Dungeon Household co-founder Rico Wade’s legacy is ready to stay on by means of a brand new program introduced by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens throughout the legendary producer’s funeral.
On Friday (April 27), Atlanta luminaries gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church for Wade’s funeral service. Throughout the emotional star-studded ceremony, Dickens introduced the launch of the Rico Wade Music Govt Coaching Program, a brand new initiative by the Metropolis Of Atlanta’s Workplace of Movie, Leisure and Nightlife.
In keeping with the mayor, this system will function a conduit permitting aspiring music enterprise professionals to study from skilled instructors and established “music executives like the five hundred hundred or so gathered on this room,” Dickens quipped from the church’s podium.
Whereas the quantity was an intentional exaggeration, Rico Wade’s funeral was attended by fairly a number of trade execs, together with LaFace Information co-founder L.A. Reid; Chris Hicks, Chief Innovation Officer of High quality Management Holdings; former Motown Information CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam; Catherine Brewton, Vice President of Artistic at BMI; Orlando McGhee, Head of City at ONErpm’; and Sylvia Rhone, chair and CEO of Epic Information.
Whereas he didn’t supply further particulars about this system, Mayor Dickens defined that the objective was to proceed Wade’s legacy of sharing data with any and everybody he would encounter.
“Rico left an indelible mark on music and tradition all over the world and for that, the South will at all times have one thing to say,” Dickens closed out his tackle to the group, echoing a assertion launched by his workplace following Wade’s loss of life.
Along with Dickens, Atlanta Metropolis Councilwoman Marci Overstreet was additionally available to ship a proclamation designating April 26 as Rico Wade Day in his hometown.
The 2 Atlanta officers weren’t the one politicians available, as former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed eulogized the producer, and Senator Raphael Warnock – who can also be the pastor at Ebenezer – presided over the service.
The mourners who gathered to pay their remaining respects to Wade have been a who’s who of Atlanta Hip Hop, together with each members of Outkast, all 4 members of Goodie Mobb, T.I., 2 Chainz, and extra.
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Rico Wade handed away on April 13 on the age of 52. A pioneer of Atlanta’s Hip Hop scene, he co-founded the Dungeon Household, collective of rappers and producers who have been thought-about pioneers of Southern Hip Hop. Consisting of the likes of OutKast, the Goodie Mob, and Killer Mike (as a part of the so-called “second era” of the Dungeon Household), the crew received its title from Wade’s recording studio, which was referred to as “The Dungeon,” which is the place a lot of the now-legendary data have been recorded.
Along with his manufacturing work on the Dungeon Household’s assortment of albums, the producer (actual title Rico Renard Wade) was additionally behind the boards for some super-smash R&B hits, together with En Vogue’s “Don’t Let Go (Love)” and TLC’s “Waterfalls.” He was one-third of the manufacturing collective Organized Noize, which additionally included Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown.
He’s survived by his spouse Debbie Wade, and his two kids from a earlier relationship, Rico Wade II and Ryder Wade.
