Bushwick Bill, Geto Boys Rapper, Dead At 52

Bushwick Bill, a member of the legendary Houston rap order the Geto Males, died Sunday night (June 9) soon after a battle with pancreatic cancer. His publicist confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone. He was 52.


Place on Earth in Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, Bushwick Bill was introduced into the Geto Gentlemen in 1986 as a dancer named Little Billy, eventually transitioning to dropping rhymes on the group's debut album, Making Trouble, in 1988. The sort — consisting of him, Scarface, and Willie D — would grow to be genre stalwarts thanks to their pioneering efforts in horrorcore rap. Their third studio album, We Can't Be Stopped, would go platinum in 1992. Over the course of seven of the group's eight albums, Bushwick Expenditures voice can be heard punching in smooth and spicy flows.


He also noticed infamy appearing on the cover of the group's We Can't Be Stopped album in 1991 in a hospital gown soon after suffering a gunshot wound to the attention. He talked the incident on his song "Ever So Clear," rapping, "And I'm glad that I'm here, gee / Although it's fucked up I had lose an eye to be able to see shit clearly."


Away from Geto Men, Bushwick Bill was identically as tenacious. He dropped his debut solo studio LP, Little Big Man, in 1992, which peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 200. He released six solo albums as well; his last studio LP was 2010's My Testimony of Redemption. He was currently planning on heading out on a solo trek called the "Phuck Cancer" tour before his death.


Members of the hip-hop community, including longtime icons Juicy J and Bun B, have come forward to pay their respects.