The late exec's Def Jam imprint sparked a run of hit R&B and rap records and catapulted Ja Rule and Ashanti to chart-topping heights.

Gotti, real name, Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr, worked with some of the biggest hip-hop and RnB artists of the 1990s and 2000s, ...

Before launching Murder Inc. in New York City in 1998, Gotti worked as an A&R at Def Jam, where he helped bring DMX, Jay-Z ...