And rule is still deeply destroyed losing his friend and a long time collaborator, Irv gotti.
The Hip-Hop Titan, better known as the Murder Inc. co-founder. Records, he died at the age of 54 on February 54. This was a monumental loss for the genre, especially for those who were so close to helping to build the music label that had strength in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.
Gotti was a force to consider at the time. The New York native was even the super Group hip-hop master who would have been formed by Jay Z, already Rule and DMX. It albumBut, never released. Instead, a new label came from Ashanti’s “baby” and a series of successes in the 2000’s.
Reflecting on the empire they built along with Murder Inc.
“I get excited when I start thinking -because the trip is all in the success story of anyone,” Rule said in an interview with 2025 jazz at the Gardens Music Festival. “The journey is what never (forget). You will forget some of the awards you win. You could, you know, forget -you have won them, but never forget those days and nights in the studio. “”
“I and IRV sitting on his MPV, drawing the world and how we go, you know, we do what we did basically. It is the most amazing thing in the world, but it was our journey. “”
Now that Gotti has transmitted, Rule maintains his legacy alive through actions such as taking the stage in Jazz in the gardens during DJ Cassidy’s passage, the live microphone! He establishes, making successes such as “Put it on me”, “Mesmerize” and “Livin ‘It Up”, and even joined Fat Joe to interpret “New York.”
Doing business moves out of music
In addition, it continues to expand its reach far beyond hip-hop, emphasizing the importance of having multiple income currents as an artist, such as his new brand of honey botanical whiskey, Amber & Opal.
“You have to have more than a flow of income. I learned that the difficult path. You can simply not put all the eggs in a basket,” said Rule. “So if you are not throwing yourself at the time, another is throwing yourself and, in hope, when you all come together, you are doing a good career. This is a matter of this. Having companies to keep others when they spend their periods of struggle or their transitional periods, or even when you have to pivot and do something different. Investing is a very important thing.”
