Shooting himself, the rapper displayed his injuries on the cover of We Can’t Be Stopped.Įarly last year on Questlove Supreme, Scarface opened up about the differences within the group. Perhaps most famously, Bill attempted suicide in 1991. Equating it to a referendum on demand for more music, Scarface announced that he was no longer open to reunion projects. In 2015, following De La Soul’s mid-six-figure raise for …And The Anonymous Nobody, the Geto Boys failed to meet a fundraising goal for what would have been their first group album since 2005. Last year, Scarface denounced any possibilities of a Geto Boys reunion in the studio. Prince Discusses Rapping On The Geto Boys’ “Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta” (Video)ĭespite the gravity of Bill’s diagnosis, this latest development adds to a complicated history of the group, especially as it pertains to this famed trio lineup. The veteran solo artist outside of Geto Boys will reportedly begin his Ph*ck Cancer Tour on June 8 in Dallas, Texas. Notably, the 52-year-old Jamaican born MC still plans to reach his fans.
TMZ adds, “People connected to Willie and Scarface tell us they were blindsided by Bushwick, and claim he didn’t voice any complaints about the tour as recently as last weekend.” The report also alleges, “Bill believes tour organizers exploited his cancer news, jacked his tour idea and turned it into a full reunion for the Dirty South legends-and that’s why he decided to pull out.” Specifically, the founding Geto Boys dancer-turned-MC was bothered with a publicized tour title, The Beginning Of A Long Goodbye: The Final Farewell. TMZ reports that Bill withdrew from the concerts, citing exploitation of his health issues. Scarface Explains Why He Is Done With The Geto Boys & Swears It’s For Good Just hours before the Pontiac show, Bushwick Bill has canceled the tour. The reunion marked the first in several years for the group who took over as a revamped Geto Boys lineup in 1989 alongside the late DJ Ready Red. In apparent response, four shows were put in place to raise money for Bill and cancer research for others. At the top of this month, Bill (real name Richard Shaw) revealed that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Scarface and Willie D had announced a sudden reunion with Bushwick Bill, the most tenured Geto Boy of the three. ORIGINAL MAY 24 STORY: This evening in Pontiac, Michigan the reunited Geto Boys were scheduled to perform their first of four shows. Chemo therapy gave me pneumonia.” At the top of this month, the Jamaican-born dancer-turned-MC revealed that his currently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. But if my health was a concern, then you would know about my health, not about me pulling out of the tour. “Now, the rumor is I pulled out on the tour. The Geto Boys’ Bushwick Bill Has Been Diagnosed With Stage 4 Cancer (Video)īill refutes statements published at TMZ. ( Bio continued)įor this list, we selected our top 15 Geto Boys songs.A post shared by Bushwick Bill on at 7:22am PDT After releasing solo albums during the mid-’90s, the Geto Boys reunited in 1996 for one of their most praised albums, The Resurrection. Their follow-up, We Can’t Be Stopped, eventually hit platinum, though the trio of Scarface, Willie D., and Bushwick Bill began to fracture by 1993. The controversy, which occurred two years earlier than similar censorship incidents involving Ice-T and 2 Live Crew, gave the Geto Boys a large amount of publicity.
Blocked from distributing their 1990 major-label debut by Geffen - who insisted that a track dealing with necrophilia as well as murder was a step too far – the group’s label, Rap-A-Lot Records struck a deal with producer Rick Rubin, who arranged another distributor for the album, released on his own Def American label. Though the controversial subject matter of gangsta rap wasn’t much of a barrier to popular success during the ’90s, the Geto Boys’ recordings proved almost too extreme for widespread exposure.