Quotes from Bushwick Bill

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

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

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

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

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

This society, it hurts me, man.

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

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

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

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?

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.

If you give up your dreams you die.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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