A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 records that made the Billboard Hot 100. By Alex Williams and John Yoon ...

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 ...

Initially reported by AllHipHop, Gotti was “declared dead” Wednesday (Feb. 5) morning days after reportedly suffering ... own near-death medical emergency last year, remembered the Hip-Hop ...

Irv Gotti, the producer and music industry mogul who launched the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti, has died at the age of 54, ...

Dame Dash reacts to the passing of Irv Gotti and reveals he reached out to Irv Gotti after discovering his struggles with diabetes despite them not seeing eye to eye in the last couple of years of ...

The circumstances surrounding Gotti’s last moments have not been disclosed ... Gotti spoke to The Shade Room about his health just days later. “I’m getting older. That’s all.

The rapper christened him the "don of hip-hop", renaming him Irv Gotti in reference to the mafia boss John Gotti ... to match its former glories. Last July, Gotti was sued by for sexual assault ...

He also trolled Gotti after he was photographed walking with a cane following a stroke last August ... passed away days after suffering another stroke that caused a brain bleed.

Addressing the shock news after several days, Ashanti ... ‘classy’ statement. Gotti’s cause of death is currently unknown, although he suffered a stroke last year and had battled diabetes ...