Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr. professionally known as Irv Gotti, was an American record producer and record executive has died at the age of 54 after a stroke.

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Irv Gotti, cofounder of Murder Inc. Records who worked with artists including Ashanti and Ja Rule, is dead at age 54. Multiple outlets confirmed the news on Wednesday, February 5.

Irv Gotti, a music executive who founded Murder Inc. Records with his brother and built a hip-hop empire that produced some of the biggest rap and R&B albums of the early 21st century, has died at 54.