Irv Gotti has passed away at the age of 54. The cause of death has not been known yet, but the news surfaces months after the music producer suffered a stroke.

"John Wayne Gacy was my Aunt's neighbor and was the clown at my cousins' birthday parties several times." View Entire Post › ...

It has been a heartbreaking year so far for the music world with nearly 30 singers or industry insiders having died already. Country music stars who could headline a Super Bowl halftime show The ...

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

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.

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 ...