Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys - Leaves Behind Never Released Recordings at SK RECORDS
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| Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys - Hanging out Inside Studio Knights - Mesquite, TX |
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| Bushwick Bill with Josh Knight and Friends at the Historic Downtown Mesquite, TX - McWhorter/Greenhaw Building |
Article by the Rolling Stone Magazine (June 9th, 2019)
Bushwick Bill, a member of the Houston rap trio Geto Boys, has died at the age of 52. The rapper born Richard Shaw recently revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
“Bushwick Bill passed away peacefully this evening at 9:35 p.m. He was surrounded by his immediate family,” the rapper’s publicist Dawn P. tells Rolling Stone. “There were incorrect previous reports that he had passed away this morning. We are looking into doing a public memorial at a later date. His family appreciates all of the prayers and support and are asking for privacy at this time.”
As Shaw recalled in a TMZ interview, doctors told him earlier this year, “‘We see a mass on your pancreas and we can’t understand it. It’s not alcohol, it’s not sugar, it’s not diabetes. They went through all kinds of stuff. And finally, by February 8th, they said it was stage 4 [pancreatic] cancer.”
“I figure keeping it to myself is not really helping nobody, and I’m not really afraid of dying because if anyone knows anything about me from [his 1992 song] ‘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 the incident where he accidentally shot himself in the eye.
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