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We’re goin’ to jail!’ I ain’t going nowhere with you.” He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, ‘Get in. Later, someone asks Scarface to tell a story about his friendship with Tupac. Scarface doesn’t explain anything else about the situation, only to say that he never fully bought into Bill’s psychosis.

Scarface, whose real name is Brad Jordan, stoops his shoulders down a bit, curves his back inward to make himself seem smaller and insecure, and in a near-perfect Bushwick Bill voice, he responds, “Nobody loves me.” When he says it, people laugh, though I figure it’s mostly because no one was expecting him to do a Bushwick Bill impression. So by the time he gets to the part about asking Bushwick why he was crying, the entire room silently waits for the answer. When he talks, his voice isn’t quite the baritone sledgehammer he raps in, but it’s close enough to often feel intimidating and always feel important. When he walked into the store, the room felt like it leaned in his direction. Scarface is not a great guitar player - he opened by knuckling his way through the first few seconds of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” only to stop after a minute and proclaim that it’s an especially tricky thing to play - but he is an exceptional storyteller. He tells a story about finding Bill on the back of their tour bus one night after they’d all gathered there to collect royalty checks. At this moment, he’s asking the crowd if anyone has any questions, and someone near the front shouts something close to, “Tell us a story about Bill.” Scarface smiles. He just sort of stands up there, alternating between playing rock covers on a guitar and talking about his life (and occasionally both at the same time, if he’s feeling especially contemplative). He rarely mentions the book specifically. He’s here to promote his new book, Diary of a Madman, an autobiography cowritten with Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, 2 though mostly it feels like he’s just come to hang out. Scarface, 44, is standing on a smallish stage at a store called Cactus Music in Houston. So Bushwick Bill is and always has been compelling, which is why people always ask Scarface about him. (A photo of the post-shooting hospital visit was used on the cover of their album We Can’t Be Stopped, which was released later that year.) She shot him, exploding his right eye but somehow not killing him. The girlfriend grabbed the gun Bill was trying to give to her, and when it finally looked like she was going to use it, Bushwick grabbed it and put it up against his eyeball.

When she said no, he threw a vacuum cleaner at her and threatened to toss her baby out a window. In 1991, Bushwick Bill, very drunk and very sad about things, went to his girlfriend’s house and demanded she shoot him in the face. (Bushwick’s most unsettling verse came on 1989’s “Mind of a Lunatic,” which is too gruesome to recount here.)ĭone: There are many things to list here, but only one that really matters. Said: One time he rapped about shooting 900 missiles at a little girl another time he rapped about opening up someone’s head and fishing inside of it another time he rapped about the likelihood of his eating a dog’s brain while under the influence of alcohol. Actually, all three of these happened in just one song that’s less than four minutes long and isn’t even close to his most disturbing. Born Richard Shaw, Bill is famous because he is a good rapper, but also because he has said some crazy things and done some even crazier things. There is a third member - a human hurricane named Willie D - but most conversation about the group is about either Scarface or Bill. He’s talking about Bushwick Bill, his compatriot in the legendary rap group Geto Boys.