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Rico Wade, Producer With Atlanta’s Pioneering Organized Noize, Dead at 52
Rico Wade, a member of the pioneering Atlanta production team Organized Noize, has died at the age of 52.
Rico Wade, a member of the pioneering Atlanta production team Organized Noize that served as the auditory architects for the Dungeon Family collective — artists like OutKast, Goodie Mob, Killer Mike and many more — and helped craft Southern hip-hop’s sound, has died at the age of 52. Killer Mike, the Run the Jewels rapper who got his start with the Dungeon Family, paid tribute to Wade on social media, “I don’t have the words to express my deep and profound sense of loss. The collaboration continued through Big Boi’s solo albums, 2010’s Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty and 2012’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors.
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