Irv Gotti — the music producer who co-founded hip-hop label Murder, Inc., and signed stars such as Ja Rule, Ashanti and Lloyd — has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, Murder, Inc.'s ...

Irv Gotti — the music producer who co-founded hip-hop label Murder, Inc., and signed stars such as Ja Rule, Ashanti and Lloyd — has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, Murder, Inc.'s parent label, ...

Irv Gotti — the music producer who co-founded hip-hop label Murder, Inc., and signed stars such as Ja Rule, Ashanti and Lloyd — has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, Murder, Inc.'s parent ...

Irv Gotti, who founded Murder Inc. Records and produced albums for Ja Rule, Ashanti, and DMX, has died. He was 54. The ...

Irv Gotti, the music producer best known for co-founding the Murder Inc. record label that helped launch the careers of ...

and the singer Lloyd. After follow-up releases for Ashanti and Ja Rule underperformed compared to their earlier hits, the label began to shrink, and those headliners began to depart Murder Inc ...

Murder Inc. swiftly emerged as a turn-of-the-millennium ... Gotti rebranded the label as The Inc. in Dec. 2003, releasing albums from Lloyd and Ashanti in the years that followed.

In 1998, he co-founded Murder Inc. Records with his brother, Chris Gotti, creating a powerhouse label that launched the careers of Ja Rule, Ashanti, and Lloyd, among others. Beyond his work in ...

Amid the controversies, Gotti rebranded Murder Inc as The Inc. In the late 2000s it signed Vanessa Carlton and continued to release albums by Ashanti and the R&B singer Lloyd but the label ...

Gotti later co-founded Murder Inc. Records, a subsidiary of Def Jam, in 1998, which launched the careers of Ja Rule, Ashanti, Lloyd and others. After renaming the label The Inc., Gotti entered the pop ...