While on Drink Champs with Nore, Murder Inc’s Irv Gotti talked about a lot of things that made headlines. The biggest was everything he said about his relationship with Ashanti.
He received a lot of criticism for how he handled himself during the interview with all things surrounding his former artist.
One of the things that kind of went unnoticed because of how much he brought up Ashanti was him talking about the time he lost $175k on basketball because of Gilbert Arenas. Irv wasn’t exactly sober so it didn’t really sound like the truth but turns out it is.
Music exec Irv Gotti is being called out by fans after recently speaking about his alleged previous romantic relationship with Ashanti.
The Murder Inc. Records co-founder joined N.O.R.E. for an upcoming episode of Drink Champs, where he discussed surprisingly finding out that Ashanti and Nelly were an item. According to Irv Gotti, born Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr., he was in love with his label artist at the time he discovered she became romantically involved with the Country Grammar rap star. However fans point out the 52-year-old producer was seemingly still married at the time of reference.
During the interview promo clip, Gotti began speaking on the “Foolish” singer, stating:
“I can get past you wanting to be with Nelly”.
To which N.O.R.E. laughed and quickly rebutted:
“Sounds like you didn’t get past that, just to be honest”.
Gotti paused before continuing:
“At the time it happens, any man….is hurt. The chick you, f*cking are in love with, is with this n*gga. You wanna know how I found out?”
The famed producer continued, revealing that an NBA game he happened to be watching suddenly pictured Nelly with Ashanti on his arm. He stated:
“Listen to this, it was God wanted me to find out….I was at home. NBA package, I like watching sports. ‘Oh my God what’s this commotion going on in stadium?! We just found out what the commotion is. Nelly has walked in with Ashanti’.”
Arenas recently appeared on VladTV to talk about the claim and says he remembers what happened. Gil apparently thought Irv and Ja Rule were at the game to see him but they were heckling him instead and then overheard that Irv needed him to score a certain amount of points to win a bet and he didn’t get them.
He then gloated about hurting Irv’s feelings and thought they’d come after him.
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