Certain people have been so quick to write him off as dead so they can capitalize off it.” His publicist has confirmed he died later that evening. Geto Boys mp3 Geto Boys - My Mind Playin Tricks on Me, Geto Boys - Still, Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta, Geto Boys - Bring It On, Geto Boys. He needs your continued prayers and support. Bill is a founding member of Houston rap group the Geto Boys. I know what it’s like on the other side.”Ī Geto Boys reunion tour had been announced earlier this year, but was cancelled in late May.īill’s death was reported prematurely, with his son writing on Instagram on Sunday: “My dad IS NOT dead, he’s still alive and fighting for his life. I thought I was dreaming, then I saw people in front of me pushing the door closed and I was like, ‘Yo!’” Following his cancer diagnosis this year, he said: “It’s not like I’m afraid of dying, because … I died and came back already, in June 1991.
Bushwick Bill passed away peacefully today at 9:35 p.
He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a dancer in 1986 as Little Billy. Bushwick Bill, co-founding member of the legendary rap trio Geto Boys, has died at 52. Richard William Stephen Shaw (Decem June 9, 2019), better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, or Logan Cirrone was a Jamaican-American rapper and record producer. He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a. Geto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill dies of cancer at 52. “I looked both ways and I saw frozen people to the left and frozen people to the right. Richard William Stephen Shaw (Decem June 9, 2019), better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, or Logan Cirrone was a Jamaican-American rapper and record producer. Bushwick Bill (Richard Stephen Shaw) was an American-Jamaican rapper best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a dancer in 1986 as Little Billy. “My toe was tagged and they were pushing me in the drawer,” he recalled in a 2014 interview. 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. He was pronounced dead, but later regained consciousness while in the hospital morgue. In 1991, Bill lost an eye after accidentally shooting himself in an argument with his girlfriend. Geto Boys had their biggest chart success in 1996 with the album The Resurrection, which reached No 6 in the US charts, while in 1999, they earned a new audience through prominent use of their songs in the cult film comedy Office Space.
The Jamaica-born rapper was widely reported to have died earlier Sunday after a bandmate wrote a post on Instagram suggesting so, but his publicist had said Sunday afternoon that those reports were premature.Bushwick Bill performing in Chicago in 1992. The song was featured in Mike Judge's 1999 workplace satire "Office Space." On another of the group's tracks, "Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta," he rapped about being a smart gangster who was positioning himself for success and longevity rather than a violent early death. Later, he would compare himself to the horror character Chucky, even writing a song about it. Their gritty verses punctuated by tales of violence, misogyny and hustling made them platinum sensations and showed that rap had strength outside the strongholds of New York, where it got its start, and later Los Angeles.īushwick Bill was the group's most explosive member, and played up his real-life chaos: The cover of the Geto Boys "We Can't Be Stopped" features him on a gurney with a garish eye wound. The Houston-based Geto Boys was a trio consisting of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D that launched in the late 1980s.
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