Remembering Rico Wade: How the legendary producer influenced Atlanta, Southern hip-hop, and pop music

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Remembering Rico Wade: How the legendary producer influenced Atlanta, Southern hip-hop, and pop music

Rico Wade in 2019Photograph by Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Revolt Even with the knowledge that none of us will live forever, Rico Wade’s untimely passing at age 52 is still hitting hard days after the April 12 announcement. As the cornerstone of the game-changing production trio Organized Noize, formed in his teens with Ray “Yoda” Murray and Patrick “Sleepy” Brown, and the de facto general of the Dungeon Family—the music collective that incl…