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Hold on. Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. You're all finished or y'all's done? Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Shalomaine the guy. We are the breakfast club. Laurel of Rosa is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We got Chris Gotti. Welcome to me, man. Thank you for having me, man. Thank you.

Good to see you, brother.

How you doing, brother? How's everything? Man, I'm blessed, you know, just taking it one day at the time from everything, you know, but everything's going great. Got a lot of positive stuff happening and that's why I'm here. If you don't mind, I want to go back a little bit for people that don't know who Chris Gotti is.

Of course, Irv Gotti's brother. Yes. Irv Gotti's big brother. Yes. For Queens, New York, Highless. And you guys been in the industry for a while and you guys, both of y'all, founded Murder Inc. Yeah, yeah. Most people only hear Irv when thinking about murder ink, but you were kind of the silent guy behind everything.

So talk about how... it murder ink. Yeah, yeah. Most people only hear Irv when thinking about murder ink, but you were kind of the silent guy behind everything.

So talk about how murder ink or the ink was founded.

It's murder ink.

We hated that we had to change that name.

That was Russell Simmons and Leo that,

and it came to us and Ben Chavis and said,

put murder to bed because we was down with the feds and everything.

So Murder Inc. was founded because Irv wanted to be the biggest producer in the world.

I helped make them that.

Finding producers and we built out his production company called Top Dog Productions and we just started making hit after hit after hit for multiple artists.

Irv didn't say, I'm going to start Murder Inc.

See, this is the misconception of most people don't realize that they thought Irv came up with like,

I'm going to start a record label.

He didn't start a label.

He just wanted to be the biggest producer in the game. And that's what

happened. And because that happened, Tom Metola, Dave McPherson, over his sonny said, we want

to give you a record deal. They told us they wanted to buy four beats. At the time, we

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