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20 Biggest Hot 100 Hits for Irv Gotti’s Murder Inc.: ‘Foolish’, ‘Always on Time’ & More
Billboard recaps the top 20 hits of Irv Gotti's Murder Inc., imprint. Ja Rule and Ashanti feature prominently, with "Foolish," "Mesmerize" and more.
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. At the turn of the millennium, Irv Gotti – who died Wednesday at age 54 – helped bring a new class of hip-hop and R&B acts to fame as the co-founder of Murder Inc. Records. Ashanti, too, became a powerhouse inside Murder Inc., thanks to her signature hooks across the imprint’s biggest hip-hop records that led to her own string of huge R&B crossover hits.
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