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.

Irv Gotti, the legendary Hip-Hop producer and Murder Inc. co-founder has passed away at the age of 54 after suffering a ...

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Hip-hop legend Irv Gotti, founder of Murder Inc. Records, has passed away at 54, per Def Jam. A cause of death has not been released.

“Def Jam has lost one of its most creative soldiers who was hip-hop,” says YouTube’s Lyor Cohen. By Shirley Halperin Irv Gotti, a noted record executive, music producer and entrepreneur best known as ...

NEW YORK — Irv Gotti, the boisterous, smiley music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists, has died. He was 54. Def Jam Recordings, which was the ...

Records co-founder Irv Gotti on Wednesday (Feb. 5), tributes poured in from the hip-hop world, including from the label where he got his start, Def Jam. Gotti started out in A&R at the hip-hop label, ...

Irv Gotti, famed music producer and founder of Murder Inc. Records, who helped launch the careers of such artists as Ashanti, ...

“Def Jam Recordings and the extended Def Jam family of artists, executives and employees, are deeply saddened at the loss of Irv Gotti,” Def Jam said in a statement released late Wednesday.

Blige, and several more artists. He was the founder of the record label Murder Inc. and an executive at the parent company Def Jam Recordings. Gotti was as controversial in the music industry as ...