By Alex Williams and John Yoon Irv Gotti, who rose from spinning records as a D.J. in Queens parks to become a hip-hop and R&B titan as a founder of Murder Inc. Records, a label that turned Ja ...

Irv Gotti, a music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists, has died. He was 54.

Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss John Gotti, which he said was given to him by Jay-Z. "I ain't going to change it," he said of his name. In 2024 ...

Irv Gotti named himself after his idol, the feared gangster John Gotti Gotti was born in the Hollis section of the Queens borough in New York as Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. He later adopted the ...

Still, Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss John Gotti, which he said was given to him by Jay-Z. “I ain’t going to change it," he said of his name.

Irv Gotti, the music producer who created hits for Ja Rule, Ashanti, DMX and Jennifer Lopez, has died at the age of 54. Best ...

The rapper christened him the "don of hip-hop", renaming him Irv Gotti in reference to the mafia boss John Gotti. His next move was to sign gravel-voiced rapper DMX to the legendary rap label Def ...