# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bushwick-bill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:47.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bushwick-bill"
name: "Bushwick Bill"
slug: "bushwick-bill"
description: "Richard William Stephen Shaw, better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican rapper. He was a member of the 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 most popular incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface."
tagline: "Jamaican rapper (1966–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bushwick_Bill_pic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-12-08"
deathDate: "2019-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.19103733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082266/"
    handle:    "nm0082266"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بوشويك بيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buswick_Bill"
    title: "Buswick Bill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://guw.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bushwick_Bill"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c4a02c5c-a1d8-45d7-9e12-4a355b201a7b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q607978"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/188167"
    title: "Bushwick Bill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump