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Rico Wade, Key Outkast Producer and Member of Organized Noize, Dies at 52


Rico Wade, a member of the pioneering Atlanta production trio Organized Noize and a key Outkast collaborator, has died.

Rico Wade, a member of the pioneering Atlanta-based production trio Organized Noize and a key early Outkast collaborator, has died, according to an Instagram post by his close friend Killer Mike and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I don’t have the words to express my deep and profound sense of loss,” Killer Mike wrote. Front, L-R: Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi with Wade (second from left) and Atlanta music exec Shanti Das in 2016.

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