Bushwick Bill died so many times. Some of those deaths were theatrical. At some Geto Boys concerts, there was a mid-show stunt they did at least once. Bill would clutch his chest and collapse. Scarface and Willie D, the two other Geto Boys, would scream for help. Paramedics would swarm the stage. Then Bill would lurch up, grab a microphone, and keep rapping. Some of those deaths were metaphorical. "We're dead already," Bill told SPIN in 1990. He was talking about the hopeless violence in the Geto Boys' Houston hometown — the elevated circumstances that made it natural for the...
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