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Geto Boys' Bushwick Bill Facing Deportation To Jamaica
By Allen Starbury ♦ Published 07/19/2010

Bushwick BillGeto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill was in an Atlanta courtroom last week (July 16) for proceedings in an ongoing case where he could face deportation.

According to the ATL's Creative Loafing, the rapper (real name: Richard Shaw) appeared in Atlanta Immigration Court and is facing deportation to Jamaica, where he was born in 1966 before moving to New York and later Houston.

Some reports indicate that Bill was arrested and charged with soliciting, but we could not confirm this as of press time.

The rapper rose to fame as a member of the pioneering southern hip-hop trio, the Geto Boys, who have released six albums throughout their careers as a group, and several other solo projects.

The Geto Boys are best known for their 1991 smash hit "Mind Playing Tricks On Me," off their platinum-selling We Can't Be Stopped.

Bushwick Bill is most well-known for an accidental shooting in 1991, which resulted in the lost of his right eye. The entire incident is told in detail, by Bill, in a song from his solo debut Little Big Man called "Ever So Clear." The song's title references the type of alcohol he was drinking during the night of the incident: Everclear.

While in the hospital, being treated for the gunshot wound, a picture was taken for The Geto Boys' platinum-selling album, We Can't Be Stopped. In the picture, the group's other two members, Willie D and Scarface, are pushing a gurney down a hospital hall, and the bloodied swollen eye can clearly be seen.

Bill's next day is court was unknown at press time.

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  • b.k. da wrestler

    That Sucks,Hope to get his US citzenship soon

  • BigWill

    DAMN THAT'S FUCKEDUP WHY THE ALWAYS HAVE TO GO AFTER THE BLACKMAN 50 MILLIONS MEXICANS IN THIS MOFOKER CUTING DOWN OUR KIDS BUT HTE MAN DON'T CARE AS LONG AS THEY AIN'T KILLING HIS PEOPLE IT'S A FUCKUP SYSTEM THEY GOT SHYNE GOT SLIKRICK NOW TJEY WANT BUSHWICK BILL THE HIPHOP POPO AT WORK

  • http://www.nutterz.com gOOEY nUTTBUSS

    how you gonna wait till 2010 to deport a nigga that been here working, touring the world with a United States passport and payin taxes since the 1980's???
    one of you smart dumb niggaz
    or one of you crackaz on here with
    a lawyer mommy and D.A. daddy need to look into this ASAP
    SCARFACE LAY LOW!!! they got Willie D (i-phone scam)& Chuckwick.. YOU NEXT NIGGA!!!!

  • Bev

    Was that the only picture you could find of him? Anyway, keep your head up homie.

  • http://iamsoze.blogspot.com/ VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!!

    MAN, IF YA GET CAUGHT?????

    ACCEPT IT LIKE A MAN .....

    BUT PLEASE TO ALL THESE SUPER GANGSTER RAPPERS DON'T ACT LIKE H.O.E.S.

    STOP BLAMIN THE GOVERNMENT OF YA'LLZ MISTAKE....

  • http://clatl.com/music rodney carmichael

    Bushwick's lawyer is asking fans to write in to help with his deportation case: http://clatl.com/atlanta/bushwick-bill-teeters-on-the-brink-of-deportation/Content?oid=2038807

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