From Creative Loafing:
Over a month has passed since rumor sprouted surrounding legendary Geto Boys’ MC Bushwick Bill’s no-show at the June taping of VH1’s 2010 Hip Hop Honors. At the time, there was some speculation that he’d been arrested on unknown charges before he was scheduled to perform during the Rap-A-Lot Records dedication to honor the label’s founder, J. Prince.
While those charges or the arrest have yet to be confirmed, Bill is definitely in some hot water. Today, the Jamaican-born MC faced deportation proceedings in Atlanta Immigration Court. The cause for the ongoing case is also unknown.
The former member of the pioneering, Houston-based gangsta rap group, Geto Boys, was born Richard Shaw in Jamaica in 1966, but raised in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York (hence his stage name), before relocating to Houston in the ’80s.
