Here Are The Photos From HIP HOP GREAT Rico Wade’s Funeral!!

Hip Hop legend Rico Wade was laid to rest yesterday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia yesterday, and tons of folks from the entertainment world were in attendance.

Here are some photo from the star studded home going.

Rico Wade (February 26, 1972 – April 18, 2024) was an American songwriter and record producer from East Point, Georgia. He is one-third of the successful Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for acts such as OutKast, Goodie Mob, and TLC. TLC’s “Waterfalls”, penned by Wade and Organized Noize’s Sleepy Brown and Ray Murray.

Among the hit records Rico and Organized Noize have worked on include TLC’s “Waterfalls”, En Vogue’s “Don’t Let Go (Love)”, and Ludacris’ “Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!)”. They are most notable for producing a large amount of material for Outkast (including all of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and “So Fresh, So Clean” from Stankonia) and Goodie Mob (including all of Soul Food and “They Don’t Dance No Mo” from Still Standing).

Both groups are part of Organized Noize’s Dungeon Family collective, which also includes Slimm Cutta Calhoun and Joi, among others. The “Dungeon” would be the name given to recording studio which was located in the basement of Organized Noize member Rico Wade’s mother. The “Dungeon” studio, which attracted numerous aspiring musicians and artists, even made Wade a key architect of Atlanta hip hop.

In an interview with Billboard, Big Boi of Outkast explained that Organized Noize helped them early on in the music business, saying, “They were our big brothers, and they did a production deal with LaFace Records. They were the ones that gave us our first shot and we been doing music with them since the beginning.

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