Music Producer Irv Gotti Dead At Age 54

February 5. 2025

Irv Gotti

Music producer and record label owner, Irv Gotti, real name Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr, has died. Gotti was 54-years-old. Gotti was one of the biggest behind the scenes people in music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Gotti discovered the recording artists DMX, Ja Rule and Ashanti. He also produced a number of hits for various artists.

Gotti had a hand in the music career of singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, giving her some of her earliest hits such as, "I'm Real" and "Ain't It Funny (Remix)." Gotti also brought in Ashanti to sing and write on Lopez's albums  To this day many on social networking insist Ashanti has been singing on Lopez's records uncredited (Jennifer Lopez Stole Other Singers Voices For Her Albums Including Brandy And Ashanti (Video)).

Gotti and his imprint label Murder Inc gave Lopez street credibility, only for her to use the n-word and offend many on the song "I'm Real." He later remarked then Sony Music chief, Tommy Mottola, was using him to get at his ex-wife, singer Mariah Carey, by ripping off her ideas and giving them to Lopez. Gotti also spoke out against Lopez's ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is now in prison. Gotti also fell out with Diddy's coconspirator, rapper Jay Z (Rapper Jay Z Unmasked As The Man That Raped A 13-Year-Old Girl With Diddy After The Video Music Awards In 2000).

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Irv Gotti, Music Producer and Murder Inc. Records Co-Founder, Dead at 54

February 5, 2025 - Irv Gotti, the famed music producer, industry executive, and TV producer, died at the age of 54, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. The cause of death is currently unknown. The instrumental hip-hop figure, born Irving Lorenzo, died after previously suffering what his representatives deemed a “minor stroke” in early 2024. At the time, they said he had changed his diet and had been “successful in making a full recovery.”...

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