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DJ Ready Red (Geto Boys) March 28, 1965 - Aug. 24, 2018

by Ashley Iasimone | August 25, 2018 | Billboard
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Houston rap group the Ghetto Boys (later spelled Geto Boys). Clockwise from top: DJ Ready Red, Prince Johnny C and Sire Jukebox pose for a portrait for their album 'You Ain't Nothing' in 1987 in New York City.

DJ Ready Red, early DJ and producer for the Geto Boys, has died after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 53.

Red (born Collins Leysath) passed away Friday (Aug. 24), according to the Geto Boys' Willie D, who posted a video on Instagram to share the sad news.

"He gave us our sound," Willie D said of Red, whom he called "the Musical Enforcer" and said was "responsible for most of the production of our early stuff and all of the sound on my first album, Controversy."

"To say that he was a pioneer would be an understatement. Red was before his time," added Willie D.

In 1986, Red became the first DJ and producer for the southern rap crew the Geto Boys, then know as the Ghetto Boys. He left the group in 1991 when they were recording the album We Can't Be Stopped. As Willie D pointed out, he also produced the rapper's first solo album, released in 1989.

The Geto Boys' Twitter account says funeral arrangements are pending.

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The Geto Boys l-r: Willie D, Bushwick Bill, D. J. Ready Red and Scarface

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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2016 interview

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #2 posted 08/28/18 8:32pm

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Be Down - 0:00

My Musician - 4:36

Why Do We Live This Way - 9:09 (Red raps on this song)

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #3 posted 08/30/18 10:52am

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R.I.P.

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Ready Red/comin' at you/holding my ground like a mf'ing statue

-Do It Like A G.O.

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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