Irv Gotti, hip-hop mogul and producer, dead at 54
The Queens native responsible for some of hip hop’s biggest acts like Ja Rule and Ashanti reportedly passed away Wednesday […] ...
Murder Inc. Records founder Irv Gotti dead at 54
Hip-hop legend Irv Gotti, founder of Murder Inc. Records, has passed away at 54, per Def Jam. A cause of death has not been released.
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Origins of hip-hop
African-American DJs, such as Grandmaster Flash and the Jamaican-born 'father of hip-hop' Kool Herc, extended the instrumental sections (or 'breaks') from records by mixing between two identical ...