Before launching Murder Inc. in New York City in 1998, Gotti worked as an A&R at Def Jam, where he helped bring DMX, Jay-Z ...

The late exec's Def Jam imprint sparked a run of hit R&B and rap records and catapulted Ja Rule and Ashanti to chart-topping heights.

Gotti, real name, Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr, worked with some of the biggest hip-hop and RnB artists of the 1990s and 2000s, ...

Record executive and music entrepreneur Irv Gotti has died at the age of 54, according to The Hollywood Reporter and other ...

Irv Gotti, a respected music producer, entrepreneur, and record executive, has died at the age of 54. Although his cause of ...

Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti has died at 54. He helped launch careers for talent such as Ashanti, DMX and Ja Rule.

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

A hip-hop music legend best known for his work with DMX, Ja Rule and Ashanti is dead at age 54.

Hip-Hop mogul and Murder Inc co-founder Irv Gotti has passed away at the age of 54. The young businessman and producer was ...

Record executive and music producer Irving “Irv Gotti” Lorenzo has died at 54. “Def Jam Recordings and the extended Def Jam family of artists, executives and employees, are deeply saddened at the loss ...

Murder Inc. founder and music mogul Irv Gotti has died at the age of 54 – see tributes to the rap and R&B legend here.