A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 ...

Daymond John is mourning the loss of his childhood friend Irv Gotti, like countless others in the music industry -- and ...

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