Bushwick Bill

Bushwick Bill
Bushwick Bill
	Bushwick Bill performing in 2005
Background information
Birth name	Richard William Stephen Shaw
Also known as	Little Billy; Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster;
Born	December 8, 1966; Kingston, Jamaica
Died	June 9, 2019 (aged 52); Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop; Southern hip hop;
Occupation(s)	Rapper
Years active	1986–2019
Labels	Rap-a-Lot
Height	3 ft 8 in (1.12 m)
Children	4

Richard William Stephen Shaw (December 8, 1966 – June 9, 2019), better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican rapper.^[3] He was a member of the Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a breakdancer in 1986 as Little Billy.^[4] He went on to become one third of one incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.

^ "Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster". Howtogrowarapper.wordpress.com. April 30, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference clatl1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Westhoff, Ben (2011). Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern rappers who reinvented hip-hop. A Cappella Book. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1-56976-606-4.
^ Moskow 0, Ben (November 10, 2021). "Bushwick Bill Was One of Houston's Most Provocative Rappers. A New Documentary Reveals the Man Behind the Outrage". Texas Monthly. Retrieved April 22, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[1] "Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin The Barbarian Mother-Funky Stay High Dollar Billster". Howtogrowarapper.wordpress.com. April 30, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2019.

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[:0-3] Westhoff, Ben (2011). Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern rappers who reinvented hip-hop. A Cappella Book. Chicago: Chicago Review Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1-56976-606-4.

[4] Moskow 0, Ben (November 10, 2021). "Bushwick Bill Was One of Houston's Most Provocative Rappers. A New Documentary Reveals the Man Behind the Outrage". Texas Monthly. Retrieved April 22, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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