Irv Gotti, the influential music executive who cofounded Murder Inc. Records — the label that helped launch Ja Rule, Ashanti, and more to stardom — has died at age 54. Def Jam Recordings ...

Legendary record producer and executive Irv Gotti, who co-founded the label Murder Inc. Records, has died. He was 54. Throughout his career, Gotti worked with some of the biggest names in hip-hop ...

By Shirley Halperin Irv Gotti, a noted record executive, music producer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Murder ... called The Inc., Vanessa Carlton signed with the label and Gotti ...

Murder Inc. Records, LLC, also abbreviated as The Inc. Records, is an American record label founded by brothers and record executives Chris and Irv Gotti in 1998. The label's flagship artist was ...

The bad press around the investigation led to Gotti dropping the word “Murder” from the title of the label to change its name to The Inc. “All of these big records, and people would still ...

Ashanti at the Target Center in Minneapolis (Photo by Nagashia Jackson for rolling out) The music industry continues to process the sudden loss of Irv Gotti, the influential founder of Murder Inc ...

Irv Gotti, the prominent music producer who founded Murder Inc., has died at the age of ... lavish property portfolio in California. The record label founder—whose clients included Jennifer ...

A cause of death has not yet been confirmed for the Queens-born co-founder of Def Jam imprint Murder Inc. Records ... fans worldwide,” continued the record label. “Our thoughts are with ...

ATLANTA — The music world is mourning the death of Irv Gotti, the legendary hip-hop producer and co-founder of Murder Inc. Records ... stretched beyond his label, working alongside some of ...

He founded Murder Inc. Records in 1998 with his brother ... That was followed by a federal investigation into whether the label was founded with drug money. Gotti faced charges of laundering ...