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How Rapper Bushwick Bill Lost His Eye
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published: 10 Dec 2023
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Bushwick Bill - Ever So Clear
Little Big Man ©1992 Rap-A-Lot Records
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Willie D Tells the Story Behind Bushwick Bill Getting Shot, Infamous Album Cover
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published: 25 Nov 2020
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Willie D Didn't Attend Bushwick Bill's Funeral: We Didn't Like One Another (Part 12)
Part 13: https://youtu.be/it_dAHiR3Qw
Part 11: https://youtu.be/C5vJxMkI8KA
Part 1: https://youtu.be/xZ-YgK-aYUA
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Willie D explained to VladTV why he didn't plan to go to Bushwick Bill's funeral, explaining that they didn't like one another and he feels like it would bring negative energy. Willie explained that he didn't go to Ready Red's funeral because of their falling out after Ready Red was mad he wasn't able to be back in the Ghetto Boys after walking away.
published: 12 Jul 2019
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Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Official Video) [Explicit]
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Video) from the album 'We Can't Be Stopped' (1991)
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Bushwick Bill - Ever So Clear (R.I.P.) 12/8/66 - 6/9/19
Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill. 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. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.
Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a merchant marine, and his mother was a maid. Shaw was born with dwarfism and was listed as 3 feet 8 inches tall.
Shaw got his start in the music industry in 1986 as a member of the Geto Boys, where he performed as a dancer known as Little Billy. He later transitioned to rapping, and was featured on the Geto Bo...
published: 11 Jun 2019
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Wha Cha Gonna Do
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Wha Cha Gonna Do · Bushwick Bill
Phantom of the Rapra
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Writer, Composer: Bryaan Ross
Writer, Composer: John Bido
Writer, Composer: Mike Dean
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published: 23 Jan 2017
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Chuckwick
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Chuckwick · Bushwick Bill
Little Big Man
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published: 17 Jul 2018
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Nardwuar vs. Bushwick Bill
Nardwuar interviews Bushwick Bill at SXSW 2014 in Austin, Texas! http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar
published: 28 Mar 2014
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Celebrity Underrated - The Bushwick Bill Story (Geto Boys)
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published: 09 Nov 2023
5:28
How Rapper Bushwick Bill Lost His Eye
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5:31
Bushwick Bill - Ever So Clear
Little Big Man ©1992 Rap-A-Lot Records
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- views: 381800
6:37
Willie D Tells the Story Behind Bushwick Bill Getting Shot, Infamous Album Cover
#1570 w/Willie D & Mike Judge:
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- published: 25 Nov 2020
- views: 396837
9:35
Willie D Didn't Attend Bushwick Bill's Funeral: We Didn't Like One Another (Part 12)
Part 13: https://youtu.be/it_dAHiR3Qw
Part 11: https://youtu.be/C5vJxMkI8KA
Part 1: https://youtu.be/xZ-YgK-aYUA
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Willie D explained to VladTV why he didn't ...
Part 13: https://youtu.be/it_dAHiR3Qw
Part 11: https://youtu.be/C5vJxMkI8KA
Part 1: https://youtu.be/xZ-YgK-aYUA
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Willie D explained to VladTV why he didn't plan to go to Bushwick Bill's funeral, explaining that they didn't like one another and he feels like it would bring negative energy. Willie explained that he didn't go to Ready Red's funeral because of their falling out after Ready Red was mad he wasn't able to be back in the Ghetto Boys after walking away.
https://wn.com/Willie_D_Didn't_Attend_Bushwick_Bill's_Funeral_We_Didn't_Like_One_Another_(Part_12)
Part 13: https://youtu.be/it_dAHiR3Qw
Part 11: https://youtu.be/C5vJxMkI8KA
Part 1: https://youtu.be/xZ-YgK-aYUA
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Willie D explained to VladTV why he didn't plan to go to Bushwick Bill's funeral, explaining that they didn't like one another and he feels like it would bring negative energy. Willie explained that he didn't go to Ready Red's funeral because of their falling out after Ready Red was mad he wasn't able to be back in the Ghetto Boys after walking away.
