Home Songwriter and record producer Rico Wade poses for photos while at work in ‘The Dungeon’ on location in Atlanta, Georgia on April 1, 2001. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Songwriter and record producer Rico Wade poses for photos while at work in 'The Dungeon' on location in Atlanta, Georgia on April 1, 2001. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Songwriter and record producer Rico Wade poses for photos while at work in ‘The Dungeon’ on location in Atlanta, Georgia on April 1, 2001. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Songwriter and record producer Rico Wade poses for photos while at work in ‘The Dungeon’ on location in Atlanta, Georgia on April 1, 2001. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Big Boi, Rico Wade and Janelle Monae at an event in Atlanta, Ga. in 2006. Credit: Sandra Rose/Sandrarose.com