{"id":224628,"date":"2026-03-11T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=224628"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:32:16","slug":"big-boi-shares-a-tribute-to-rico-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/big-boi-shares-a-tribute-to-rico-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boi shares a tribute to Rico Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJGBY944hvA?si=iENk819_jrYHUUuS\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This short video is dedicated to the legendary <strong>Rico Wade<\/strong>, co-founder of the <strong>Dungeon Famil<\/strong>y collective and 1\/3 of legendary Atlanta production team <strong>Organized Noize<\/strong>. An architect of Atlanta\u2019s music scene, Wade was instrumental in cultivating the signature sound of the \u201cDirty South.\u201d The video was shared by <strong>Big Boi<\/strong>, one half of the iconic Atlanta group,<strong> Outkast<\/strong>. Rico Wade unfortunately passed away in April of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest in Peace, Rico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"224629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/big-boi-shares-a-tribute-to-rico-wade\/rico-wade-tribute-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rico Wade tribute thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-540x304.avif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224629\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail.avif 1920w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rico-Wade-tribute-thumbnail.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff This short video is dedicated to the legendary Rico Wade, co-founder of the Dungeon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Wr2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224630,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224628\/revisions\/224630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}