- published: 12 Jul 2019
- views: 1063096
4:59
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Official Video) [Explicit]
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Video) from the album 'We Can't Be Stopped' (1991)
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Lyrics:
I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles
Oh that sh*it is on?
Let me drop some sh*it like this here, real smooth
At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned
Four walls just staring at a n*gga
I'm paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger
My mother's always stressin' I ain't living right
But I ain't goin' out without a fight
See, every time my eyes close
I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose
It's somebody watching the Ak'
But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back
I can see him when I'm deep in the covers
When I awake I don't see the motherf*cker
He owns a black hat like I own
A black suit and a cane like my own
Some might say take a chill, B
But f*ck that sh*it, there's a n*gga trying to kill me
I'm popping in the clip when the wind blows
Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window
Investigating the joint for traps
Checking my telephone for taps
I'm staring at the woman on the corner
It's f*cked up when your mind's playing tricks on ya
I make big money
I drive big cars
Everybody know me
It's like I'm a movie star
But late at night something ain't right
I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's headlights
Is it that fool that I ran off the block
Or is it that n*gga last week that I shot
Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars
Thought he had caine but it was Gold Medal flour
Reached under my seat, grabbed my popper for the suckers
Ain't no use to me lying
I was scareder than a motherf*cker
Hooked a left into Popeye's and bailed out quick
If it's going down let's get this sh*it over with
Here they come just like I figured
I got my hand on the motherf*cking trigger
What I saw'll make your ass start giggling
Three blind, crippled and crazy senior citizens
I live by the sword
I take my boys everywhere I go because I'm paranoid
I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners
My mind is playing tricks on me
Day by day it's more impossible to cope
I feel like I'm the one that's doing dope
Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous
Every Sunday morning I'm in service
Praying for forgiveness
And trying to find an exit out the business
I know the Lord is lookin' at me
But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy
I often drift when I drive
Having fatal thoughts of suicide
Bang and get it over with
And then I'm worry-free, but that's bullsh*it
I got a little boy to look after
And if I died then my child would be a bastard
I had a woman down with me
But to me it seemed like she was down to get me
She helped me out in this sh*it
But to me she was just another b*tch
Now she's back with her mother
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Now I'm feeling lonely
My mind is playing tricks on me
This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating
Robbing little kids for bags
Till a old man got behind our a*s
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back and he was right before our face
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
So I swung and hit the n*gga in his mouth
He was going down we figured
But this wasn't no ordinary n*gga
He stood about six or seven feet
Now that's the n*gga I'd be seeing in my sleep
So we triple-teamed on him
Dropping them motherf*cking B's on him
The more I swung, the more blood flew
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as f*ck on the streets
My hands were all bloody, from punching on the concrete
God damn homey
My mind is playing tricks on me
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Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me (Video) from the album 'We Can't Be Stopped' (1991)
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Lyrics:
I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles
Oh that sh*it is on?
Let me drop some sh*it like this here, real smooth
At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned
Four walls just staring at a n*gga
I'm paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger
My mother's always stressin' I ain't living right
But I ain't goin' out without a fight
See, every time my eyes close
I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose
It's somebody watching the Ak'
But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back
I can see him when I'm deep in the covers
When I awake I don't see the motherf*cker
He owns a black hat like I own
A black suit and a cane like my own
Some might say take a chill, B
But f*ck that sh*it, there's a n*gga trying to kill me
I'm popping in the clip when the wind blows
Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window
Investigating the joint for traps
Checking my telephone for taps
I'm staring at the woman on the corner
It's f*cked up when your mind's playing tricks on ya
I make big money
I drive big cars
Everybody know me
It's like I'm a movie star
But late at night something ain't right
I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's headlights
Is it that fool that I ran off the block
Or is it that n*gga last week that I shot
Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars
Thought he had caine but it was Gold Medal flour
Reached under my seat, grabbed my popper for the suckers
Ain't no use to me lying
I was scareder than a motherf*cker
Hooked a left into Popeye's and bailed out quick
If it's going down let's get this sh*it over with
Here they come just like I figured
I got my hand on the motherf*cking trigger
What I saw'll make your ass start giggling
Three blind, crippled and crazy senior citizens
I live by the sword
I take my boys everywhere I go because I'm paranoid
I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners
My mind is playing tricks on me
Day by day it's more impossible to cope
I feel like I'm the one that's doing dope
Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous
Every Sunday morning I'm in service
Praying for forgiveness
And trying to find an exit out the business
I know the Lord is lookin' at me
But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy
I often drift when I drive
Having fatal thoughts of suicide
Bang and get it over with
And then I'm worry-free, but that's bullsh*it
I got a little boy to look after
And if I died then my child would be a bastard
I had a woman down with me
But to me it seemed like she was down to get me
She helped me out in this sh*it
But to me she was just another b*tch
Now she's back with her mother
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Now I'm feeling lonely
My mind is playing tricks on me
This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating
Robbing little kids for bags
Till a old man got behind our a*s
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back and he was right before our face
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
So I swung and hit the n*gga in his mouth
He was going down we figured
But this wasn't no ordinary n*gga
He stood about six or seven feet
Now that's the n*gga I'd be seeing in my sleep
So we triple-teamed on him
Dropping them motherf*cking B's on him
The more I swung, the more blood flew
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as f*ck on the streets
My hands were all bloody, from punching on the concrete
God damn homey
My mind is playing tricks on me
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- published: 02 Aug 2009
- views: 40935362
6:03
Bushwick Bill - Ever So Clear (R.I.P.) 12/8/66 - 6/9/19
Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill. He was best known as a membe...
Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill. 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. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.
Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a merchant marine, and his mother was a maid. Shaw was born with dwarfism and was listed as 3 feet 8 inches tall.
Shaw got his start in the music industry in 1986 as a member of the Geto Boys, where he performed as a dancer known as Little Billy. He later transitioned to rapping, and was featured on the Geto Boys' debut album, Making Trouble in 1988. The album received little attention and negative reviews, which led to Rap-A-Lot dropping all members from the group except for Bill and DJ Ready Red. Soon after, Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince recruited Scarface and Willie Dee, two local aspiring artists out of Texas as the second incarnation of the group. The new lineup began recording together in 1988 and their debut project as a group and second overall for the Geto Boys, Grip It! On That Other Level was released in 1989 to much better reception, being considered a classic album and one of the earliest entries into the Horrorcore genre. It was around this time the group's lyrical content began to generate controversy, which was multiplied in 1991 when the cover of the group's third album We Can't Be Stopped depicted a graphic image of Bill moments after he shot himself during an argument with his girlfriend. Nevertheless, the album went on to be their most successful to that point, being certified platinum in 1992.
Bushwick Bill can be heard on the album The Chronic by Dr. Dre; he appears in the video of "Dre Day" as one of Eazy-E's fellow rappers. His 1998 album No Surrender…No Retreat was dedicated to his friend Gil Epstein, a Fort Bend County prosecutor who was shot dead in Houston, Texas, in 1996.
In June 2013, Bushwick toured with the Geto Boys and was finishing an album, which was projected to be released later that year.
On June 19, 1991, Shaw shot himself in the eye during an argument with his girlfriend, losing his right eye in the process while under the influence of Everclear grain alcohol and PCP. The aftermath of the incident was documented on the album cover for Geto Boys' 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped, which shows Shaw being pushed through the hospital on a gurney by bandmates Willie D and Scarface. Shaw claims he "died and came back to life" during the incident, and has made reference to it in his music. In 2006, he became a born-again Christian. On May 2010, Shaw was arrested in Georgia for possession of marijuana and cocaine. Based on his prior arrest record, he was facing deportation.
On May 1, 2019, Shaw revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. On June 9, 2019, reports emerged that Shaw had died, but news of his death was later refuted by his son. However, it was subsequently reported and confirmed that Shaw died later that day at a hospital in Colorado.
https://wn.com/Bushwick_Bill_Ever_So_Clear_(R.I.P.)_12_8_66_6_9_19
Richard Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019) was a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill. 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. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.
Bushwick Bill was born Richard Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966 in Kingston, Jamaica. His father was a merchant marine, and his mother was a maid. Shaw was born with dwarfism and was listed as 3 feet 8 inches tall.
