Irv Gotti, the hip hop producer and music executive who co-founded the Murder Inc. label and was instrumental in the rise of stars like Ja Rule and Ashanti, died Wednesday. He was 54.
His cause of death has not been made public, but it’s known he had battled diabetes for decades and had recently suffered a series of strokes. The Hollywood Reporter first confirmed news of his death.
Born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. in 1970, Gotti grew up in Hollis Queens — notably the home of rap legends Run DMC. Immersed in the rap scene, which by the early 90s was in the process of eclipsing Rock and Roll as the era-defining form of American music, Gotti first came to wider notice producing “Can I Live” from Jay-Z’s 1996 debut album.
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