Willie D recently sat down with VladTV to discuss a myriad of topics, including why he didn’t attend Bushwick Bill’s funeral. The OG member of the Geto Boys passed away last month after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in February.
During the conversation, Willie insists they didn’t like each other and felt showing up would’ve been an inauthentic gesture.
“When somebody has a funeral man, it’s like this — I feel like it’s disingenuous for somebody to come to your funeral who you don’t like,” he explains. “Bill didn’t like me. I ain’t like Bill, you know what I’m saying? That’s the truth. This ain’t no phony shit. I know that everybody want to do some politically correct shit and all that, but that’s the truth, bro.
“The truth is the truth. I know that if Bill had his choice, Bill probably see me walk up and be like, ‘Get that muthafucka outta here.’ That’s how I feel. The energy is not right, bro. And I don’t need nobody looking upside my head and shit like I did something wrong, like I fuckin’ caused him to die. Nah, I don’t think that I would be welcomed.”
Willie goes on to discuss the death of DJ Ready Red, a founding member of the Geto Boys. Red died unexpectedly last August of a suspected heart attack. Willie says he didn’t go to his funeral either.
“Me and Red was cool for a long time, but like the last year and a half of Red’s life, we didn’t speak,” he admits. “That’s because Red was bitter. He was still mad at how things went down with the Geto Boys and how we wouldn’t let him back in the group after he walked away. He wanted to come back in the group after he walked away, basically abandoned the group.
“Then [DJ] Domo steps in and he’s the most consistent member of the group. He’s our DJ now and he’s consistent. He’s on his game at all times — 100 percent reliable. Red first started trying to get back in the group after a year or so. So every year or two, Red would make a strong move to try to get back in the group.”
Willie wasn’t done there. He wanted to go into further detail about why he wasn’t at Red’s service.
“I didn’t want to come to the funeral because I felt I would have brought bad energy,” he says. “Anybody you got a problem with, if they come to your funeral, somebody that really, really love you and care for you, they may see you as the enemy.
“They don’t know what transpired between y’all. All they know is they had a problem with you, so I gotta problem with you … I didn’t feel welcome at that funeral.”
The conversation wraps up with Willie discussing the Geto Boys’ legacy.
Watch the full clip above.
This is why we Love Willie D. He’s just keeping it real, lol. They put that bullshit to the side to make the music though.
He could of showed up to both funerals to pay his final respects. Instead he went to vlad…
He didn’t go to them. People were asking and his family has shot some shit his way. If you knew the history of the group, none of this was news. Big Mike and Scarface hate each other to this day, and that album after Willie D. Left the group and Mike took his place is right up there as one of the best the group put out. People have these fantasies that all of these dudes were homeboys, especially put together groups like this, and it’s just not realistic. All that matters is that they made dope music.
You are right about Big Mike. I personally think that album he was on was their best collectively! Big Mike’s solo joint “Hard to Hit” is a classic!
Wow thats deep. I feel what he saying, you gotta keep dat same energy even in death
Willie D a far left loon hates that Bill was a Christian. It’s Trump derangement syndrome. If u go to even an enemy’s funeral, it’s always looked at as a peace offering & people there respect that (speaking from experience). As he said, they don’t know what y’all discussed. Y’all may have made up recently for all they know. I hope his excuses help him sleep at night at least.
People problems man…and i honestly do see his point in that. it’s not disrespect, it’s actually respect, even after death…i’m sure he’s not glad that either one of his band members are dead, it’s just that he knows there was bad energy when they were alive. all respect jack
This dude sounds he has problems with everyone around him.( it got to do with money I guess) … He will end up not showing up at his own funeral.
Although I didn’t touch on that with my comment, I feel the same way…seems like Will does not have a great get-along game
HOW did you turn this into a political issue. And then flip this into Trump derangement syndrome. As if you would need a condition to need to hate him. He’s a piece of shit.
my uncle witnessed willie and scarface beat up Bushwick when he asked about “his” money …they always bullied Bill. Bill was cool w all the hood people and the stars He wrote all the albums hisself and he always got paid less.
When you truly love someone and think about them all the time their living on through you in strange way and thats what’s counts it’s never the last party! Song of the Night Geto Boyz ( Six Feet Deep )
So this clown talks shit about trump but yet does basically the same thing trump does. Is he retarded or something.
