Before launching Murder Inc. in New York City in 1998, Gotti worked as an A&R at Def Jam, where he helped bring DMX, Jay-Z ...

Gotti, real name, Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr, worked with some of the biggest hip-hop and RnB artists of the 1990s and 2000s, ...

At the turn of the millennium, Irv Gotti – who died Wednesday at age 54 – helped bring a new class of hip-hop and R&B acts to ...

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 ...

"Reasonable Doubt" and Ashanti's single "Foolish" off her self-titled debut album in 2002. Following a successful stint working for Def Jam, where he signed DMX as an artist, the Queens-born ...

Image Among Mr. Gotti’s many noteworthy productions was Ja Rule’s first album ... on 28 Hot 100 hits, according to Billboard. Whether pushing snarling rap like DMX’s “Get at Me Dog ...

“Def Jam has lost one of its most creative soldiers who was hip-hop,” says YouTube’s Lyor Cohen. Jed Wallace targets the actress naming him in the sexual harassment and retaliation complaint she filed ...

As a writer and producer, his multi-platinum hits ... DMX was the antidote to Combs' style - stripped back, raw and connected to the street. With Gotti as executive producer, his debut album ...

George Michael scores two top 10 hits on the same chart, as his own "Careless Whisper" and Wham!'s "Last Christmas" continue to sell very well.

Doechii's “Denial is a River” jumps into the top 40 on multiple charts this week after her show-stopping Grammy performance, ...

Irv Gotti, the famed music producer, industry executive, and TV producer, has died at the age of 54. Def Jam Recordings, the ...