{"id":1391,"date":"2026-03-02T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/rico-wade-tribute-dungeon-family-4-life\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:42:14","slug":"rico-wade-tribute-dungeon-family-4-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/rico-wade-tribute-dungeon-family-4-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Rico Wade Tribute (Dungeon Family 4 Life)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rico Wade Tribute (Dungeon Family 4 Life)\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJGBY944hvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Description<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rico Wade Tribute (Dungeon Family 4 Life)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to the legendary Rico Wade, co-founder of the Dungeon Family collective and 1\/3 of legendary Atlanta production team Organized Noize. Rico wasn\u2019t just a producer \u2014 he was the architect of Atlanta hip hop, the gatekeeper of culture, and the mind that helped turn a regional scene global.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A pivotal architect in Atlanta\u2019s music scene, Wade was instrumental in cultivating the signature sound of the \u201cDirty South,\u201d seamlessly mixing the contemporary style of hip-hop with classic elements of soul, funk, and R&#038;B. A founding member of songwriting\/production team Organized Noize along with Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown, Wade helped pave the way for Atlanta to become the capital city of Southern hip-hop. Out of his home studio, The Dungeon, located in the basement of his mother\u2019s home in East Point, Georgia, Wade delivered a string of multi-platinum albums by artists like TLC, OutKast, Goodie Mob, EnVogue and many more. The musical collective spawned from Wade\u2019s studio, The Dungeon Family, included influential members like Andr\u00e9 3000, Big Boi, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, CeeLoo Green, Big Gipp, Janelle Mon\u00e1e, his cousin Future and many others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The breadth of Rico Wade\u2019s extensive, award-winning work and the core of all the music he was responsible for he felt was best exemplified in a quote Andr\u00e9 3000 famously expressed at the Source Awards on August 3, 1995, in New York City, when the rapper stepped up to the mic and said, \u201cThe South got something to say<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/rico-wade-tribute-dungeon-family-4-life\">Rico Wade Tribute (Dungeon Family 4 Life)<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\">Siccness Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Description \u00a0 Rico Wade Tribute (Dungeon Family 4 Life) \u00a0 \u00a0 Dedicated to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}