Irv Gotti, music producer and founder of hip-hop label Murder Inc., dies at 54

Irv Gotti, a music producer and founder of an influential rap label, has died, Def Jam Recordings said. Gotti was best known as the head of Murder Inc. Records, an imprint of Def Jam that signed chart-topping artists like Ja Rule and Ashanti in the 90s and 2000s.