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Music industry veteran, ClashTV co-founder Chris Gotti Lorenzo (Photo by Derrel Jazz Johnson for rolling out) Irv Gotti, who was the CEO of Murder Inc. at the turn of the century, provided the ...

By Katie Atkinson Executive Digital Director, West Coast Irv Gotti — who co-founded the hitmaking Murder Inc. Records label and helped make early 2000s superstars out of Ja Rule and Ashanti ...

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Feb. 4. Irv Gotti, 54. A music mogul who founded Murder Inc. Records and was behind major hip-hop and R&B artists such as Ashanti and Ja Rule. Feb. 5. Virginia McCaskey, 102. She inherited the Chicago ...

Soon after, his Irv Gotti persona was created when he founded the rap label Murder Inc. Records, bringing along artists like DMX and Ja Rule and signing others like Ashanti. There he became the ...