A biography for Bushwick Billhasn’t been written yet.
“Being short, I believe people looked and stared at me my whole life before I ever got on stage and rapped.”
“It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.”
“I've never had a big personality. I'm an introvert unless I've been drinking or something.”
“I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.”
“It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.”
“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.”
“It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.”
“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.”
“Fame will make you crazy.”
“The truth can't be stopped.”
“The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.”
“I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.”
“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.”
“My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.”
“You can't get around it. Life is pain, and pain is everywhere.”
“Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.”
“I understand witchcraft being from the islands. You can't be from the Caribbeans and say that you don't know voodoo or don't know about it. Or that you don't know someone who has practiced it. It's just that in my family we never did. People in extreme impoverished situations if they ain't reaching out to God, they reaching out to the other side.”
“We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.”
“They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.”