Organized Noize

Organized Noize is an Atlanta , Georgia-based production team that formed in the early 1990s. It consists of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Patrick "Sleepy" Brown , who are members of the hip-hop collective Dungeon Family and produce for its other members. Her most significant achievement is to have introduced OutKast , Goodie Mob and TLC to the founder of LaFace Records and former CEO of Arista Records L. A. Reid and thus established their later careers.

Organized Noize came in 25th in a vote of About.com's “Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers”.

Own projects

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Singles

Set It Off (with Queen Latifah & Andrea Martin)   DE 56 05/26/1997 (9 weeks)

With the spoken word artist Big Rube and the singer Espraronza, Organized Noize founded the group “Society of Soul” in the mid-1990s, which combined rap , soul and funk . Their only album Brainchild , on which George Clinton and T-Boz from TLC can be heard, were released in 1995. Organized Noize released the title song of the film Set It Off featuring Andrea Martin and Queen Latifah as a single one year later . In 1998 the album The Vinyl Room of the Sleepy Brown project "Sleepy's Theme" was released, as on Brainchild Brown was the lead singer . Both albums were commercial flops, but received mostly positive reviews. Brown made several attempts to release a solo album in the episode, but this lasted until 2006 Mr. Brown was released. The single Margarita was recorded with rappers Big Boi and Pharrell and produced by The Neptunes .

Productions

Organized Noize gained fame through the production of the debut albums by OutKast and Goodie Mob, as well as through the single Waterfalls (No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ) by TLC. As a result, they produced hits for En Vogue ( Don't Let Go (Love) , 2nd place), Nivea ( Don't Mess with the Radio , 90th place) and Ludacris ( Saturday (Oooh Oooh) , 22nd place) . They also wrote two songs for Curtis Mayfield's last album . In 2006 they produced the score for the remake of the television series Miami Vice .

Outside of the Dungeon Family, Organized Noize have produced for:

• Kurupt
• Bubba Sparxxx
• Xscape
• UGK
• Ludacris
• brandy
• Since BackWudz
• TLC
• YoungBloodZ
• En Vogue
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• The DOC
• Nivea
• Truth hurts
• Hip-Hop For Respect (including Shyheim , Rah Digga , Mos Def , Cappadonna and Talib Kweli )
• Macy Gray
• Queen Latifah
• Curtis Mayfield
• Billy Lawrence
• Roots Manuva
• Andrea Martin

Web links

• Organized Noize on myspace.com
• Organized Noize at Allmusic (English)
• Sleepy Brown at laut.de

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1. ↑ allmusic.com : Sleepy Brown's biography
2. ↑ "Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers"
3. ↑ Chart sources: DE
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