A founder of Murder Inc. Records, he helped launch the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti and was credited as a producer on 28 records that made the Billboard Hot 100. By Alex Williams and John Yoon ...

Murder Inc. co-founder Irv Gotti (Photo credit: Rashad Milligan for rolling ... Irv Gotti named himself after his idol, the feared gangster John Gotti Gotti was born in the Hollis section of ...

The rapper christened him the "don of hip-hop", renaming him Irv Gotti in reference to the mafia boss John Gotti ... to match its former glories. Last July, Gotti was sued by for sexual assault ...

Rapper Meek Mill posted a photo of Gotti to his Instagram stories, saying he extended his prayers to Gotti's family. Tina Davis, a music executive who runs the Empire record label and worked ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Rapper Meek Mill posted a photo of Gotti to his Instagram stories, saying he extended his prayers to Gotti's family. Tina Davis ...

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 bad press led to Gotti dropping the word "Murder" from the title of the label, changing its name to The Inc. Still, Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss ...

Still, Gotti never changed the nickname he shared with the late Gambino family boss John Gotti ... a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect ...