Swizz Beatz honored his grandmother, Sandra Dean, revealing she was the one who got here up with the enduring Ruff Ryders identify.

Swizz Beatz honored his grandmother’s legacy in a tribute put up, revealing she got here up with the identify for the legendary Hip-Hop crew Ruff Ryders.

On Tuesday (August 26), the Grammy-winning producer posted a photograph of his grandmother, Sandra Dean, sitting confidently on an enormous bike alongside his uncle Joaquin “Waah” Dean, co-founder of Ruff Ryders Entertainment.

The picture, taken Sunday (August 24), was paired with a caption that gave credit score the place it was lengthy overdue.

“My grandmother is the one who named Ruff Ryders and she’s still riding high in these NY streets Ahumduallah. DEAN FAMILY 4 LIFE,” Swizz wrote. He added, “She still outside.”

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Swizz Beatz’s Uncle Reveals Origin Of Ruff Ryders Name

The Ruff Ryders model, which launched in 1988 as an artist administration firm, later turned a powerhouse label and life-style motion, house to acts like DMX, Eve, The LOX and Swizz himself.

But the identify? That got here straight from Sandra Dean’s lounge.

In a 2017 interview, Waah Dean recalled the second the identify was born. “I was at my mother’s house and I said to her, ‘This Special Effects name don’t really work for me, I don’t really feel this name. Let’s find a name that makes sense.’ And then I was watching a Black cowboy movie at the foot of her bed.”

He continued, “I looked at my mother and I said, ‘there it is. Look at us Ruff Riders.’ And then my mother said ‘ride or die.’ I said ‘that’s what we’re going to do. And that’s how that was discovered.’”

Sandra Dean, mom to Waah and grandmother to Swizz, spoke in a 2022 interview in regards to the household’s musical roots and the way her youngsters’s ardour for sound was inherited.

“They all like music because I like music and their father likes music, so I think they got it from us and they just took it to another level,” she stated. “Then the three of them got together and made history. You can see where the music is, and it’s in their heart.”

Waah co-founded Ruff Ryders Entertainment along with his siblings Darrin “Dee” Dean and Chivon Dean. The model would come to outline an period of late ’90s and early 2000s Hip-Hop.

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