Irv Gotti To Drop The "Murder" From Murder Inc.
 

Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo is in the process of changing the name of his label Murder Inc. to The Inc. in an attempt to shed negative connotations surrounding the older moniker.

"I am changing the name so people can just try and focus on our music and not our name," Lorenzo told AllHipHop.com. "I've been making hits now for close to ten years in this game. All everyone seems to want to focus on is the word 'murder.'"

A press conference is scheduled in the near future to announce the name change. On that day, Lorenzo intends to announce that he will no longer use the name "Gotti."

Lorenzo named himself after New York mob boss, John Gotti. Similar to the original Gotti, Lorenzo is under scrutiny from the United States government in a drug and money laundering case.

"I feel it's a good idea," Def Jam's Founder, Russell Simmons, added. "They have always made music that focuses on love, so it makes sense to get rid of the word 'Murder,' it's just too negative."

Def Jam, the label that Simmons founded, distributes records by The Inc., whose roster includes multi-platinum artists Ashanti and Ja Rule.

The government is probing whether or not Lorenzo aided Queen's drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff in laundering drug proceeds through the record label.

Lorezno vehemently denies the charges and saying that McGriff is merely a friend that he attempted to help turn his life around.

"Hopefully people will focus on me and my artist's talents, which is making great records and entertaining fans," he said.

The label recently dropped Ja Rule's Blood In My Eye, which landed at number 6 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart. Ashanti s set to drop a Christmas album as well

uhhhm, whatever?

Camarac whateva mutha fucka

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What the fuck.

i usually dont gossip in HL but dont hate on camarac for keeping us updated on hip hop newz........he brung us sum good info lately....and hating murder inc. now is old.....so if u got sumthng negative to say about the rec. label, keep it to urself

^ Exactly.
Why the fuck you kids bitching about me posting up the threads? Thats what this forums for. If you dont like them - dont click them.

Simple.

I was just tryna help the site out.

^ word..... ps. murda inc sucks

^word p.s. they cant change it to just the Inc cause the name is already taken, they were on hot or some radio station to get ideas for new names, got clowned HARD, 1luv.

Yo that would be fuckin gay if they made it to jus' THA Inc. Irv should jus' leave Murda makes it sound better anywayz

I copyrighted "The" already.

yo murder inc is horrible to me.... and ashanti has man sideburns... lmao

^That Has What Everyone Has Been Saying...

But Murder Inc, The Inc...

Same To Me...
I Think That The Inc Sounds Better...

murder inc sucks.........................

Lol, why everyone hatin on ja??? 50 came out wid tha beef now everyone hatin, but y'all now back in '99 & '00 you was bumpin rule 3:36 shit lol.
~1~

^ and you would know that based on what evidence? 99% of what ja rule has recorded is garbage.

Yeah i agree wit Eye Q ever since 50 came out wit this beef an' shit everybody be hatin on JA......if 50 wasn't around there wouldn't be threads like this.....i aint hatin on 50 but eva since he came out there was this sudden "Ja is a fag" and shit jus' cause he was singin love songs wit girls an' shit NOBODY talked about this till 50 came out and some peeps need to admit it......I bet somebody below me gonna post " I HATED JA BEFORE %) CAME OUT"

We've always hated Ja. We hated Ja before 50 got shot. After 50 will die. Always.

w00t.

Go Die

Everybody has always hated on Ja...But there wasnt always so much hate as there is now....50 cent and eminem have made many disses to Ja...than Ja came out wit a diss against em and fuckin killed em wit that line "ya moms a crackhead, kims a slut, so whats halie gonna be when she grows up"...all i know is i'd cop a ja rule album rather than a 50 cent one...50 cent is garbage....somebody needs ta tell him that gangsta is over and we have been informed that he was shiot 9 times...

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*logs off*
all they say in murder inc songs is "its murda"

what difference does it make changing thier name 2 ''the inc'' they have established an image now and thats gonna stick with em and ja's probably still gonna be singin ''its murda'' in his tracks anyways

*hates fiftys underground supposedly "good stuff"*

they should change their name to *-------* so then....people could focus less on their name and more on their music....

^ Made a good point actually.

I dont care whether the name changes coz I aint a muder inc fan, I'm more shady/aftermath.
Ja has somethin stuck in his throat and Ashanti's really a man in drag.
Anyway I honestly havnt liked Ja ever and probably never will but 50 is startin to get repetative.

But the best thing bout this thread has got to be Mike's avatar. Mr Bean rules over everybody

yo murda isn't good nomo they a bunch of wanksta's hit me up if u wanna battle

hey asswhole sorry to break it to you, but if you studied your rap you'd kno JA beefed wit 50 in a club first...
now shut the fuck up go read the source or 'xxl' cuz 50 and em said its hard turn on ur commerical rap station, and shtu the fuck up
thanks

tghats a good move but now they sound soft

murder inc is so lame....they are droppin the name so they aren't clowned on for thinking they are gangster when their not

Murder Inc is actually gangsta...
Aftermath and Gunit is too, but read some reviews or interviews, Eminem hired 2 ex C.I.A agents to guard him from Murder... so dotn fuck around Ja may not be able to rap but he can make a gun clap

Oh No! What new word will Ja Rule scream in all of his songs now? The suspense is killing me!



I actually see two options for Ja at this point.....
1. He finds a new word to scream
2. He just replaces "It's murdaaaaaaaa" with a long drawn out silence.

^^That is not being hard. Anyone can pull a fucking trigger of a gun. I sometimes wonder what goes thru some people's rationale before they pull stupid shit.....Yes, yes, they have humiliated me and proved that they are intelligently better than me, so instead of trying to elevate and write a more thought provoking comeback at them, I'll just kill them. They called my mom a stupid bitch. Kill them. Then I'll get more record sales for proving that I'm hard.

^ Truth.

he can change it to whatever he want i still wont buy shit

is nas really in murder inc, cause his godson album did not have any murder in credit

i'd only buy a murder album if it was by nas

my bad i wouldnt buy it, THANK GOD FOR KAZAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your fucking gay.

Yes - nas signedf to murder Inc but no - thats as far as it went. And ja's latest album is actually decent ive been told so fuck you .. dont believe all the bullshit hype you hear from shady records .. they have 50 cent and Obie signed there .. that dosent exactly make them dope = /

I think the Inc. is trying to be death row of 2000's ya know, but tupac = ja rule... they need to try harder...lol
Cadalac tah is so so but not that good...
Santana is the best out of them....

but as far as the name change, they should always screaming, I-N-C

that dont scream I-N-C on the 'After the reign' track , they only sing 'Murder' .. maybe this was Ja's bid to get him respect back as ive heard his newer album is more in touch with how he was when he started out ..