The famed longtime industry exec shaped the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was pivotal in Def Jam’s late-Nineties revival ...

Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc. Records label executive who helped launch Ja Rule and Ashanti to stardom, has died at age 54.

Irv Gotti, a noted record executive, music producer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Murder Inc. Records, has ...

Irv Gotti, the prominent music producer who founded Murder Inc., has died at the age of 54, leaving behind a lasting mark on ...

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 ...

Irv Gotti, a famed music producer and founder of the hip-hop label Murder Inc., died, the record label's distributor Def Jam ...

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

Gotti produced nearly 30 Hot 100 chart hits in the US for artists including Ashanti, Ja Rule, Ye, DMX, Fat Joe, Mary J Blige ...

Irv Gotti - who co-founded the hitmaking Murder Inc. Records label and helped make early 2000s superstars out of Ja Rule and Ashanti - has died after suffering a stroke, The Hollywood Reporter ...

Murder later signed Ashanti and released her self-titled debut in 2002. Federal agents raided Murder Inc. in 2003 on suspicion the label was laundering money for gangster Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff. At ...

Gotti also worked on several solo tunes for Ashanti, including Foolish (2002) and Rain On Me (2003). At the time, both Ja Rule and Ashanti were signed to Murder Inc., and the strength of those ...

Irv, you will be missed.” In 2003, the FBI and the police raided Murder Inc.’s offices in New York, the Times reported. That was followed by a federal investigation into whether the label was ...