Irv Gotti on MTV’s RapFixLive

Murder Inc’s founder, Irv Gotti, gave a colorful interview yesterday on a range of topics on MTV.com’s RapFixLive with Sway Calloway. Check out the interview and leave your thoughts on our forum.

Irv Gotti went from a little-known Queens, New York, DJ to one of music’s most successful executives. After spearheading the career of 1990s rap breakout Mic Geronimo, Irv raised his stock by helping Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule all land deals at Def Jam Records in the mid- to late ’90s.

As a producer, Irv has crafted hits for Jay, DMX and Ja, as well as Jennifer Lopez, Ashanti and Foxy Brown. Things went sour when Gotti’s Murder Inc. record label was put on trial by the federal government for money laundering, and though Irv and his brother Chris were found not guilty in December 2005, the label never quite regained its footing.

Through it all, Gotti has remained one of the industry’s most electric personalities and premier hitmakers.