īushwick Bill can be heard on the album The Chronic by Dr. Nevertheless, the album went on to be their most successful to that point, being certified platinum in 1992. 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.
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. Prince recruited Scarface and Willie Dee, two local aspiring artists out of Texas as the second incarnation of the group. 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. He later transitioned to rapping, and was featured on the Geto Boys' debut album, Making Trouble in 1988. 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. Shaw was born with dwarfism and as an adult was listed as 3 feet 8 inches (112 cm) tall. His father was a merchant mariner, and his mother was a maid. They remain a widely acknowledged influence on both Southern rap and particularly the horrorcore genre.Bushwick Bill was born Richard William Stephen Shaw on December 8, 1966, in Kingston, Jamaica. 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.” 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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