Cocaine is a hellof a drug…
Bushwick was a better Rapper than Willie d Rest in peace to him
How when Willie and Face wrote his rhymes
Hi world I’m Randy so cal listen to my songs on Sound cloud I’m a indie Rapper at pretty Boy
Bill never wrote his rhymes tho. What are you talking about? @Heavenia
Didn’t wanna Go to his funeral cause y’all didn’t like each Otha but was finna Go on tour with him ?Bs at its finest
Gets off probation after serving a year for scamming people on eBay. Goes on the internet and talks about how important ‘being real’ is’ #thuglife
I respect that..No need to pretend after someone’s dead..You show how you feel whikeba person is living
I bet he has a massive Willie D if you know what I mean
Props to this guy for not being the typical sell out trying to profit from knowing a dead man like the rest of the leeches do
So this foo was about to go on tour with him.. Yet he can’t attend his funeral.. Gtfoh with that bullshit.. Seems like this guy only shows up when it’s convenient for him and money is all he cares about.. There’s a time and place for all that “keeping it real” bullshit this wasn’t that time.. It’s about paying respect to a brother u came up with cuz at one point in time u were good
10000000000% facts bro. Surprised someone else is able to think clear and see through this bs.
Do you go to funerals of all your co workers?
Bill loved too much, he couldn’t see that these snakes around him had nothing but hatred and malice for him. Willie D and his cohorts will answer for the ugly things they’ve done in this world.
Is everyone supposed to like everybody? He didn’t like dude which is cool, he wasn’t disrespectful about it. I don’t see what he did that was so “ugly”.
Bill knew this when he was alive. There has always been strife in that group. Big Mike and Scarface don’t like each other. Scarface has fallen out with everybody who has come through the group except Willie D. It is what it is.
I’M NOT FEELING THIS, BUT I GUESS ITS EITHER HAVE PEOPLE SPECULATE OR LET FANS KNOW THE TRUTH. CAN’T HATE ON THIS.
I respect this to the fullest. You may want to do what’s expected or modest, but why attend any function of someone you had issues with. You might as well be fake and shake his hand after having a shootout.
Thats honesty coupled with emotional intelligence.You can not like some one and still make money with them. ITs called professionalism. If he didnt feel it was appropriate to go, then it wasn’t. Folks want you to do what they expect of you so that they stay in a comfortable zone. Do whats honest and right to you.
Willie D never was a poser. I don’t know him, Scarface/Akshon, Ready Red, Bushwick or J. Prince personally so I just speak on what I believe, knowledge accumulated thru music and a few interviews and 2nd/3rd party testimony but I always felt Willie D was straight up. No one I would entrust my earthly possessions, or the keys to my apartment, with; probably got issues, is a mean drunk and a misogynist asshole even considering he operated in a hyper-machizmo music scene out of a right-wing, reactionary city/state. But never fake, not acting a role as an mc either. On politics, he reacted with his guts, went above and beyond what was pc in 1989-1990 (still is a sore spot) defending PE (Griff especially) when they thx to Griff speaking some truth were labelled antisemitic, as a synonym for pro-palestine, something black folks get more shit than whites for, like black pro-palestinians equals ignorant lynch mob that simply needs to be lectured while white ditos may be hated by the media and establishment for it but treated as they are capable of intellectually reasoning their way to such ‘unamerican’ ideas. Such as Griffs correct one of israel being an apartheid state. Willie D’s loyalties are real. He featured on Canibus ’11 LP even though that couldnt possibly have been lucrative at a time when the C was dissed and laughed at, post-the Dizaster disaster. W.D. speaks the truth here, I can go to a funeral of an ex-friend if its a small one and I wanna show remorse for not settling our differences in time but Willie D going to Bushwicks probly royally huge funeral if they were antagonistic towards each other – and the family is aware – wouldve been for show, PR and attention.
Worth to mention (but aint got shit to do with Willie Ds funeral-going habits), thinking of the shitatorm Professor Griff went thru for his progressive views on international politics is that a country built on principles of racial supremacy, that is detaining, uprooting and driving thousands from their homes while expanding its own territory, and use military force domestically on a weekly basis, against civilians nonetheless, like Israel, is (according to international law) considered a colonial power and therefore fair game for any insurgence. I.e. Hamas, PLFP and Hizbollah is legitimate resistance movements as long as their territory is under occupation, Israel using their vast US-paid war machine against unarmed OR EVEN ARMED palestinians is violating the geneva convention.