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Distribution, retail sales, manufacturers have to get paid, how things are taxed-after everyone is paid then the money goes back to the label 90 days later, the label has to pay for the video, tour, et cetera, then how much is left for me? You’re not really thinking of it like business. While you’re on stage and signing autographs and seeing people like something that you thought of and how they’re enjoying it as a living thing, it gives you great joy. As much as you think this person or that is screwing you out of your money… it’s same for 2 Live Crew, it’s the same in R&B, rock'n'roll-any genre. We’re just people and the music business is a business. RS: It gives the depth of what’s going on. Pitchfork: What did you think of Straight Outta Compton? I walk in somewhere and end up turning into a wall and getting knots on my head.
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I might turn into the wall and bump into something because my mind is seeing it wrong-I’m not. If I’ve been in a room before when I had two eyes, my mind actually sees the whole room from memory. The only thing that changes is like a person who loses a limb has that phantom limb movement… they feel they’re doing things with two members of their body. Pitchfork: Has having one eye changed your life in any way? My mom asked me about that before she died-she wished I’d get another one. Pitchfork: Did you get a new eye? It looked like you had something in last time I saw you. He believes it should be all fair, split three ways. I called him and that’s when he told me about what he said about on his Facebook, saying he wasn’t going to do any Geto Boys stuff right now but do his own thing. He actually did a show in Rochester a week after he went in the hospital. RS: I don’t know… he’s had weight issues for years and I think that comes with blood pressure and all kinds of situations. Pitchfork: How is Scarface doing since the hospitalization? Now it’s not "look at the short guy," it’s "It’s Bushwick Bill!" If I was someone of "normal height" I would probably be like those people in Marvel Comic movies where they’re obscure and no one notices them until they have some kind of power, which I guess is what music does. Being short, I believe people looked and stared at me my whole life before I ever got on stage and rapped. I’m an introvert unless I’ve been drinking or something. Pitchfork: The director said you get recognized in country bars-everywhere. If you know his lyrics, you can imagine some of what he listed." "But this basically says if I put something in there that could hurt him and is not true, there’s all kinds of crazy things he can do to me. "Bill’s not afraid of anybody making him look bad," he laughs. Before Shaw signed his life-rights contract for the film, he drew up what he termed a "hood rider" for Roman. The filmmakers have a full-length rough cut and are now crowdfunding to help pay for the music rights and archival footage needed in order to finish production. Producer Kyra Kowasic calls it Bill’s version of 'stage-bombing.'" One song they all know that he’ll sing is ‘Gangsta of Love.’ That’s happened like three times. "If one person recognizes him, Bill nods and gets onstage and the guy plays a beat and he’ll rap.
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"There’s an open mic and Bill goes up and talks to the guitar player and got him to play a beat, then performed ‘Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta’ in front of him, half the cast of TV show "Silicon Valley", some tourists, and me." He’s done the same thing in Texas dive bars, too. Roman tells a story of them meeting with Mike Judge at small bar in Santa Monica.
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When he does, the outcomes are unpredictable. "It’s difficult to find him sometimes," explains Roman.
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=-=-=-Filmmaker Greg Roman has now spent three years with Shaw, capturing his life and times.