Irv Gotti: “I’m Dropping Ashanti”

Irv Gotti says he’s dropping Ashanti from the Murder INC label.  His reasons for doing so??

Notorious

Voletta Wallace posed for pictures with everyone who showed support for the premiere of her son’s (Christopher Wallace) biopic. She and Jigga took a very special picture together. Jay has continued to keep Biggie’s name alive in all of his music. How many of you will be going to see the movie? Oh by the way when you continue reading to see more pics there is a picture of a girl kissing Voletta Wallace and that is B.I.G.’s daughter.

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Launch Party

T.I. celebrated the launch of his clothing line Akoo with a launch party in NYC Thursday night. Irv Gotti, who hasn’t been on the radar as of late, popped in to celebrate with T.I. How many of you will be copping Akoo gear?

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Lessons In Love

Singer Lloyd and Teyana Taylor were seen at his album release party for “Lessons in Love” getting pretty cozy while donning smiles in each other’s faces. Irv Gotti also attended the party being that Lloyd is still signed to Murder Inc. Are you feeling Teyana Taylor’s style yet?

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Vibe Magazine party for Jeezy

Jeezy celebrated his first VIBE Magazine cover debut last night in NY at the Gansevoort Hotel with a few industry cats. Nas, DJ Clue, Terrence J, Jermaine Dupri, Sanaa Lathan’s man Adewale Ogunleye, Swizz, Fab, Irv Gotti, and Queen Penn all came out to show the snow man some love.

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Her thoughts on Irv and Ja

Ashanti attended the “Ultimate Prom” hosted by Hearst Magazines and Universal Motown on Friday at the Grand Hyatt in NY. Ashanti gets sexier and sexier with every passing event. Ashanti’s long awaited album “The Declaration” hits stores Tuesday. Who’s copping it?

Here are excerpts from her interesting interview with S2S Magazine:

Jamie: People are saying Irv was saying you were trying to deny him while Murder Inc. dealt with the FBI investigation?

Ashanti: [laughs] You know what? It’s just really weird because it was a very bad time. It was a very upsetting time for everyone—all the artists signed to Murder Inc. And going through the trial was tough on everyone’s personal life, on everyone’s career. You know, and it’s very—you saw me at the trial—

Jamie: You were there?!

Jay and Beyonce’s swanky affair at the 40/40

Jay-Z who had his black James Bond swagger pumping, threw a private party at his New York 40/40 last night in which more than a few folk came out to enjoy with he and Beyonce. Joy Bryant, Irv Gotti who seemed to be having some sort of bodily reaction in the pic (Number 2 anyone?), Farnsworth Bentley, Kendu, Fab who throws up the same peace sign in every photo, NBA rookie Kevin Durant, Pepa and her manish swag, and Alex Rodriguez all enjoyed the party.

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Mya, Irv Gotti, and Jada attend Jordan’s All-American Classic

Mya, Irv Gotti, and Jada attended Michael Jordan’s All-American Classic at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. Mya is looking pretty good. Now her career that’s a whole other algebraic equation right there. Figuring out what to do in order to shock it back to life Is like a monkey riding a 10-Speed while learning ancient Hebrew.

9th Annual TJ Martell Family Day

Jay-Z, Irv Gotti, Nick Cannon, Kevin Liles, Cheri Dennis, Trey Songz, Angie Martinez, Terrence, Rocsi, Nia Long, and others came out to the ‘9th Annual TJ Martell Family Day’.  Jay had his scarf swag in full effect.

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Superhead has a record deal

Eddie Murphy has started his own record label called Murphy Entertainment and his first artist that he signed is Karrine Superhead Steffans. It is reported that Karrine will release her first album in March but can be heard in advance freestyling on King Magazine’s annual mix tape available next month.

Trust me you are not the only one’s reading this thinking to yourself “Is this serious?” And what the hell is wrong with Eddie Murphy? Well we guess since his singing career failed more times than a Jesse Jackson Presidential run, he figured he would try and live vicariously through SuperHo Superhead.  Well in other news find out what Irv Gotti thinks about Superhead…..