Atlanta hip-hop producer Rico Wade died Saturday at age 52.
Wade was part of the legendary production/songwriting group Organized Noize, along with Ray Murray and Patrick “Sleepy” Brown. The team is credited with creating the so-called “dirty south sound” that defined hip-hop in the early 1990s.
He was also a founding member of the Dungeon Family music collective, which included Atlanta music groups like OutKast and Goodie Mob. The collective was named after Wade’s mother’s East Point basement, where they recorded much of their early music.
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