Under the alias DJ Irv, he also produced “Can I Live” from Jay-Z’s 1996 debut album ... Rest In Power: Notable Black People Who Died In 2025 was originally published on blackamericaweb.com ...

More than 90 percent of the people who died were Black – and most of them died from ... A visual representation of the new Cape Town memorial by Dean Jay architects [Courtesy of Commonwealth ...

Hip-hop icon and record executive Irving “Irv Gotti” Lorenzo Jr., the mastermind behind Murder Inc. Records, has died at 54.

Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc Records co-founder and producer behind some of the biggest hits of the Nineties and Noughties, has died aged 54 ... christened as such by Jay-Z – started out as ...

Irv Gotti, the Murder Inc Records co-founder and producer behind some of the biggest hits of the Nineties and Noughties, has died aged 54 ... Gotti – christened as such by Jay-Z – started out as a ...

Gotti (born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr.) was known for co-founding the record label Murder Inc. Records in 1998, an imprint of ...

Irv Gotti, the US music producer who created hits for Ja Rule, Ashanti, DMX and Jennifer Lopez, has died at the age of 54 ... like pop music," he told the Guardian in 2002. "But we make black music ...

Our subject today is death and classical music. There’s a story, Jay Capperauld tells me, about Anton Bruckner that is frankly rather morbid.

“It’s rampant with Black people,” he said on Drink Champs at the time. “What it does is, it starts deteriorating your body. No, [it’s not under contol]. I’ve been diagnosed with ...