Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Bushwick Bill

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Richard William Stephen Shaw, better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican-American rapper. He was best known as a member of the pioneering Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a breakdancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the best-known incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface.

American - Musician | December 6, 1966 - June 9, 2019

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Business has always been cutthroat, no matter what the business is.

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I noticed when most celebrities pass, they really don't have nothing set up for their children.

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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. Straight up like that.

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The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.

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The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

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I have no hatred for people I don't know.

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I am a goofy person at heart.

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They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.

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If people believe that the Geto Boys really do stuff like on 'Mind of a Lunatic,' they must also believe there's a real Freddie Krueger and a real Micheal Myers.

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My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.

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The truth can't be stopped.

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I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't speak for themselves and about things we see every day.

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I still believe there's going to be peace at last - but not until Jesus Christ returns. Until then, Armageddon is in full effect, and we have to work on preserving ourselves instead of destroying ourselves.

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I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

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You can't candy-coat an unsweetened world. But you can get together and make it a better place to live.

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I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.

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My fans know to treat my lyrics like a T-bone steak - you know you can't chew on it unless you cut the fat off.

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I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.

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After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!

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I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.

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Being short, I believe people looked and stared at me my whole life before I ever got on stage and rapped.

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We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.

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If you give up your dreams you die.

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My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.

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It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.

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Well I invented horrorcore rap actually. When I did 'Chuckie' and when I did 'Mind of a Lunatic' - there was nothing like that.

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We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

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Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

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It's not like I'm afraid of dying. I know what it's like on the other side.

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I understand witchcraft being from the islands. You can't be from the Caribbeans and say that you don't know voodoo or don't know about it. Or that you don't know someone who has practiced it. It's just that in my family we never did. People in extreme impoverished situations if they ain't reaching out to God, they reaching out to the other side.

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It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.

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A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.

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I'm like a Mr. Mom. I get up and help out, getting the milk together and changing diapers. I've even learned to mix baby formulas and stuff like that.

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I still feel the pain from the fact I've got a bullet in my brain.

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Fame will make you crazy.

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We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.

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We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.

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I've never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. 'Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I'm rapping on my gospel album, I didn't get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.

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This society, it hurts me, man.

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I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.

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In '84 there was Raheem, Slim Jukebox, and Sir Rap-A-Lot. Those were the first three members of the Geto Boys with DJ Ready Red. By '85 it was Prince Johnny C, Slim Jukebox, Bushwick Bill, and DJ Ready Red. By '89 it was Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, and Ready Red.

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You can't get around it. Life is pain, and pain is everywhere.

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All I really want is to be left alone.

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We all share the planet, the rainbows share the sky, why can't we all share the same dream? And rap about what we see?

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I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.

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I really like Kendrick Lamar. I'm still a Talib Kweli fan, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Common Sense - people who say things that are relevant to everyday life. I don't pay attention to artists that talk about throwing money away and the car that they drive.

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It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.

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There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain't no hypocrite.

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Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.

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I kept watching all the different 'Child's Play' sagas, right? Then all of a sudden I decided, 'He's short, I'm short. What a better concept?' It fits. If I can't make the song, why make the movies?

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I just want people to be aware so that when they set dreams or goals, they're healthy enough to fulfill and live.

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Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.

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Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.

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I've never had a big personality. I'm an introvert unless I've been drinking or something.

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See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.

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You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

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I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

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This year Halloween fell on a weekend Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin' Robbin' little kids for bags.