Organized Noize Rico Wade Producer For Outkast & TLC Dead At 52

Rico Wade a top Atlanta-based producer and former collaborator with OutKast and TLC has died Killer Mike shared a couple pics of the Atlanta rap game mainstay to his Instagram early Saturday morning sending prayers to Wade's family and thanking him for bringing him into musical collective The Dungeon Family back in the day. Wade co-founded Organized Noize a production trio alongside Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown and produced some of the biggest records in music history.Among them OutKast's "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik," TLC's "Waterfalls," Ludacris' "Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!)" and they contributed to the soundtrack of the 1996 film "Set It Off" starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah Organized Noize also started the music collective The Dungeon Family giving many artists like Killer Mike, CeeLo Green and Big Boi the opportunity to put their music out wide. 

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