Nelly and Ashanti are perfectly comfortable with being held up as examples of “spinning the block,” or getting back together ...

Singer Ashanti, left, addresses the audience during a ceremony in Hollywood on April 7, 2022. Record producer Irv Gotti, right, at the Paley Center in New York on Aug. 19, 2019.

Irv Gotti, the former Murder Inc. boss, says Ashanti ran like a cockroach after he was arrested for money laundering related to gangster Kenneth McGriff.

Ashanti addressed record producer Irv Gotti's death with an Instagram post on Feb. 7. The record producer, who worked with Ashanti in the early 2000s, died on Feb. 5.

In the case of Irv Gotti and Ashanti, that appears to be the case. He owned the record label she signed to, and she was also more than 10 years his junior, but Gotti says he was in love.

Irv Gotti chats with USA TODAY about his BET docuseries, the backlash over his Ashanti comments and more at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.

Ashanti’s Career After Her Time with Irv Gotti After her collaboration with Irv Gotti and Murder Inc. Records, Ashanti ...

Irv Gotti, who was the CEO of Murder Inc. at the turn of the century, provided the launch pad from which Ashanti and Ja Rule rocketed into musical orbit, selling millions of records.

Irv Gotti, who died in February 2025 at age 54, was the subject of an ‘IRL’ podcast episode in 2022, when Ashanti told Angie Martinez that she never dated the music exec. She also said Gotti ...

Ashanti was Murder Inc's flagship female artist from 2002-2009, when she parted ways with the label. In 2019, Irv Gotti claimed he was in a short-lived relationship with Ashanti at a time when he ...

Ashanti and Irv Gotti *In a heartfelt message on Instagram, Ashanti broke her silence on the death of Irv Gotti, the cofounder of Murder Inc. and a significant figure in her career.

Irv Gotti, the producer and music industry mogul who launched the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti, has died at the age of 54, according to the Hollywood Reporter and sources close to the situation.