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 ...

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 ...

Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc. Records founder and music producer who worked with DMX, Aaliyah, Kanye West and Jay-Z, has died. He was 54. The Grammy winner reportedly died on Wednesday in New York ...

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.