The Houston-based Geto Boys was a trio consisting of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D that launched in the late 1980s. at least they will have residual income from those things." He said he was working on new music because, "I notice when most celebrities pass, they really don't have nothing set up for their children and everything's in disarray so I figure, old music will sell but if I have new music for them. "I died and came back already on Jso I know what it's like on the other side," he said. In an interview with TMZ, Bushwick Bill said he wasn't afraid of dying, referencing one of his songs, "Ever So Clear," from his 1992 solo album, where he talks about shooting himself in the head and losing an eye when he was high on drugs. He had been planning to go on tour around the time he was hospitalized. His Dallas-based business manager, Pete Marrero, said the rapper was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in February. The publicist says the rapper, whose legal name is Richard Shaw, was surrounded by family when he died.
told The Associated Press that the rapper died Sunday at 9:35 p.m., local time, at a Colorado hospital. They remain a widely acknowledged influence on both Southern rap and particularly the horrorcore genre.Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rapper who with the Geto Boys helped put the South's stamp on rap with hits like "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" and "Six Feet Deep," died on Sunday at the age of 52, according to his publicist.ĭawn P. While their success dropped off in the ensuing years, the group continued to release albums throughout the 1990s, dropping a final collection, “The Foundation,” in 2005. The album featured the group’s best-known song, “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.” Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rapper who with the Geto Boys helped put the South’s stamp on rap with hits like Mind Playing Tricks On Me and Six Feet Deep, died on Sunday, June 9, at the age of 52, according to his publicist. The group moved on to Priority Records and released its biggest album in 1991, “We Can’t Be Stopped” - the cover of which featured a photo of the group’s Willie D and Scarface alongside Bill, on a hospital gurney, after the shooting incident.
The group released a pair of independent albums but their self-titled major label debut, released on Rick Rubin’s Def American Records, caused an uproar due to their ultra-violent lyrics that led the label to change its distribution from Geffen Records to Warner Bros. He joined the Geto Boys in 1986, after performing as the group’s dancer. The Jamaica-born rapper born with dwarfism and first performed under the moniker Little Billy. When revealing his illness earlier this year, Bill told TMZ, “I figure keeping it myself is not really helping nobody, and I’m not really afraid of dying because if anyone knows anything about me from ‘Ever So Clear,’ I died and came back already in June 1991, so I know what it’s like on the other side,” the rapper added, referring to an incident where he accidentally shot himself in the eye while tussling with his girlfriend over a gun. However, that same rep confirmed that he died at 9:35 p.m. Reports that the rapper had died began circulating early Sunday after fellow Geto Boy Scarface wrote in a pair of Instagram posts “RIP Bushwick Bill “You will be missed big fella.” However, Bill’s rep insisted to TMZ that he had not died, as did his sister in an Instagram post. The rapper, who was born Richard Shaw, revealed last month that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in February. Bushwick Bill, a member of the veteran Houston rap trio Geto Boys, has died at the age of 52, his rep confirmed.
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