Rico Wade — a high Atlanta-based producer and former collaborator with OutKast and TLC — has died … in response to rap legend Killer Mike.
Killer Mike shared a pair pics of the Atlanta rap sport mainstay to his Instagram early Saturday morning … sending prayers to Wade’s household and thanking him for bringing him into musical collective The Dungeon Family again within the day.
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Mike did not present a explanation for loss of life … and, fellow hip hop legends — like CeeLo Green and Three 6 Mafia — shared their condolences on the put up.
Wade co-founded Organized Noize — a manufacturing trio alongside Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown — and produced a few of the greatest data in music historical past.
Among them … OutKast’s “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik,” TLC’s “Waterfalls,” Ludacris‘ “Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!)” — they usually contributed to the soundtrack of the 1996 movie “Set It Off” starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah.
Organized Noize additionally began the music collective The Dungeon Family … giving many artists like Killer Mike, CeeLo Green and Big Boi the chance to place their music out vast.
In truth, some rappers like Big Boi say Rico was so influential, there could be no OutKast with out them … a monumental growth in rap.
Wade was 52.
RIP