Irv Gotti’s cause of death has been revealed

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passed away on February 5. Tributes quickly followed – led by his label signees and longtime friends Ashanti and Ja Rule – honouring the New York native.Now while on a 2Way podcast with Damon Dash, Irv’s brother Chris Gotti Lorenzo shared that the cause of his brother’s death was a “massive hemorrhagic stroke” while “he ate a bunch of Chinese food while playing poker.”It would have been his second stroke in six months, initially suffering from a minor one last August.

Both incidents were a result of Gotti’s battle with Type 1 Diabetes.A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom)“He was diagnosed [with diabetes] in his late 40’s,” Lorenzo said in the interview, “But Irv doesn’t go to the doctors – that’s why he was so late to be diagnosed.

When he finally did get a real physical and check-up, he didn’t believe it.”Lorenzo revealed that he and Irv’s father also had diabetes, originally he was diagnosed with Type 2 before it transformed into Type 1.

They saw how he “suffered in the last three years of his life,” so it became important for them both to “go [out] on their own terms.”“Diabetes is not what kills you, it’s always something else,” Lorenzo explained. “It’s what it does to the body that takes your life.