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    Geto Boys' Bushwick Bill dies: Morbid, provocative — an unlikely hip-hop legend

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Jun 11, 2019 4 minutes

    Bushwick Bill terrified a vice president's wife into regulating song lyrics, released album art of himself bleeding on a gurney with a gunshot wound to the eye, and helped put Houston into the global hip-hop archipelago.

    The 52-year-old rapper, born Richard Stephen Shaw, died Sunday in Colorado, according to representatives for Bill who spoke to the Associated Press. He had been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

    The MC was one of hip-hop's most colorful and charismatic figures, whose macabre lyricism in the group Geto Boys - imbued with horror-movie violence drawn from life in Houston's rough

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