Music industry mourns the loss of Irv Gotti, the visionary behind Murder Inc. Records and architect of numerous hip-hop and R ...

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 ...

The loss of Irv Gotti, who died last week at the age of 54, is immense. The Hollis, Queens native was a relic from an era when being a hip-hop multi-hyphenate wasn’t about diversifying your portfolio ...

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.

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 ...

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