Shaw got his start in the music industry in 1986 as a member of the Geto Boys, where he performed as a dancer known as Little Billy. He later transitioned to rapping, and was featured on the Geto Boys' debut album, Making Trouble in 1988. The album received little attention and negative reviews, which led to Rap-A-Lot dropping all members from the group except for Bill and DJ Ready Red. Soon after, Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince recruited Scarface and Willie Dee, two local aspiring artists out of Texas as the second incarnation of the group. The new lineup began recording together in 1988 and their debut project as a group and second overall for the Geto Boys, Grip It! On That Other Level was released in 1989 to much better reception, being considered a classic album and one of the earliest entries into the Horrorcore genre. It was around this time the group's lyrical content began to generate controversy, which was multiplied in 1991 when the cover of the group's third album We Can't Be Stopped depicted a graphic image of Bill moments after he shot himself during an argument with his girlfriend. Nevertheless, the album went on to be their most successful to that point, being certified platinum in 1992.
Bushwick Bill can be heard on the album The Chronic by Dr. Dre; he appears in the video of "Dre Day" as one of Eazy-E's fellow rappers. His 1998 album No Surrender…No Retreat was dedicated to his friend Gil Epstein, a Fort Bend County prosecutor who was shot dead in Houston, Texas, in 1996.
In June 2013, Bushwick toured with the Geto Boys and was finishing an album, which was projected to be released later that year.
On June 19, 1991, Shaw shot himself in the eye during an argument with his girlfriend, losing his right eye in the process while under the influence of Everclear grain alcohol and PCP. The aftermath of the incident was documented on the album cover for Geto Boys' 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped, which shows Shaw being pushed through the hospital on a gurney by bandmates Willie D and Scarface. Shaw claims he "died and came back to life" during the incident, and has made reference to it in his music. In 2006, he became a born-again Christian. On May 2010, Shaw was arrested in Georgia for possession of marijuana and cocaine. Based on his prior arrest record, he was facing deportation.
On May 1, 2019, Shaw revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. On June 9, 2019, reports emerged that Shaw had died, but news of his death was later refuted by his son. However, it was subsequently reported and confirmed that Shaw died later that day at a hospital in Colorado.
- published: 11 Jun 2019
- views: 841331
4:09
Wha Cha Gonna Do
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Wha Cha Gonna Do · Bushwick Bill
Phantom of the Rapra
℗ Rap-A-Lot/SoSouth Music Distribution
Released on: 1995-07-...
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Wha Cha Gonna Do · Bushwick Bill
Phantom of the Rapra
℗ Rap-A-Lot/SoSouth Music Distribution
Released on: 1995-07-11
Writer, Composer: Bryaan Ross
Writer, Composer: John Bido
Writer, Composer: Mike Dean
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Wha Cha Gonna Do · Bushwick Bill
Phantom of the Rapra
℗ Rap-A-Lot/SoSouth Music Distribution
Released on: 1995-07-11
Writer, Composer: Bryaan Ross
Writer, Composer: John Bido
Writer, Composer: Mike Dean
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- published: 23 Jan 2017
- views: 590850
4:55
Chuckwick
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Chuckwick · Bushwick Bill
Little Big Man
℗ 2013 RAP-A-LOT 2K RECORDS, INC.
Released on: 2013-08-15
Auto-gene...
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Chuckwick · Bushwick Bill
Little Big Man
℗ 2013 RAP-A-LOT 2K RECORDS, INC.
Released on: 2013-08-15
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Chuckwick · Bushwick Bill
Little Big Man
℗ 2013 RAP-A-LOT 2K RECORDS, INC.
Released on: 2013-08-15
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- published: 17 Jul 2018
- views: 259591
12:50
Nardwuar vs. Bushwick Bill
Nardwuar interviews Bushwick Bill at SXSW 2014 in Austin, Texas! http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar
Nardwuar interviews Bushwick Bill at SXSW 2014 in Austin, Texas! http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar
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Nardwuar interviews Bushwick Bill at SXSW 2014 in Austin, Texas! http://www.twitter.com/nardwuar
- published: 28 Mar 2014
- views: 189472
35:52
Celebrity Underrated - The Bushwick Bill Story (Geto Boys)
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- published: 09 Nov 2023
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