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Richard Shaw (born December 8, 1966), officially named Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin the Barbarian Mother Funky Stay High Dollar Billstir, but better known as Bushwick Bill, is a member of the rap group Geto Boys. In 1991 he shot himself while drunk after his girlfriend refused to shoot him. A graphic picture of him in the hospital with his injury was on the cover of the Geto Boys' album We Can't Be Stopped. Bushwick Bill detailed the incident in the song Ever So Clear, as well as perfected his psychotic "Chuckwick" persona, (portraying himself as Chucky from the Child's Play movie) on his first solo album Little Big Man (1992).
Name changes
Shortly before the release of his second album Phantom of the Rapra (1995), Richard Shaw again changed his name. He summarizes his name change in an interview:
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My new name is Dr. Wolfgang Von Bushwickin the Barbarian Mother Funky Stay High Dollar Billstir. I call myself Dr. because that is someone who must be precise when they execute their job. The Wolfgang is because on the cool, I'm classical music and my favorite artist is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Bushwickin has to do with me being a father now and producing my own next of kin. So now I'm reproductive both verbally and physically. The Barbarian is to show that I still have the mind of a lunatic and that nothing's changed as far as me coming hard-core rough and rugged. Mother Funky Stay High is a manifestation of the aftermath of chronic-izm. Dollar Bill because I'm currently currency in the United States and abroad. Finally, "stir" is on the end because when I kick shit I always manage to stir something up, whether it's the police, parents, or pussy. |
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Released albums
His first solo album was Little Big Man (1992).
His second album was Phantom of the Rapra (1995) which spawned the single "Who's The Biggest".
Bushwick Bill later released No Surrender...No Retreat in 1998 and Universal Small Soldier in 2001. No Surrender...No Retreat was dedicated to Gil Epstein, a Fort Bend County assistant district attorney who was murdered in 1996 outside the Jewish Community Center off South Braeswood in Houston, Texas. (The two men involved in Epstein's murder received the death penalty.) The two became friends after Epstein was assigned to Bushwick's possession of marijuana case and Epstein convinced Bushwick that he was wasting his talents abusing drugs and alcohol.
In late 2004 the Geto Boys reformed for a new album called "The Foundation" and shortly afterwards Bushwick Bill announced the birth of two new media companies and released a Remix solo album called "Gutta Mix.
Christian Rap
In 2006, Bushwick Bill became a Born-Again Christian and is currently set to release an album entitled, "Testimony of Redemption" in 2007.
Television Appearences
Bushwick bill has appeared in a 1993 episode of Martin, a 1999 episode of Law and Order, and an episode of Ego Trip's The White Rapper Show in 2007
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