Ja Rule struggled to get through his speech at Irv Gotti’s funeral following the Murder Inc. co-founder’s sudden death. The ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Before launching Murder Inc. in 1998, Gotti worked as an A&R at ... we both ended up at Universal, where he had Lloyd and I had Akon. Doug Morris had a plan for us, but we never quite figured ...

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 ...