They began as the Ghetto Boys back in the mid-1980s, and released debut Grip It On That Other Level in 1989. Bill’s publicist, Dawn P., told The Associated Press that the rapper died Sunday, June 9, 2019, at a Colorado hospital. A pioneering gangsta crew repping Houston's Fifth Ward, the Geto Boys were the first southern group to find national fame. A publicist for rapper Bushwick Bill says the founder of the iconic Houston rap group the Geto Boys has died. Richard William Stephen Shaw (Decem June 9, 2019), better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, or Logan Cirrone was a Jamaican-American rapper and record producer. In this March 18, 2016, photo Bushwick Bill, right, joins Deftones’ Chino Moreno onstage at the SPIN Party at Stubb’s during the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The Jamaica-born rapper was widely reported to have died earlier Sunday after a bandmate wrote a post on Instagram suggesting so, but his publicist had said Sunday afternoon that those reports were premature. The song was featured in Mike Judge’s 1999 workplace satire “Office Space.” On another of the group’s tracks, “Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta,” he rapped about being a smart gangster who was positioning himself for success and longevity rather than a violent early death.
Later, he would compare himself to the horror character Chucky, even writing a song about it. Their gritty verses punctuated by tales of violence, misogyny, and hustling made them platinum sensations and showed that rap had strength outside the strongholds of New York, where it got its start, and later Los Angeles.īushwick Bill was the group’s most explosive member and played up his real-life chaos: The cover of the Geto Boys “We Can’t Be Stopped” features him on a gurney with a garish eye wound. The Houston-based Geto Boys was a trio consisting of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D that launched in the late 1980s. The depictations of rape and mutilation, which the G.B.’s argued was a common subject of horror flicks, was too much for Geffen, which had no problem putting out Andrew Dice Clay’s sexist. He said he was working on new music because, “I notice when most celebrities pass, they really don’t have nothing set up for their children and everything’s in disarray so I figure, old music will sell but if I have new music for them … at least they will have residual income from those things.” When producer Rick Rubin signed the Geto Boys to his Def American label in 1990, his distributor, Geffen, refused to release the group’s self-titled CD.
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