“The Dungeon Family now owns the Dungeon.” Big Boi announced on Instagram he has bought the studio in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood where he and Andre “3000” Benjamin got their start as OutKast.
The Dungeon was the recording space for Organized Noize, the hip-hop production team behind OutKast and Goodie Mob. It was the basement in the home of Organized Noize founder Rico Wade’s mother.
“It was an unfinished basement with red clay dirt floors, creaky stairs, lots of weed, speakers and beat machines. The Dungeon Family would spend hours hanging out down there, coming up with rhymes, putting beats together, eating, drinking, smoking and sleeping,”.
Big Boi Twitter a peek at the Dungeon, showing the steps where he tells them he wrote “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik,” OutKast’s 1994 debut album.
Deep in the Dungeon 👑 pic.twitter.com/IFLLONpSzp
— Big Boi (@BigBoi) January 16, 2019
Here’s a 1994 Yo! MTV Raps interview with Outkast from this same home. What a historic accomplishment and win for the Dungeon.
