at 54
Still, Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss John Gotti, which he said was given to him by Jay-Z. “I ain’t going to change it," he said of his name.