{"id":207268,"date":"2025-02-06T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=207268"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:22:37","slug":"irv-gotti-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/irv-gotti-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Irv Gotti Has Passed Away at The Age of 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producer and Murder Inc. co-founder,<strong> Irv Gotti<\/strong>, has unfortunately passed away on February 5th, 2025, aged 54. The cause of death remains unconfirmed at this moment, although it was known he battled health problems after suffering a stroke in 2024. Irv Gotti, born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr., founded Murder Inc. in 1998 as an imprint of Def Jam Records, alongside his brother, Chris. <strong>Lyor Cohen<\/strong> granted him the imprint after his contribution as an executive producer on <strong>DMX&#8217;s<\/strong> debut album, &#8220;It&#8217;s Dark And Hell Is Hot.&#8221; Through the label, he spearheaded the success of artists like <strong>Ja Rule<\/strong> and <strong>Ashanti<\/strong>, and has produced multiple hit singles like &#8220;Holla, Holla,&#8221; &#8220;What&#8217;s Luv?,&#8221; and &#8220;Foolish.&#8221; His signature style of blending Hip-Hop beats with smooth R&amp;B melodies shaped the sound of the charts in the late 90s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_2b1Ijhvu4?si=SuL7JroVlfuC79FJ\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer and Murder Inc. co-founder, Irv Gotti, has unfortunately passed away on February 5th, 2025,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":207269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Irv-Gotti-Obituary-Thumbnail.webp?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-RV2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}