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Jamaican-American rapper, Bushwick Bill is dead.The entertainer died of cancer at the age of 52, his representatives confirmed.
Bushwick, born Richard Stephen Shaw, died on Sunday evening at a local hospital surrounded by his family in Houston.
“Bushwick Bill passed away peacefully this evening at 9:35 p.m.,” the statement reads.
“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.”
TheNewsGuru reports that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in February and was undergoing chemotherapy.
Bushwick 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.
Known for his brash persona and performative storytelling, Bill’s unhinged, engaging bars on Geto Boys classics like “F*** a War,” “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” and “Mind of a Lunatic” were central to the group carving out its place as a pioneering Southern rap unit in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
Bushwick Bill was born with dwarfism and suffered from joint pain. In October 1991, Bill — drunk on Everclear and arguing with his then-girlfriend as he details in the song “Ever So Clear” — was shot in the eye. Willie D and Scarface posed alongside Bushwick Bill in the hospital halls the night he was shot, a photo which would later be used as the album cover of the trio’s 1991 seminal album We Can’t Be Stopped. To date, it remains the group’s best-selling.
In 2010, Bushwick Bill was arrested in Atlanta, charged with criminal possession of cocaine and marijuana and facing possible deportation.
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