Dear Bushwick Bill,

Krip-Hop Nation here. How did we miss you? We tried but were you ready to join, to be the many except the one of a few? You came out on your songs but you had no choice. I’m not talking bad about the dead and I hope you rest in peace.

However let’s be honest why didn’t you answered our letters and text and emails. Krip-Hop had high hopes on the possibility of collaborating with you and not only musically but politically. Now we can only wonder what if? What if you were ready to go deep with us on our Krip-Hop politics but not only you. All the other HipHop artists who passed away because of their health disabilities from sickle cell to diabetes to lupus. We wonder were Dilla, Prodigy and Phife Dawg and even your band mate, Scareface with his healthy Disability were and are ready to embrace Krip-Hop? Tell Dilla, Prodigy and Phife Dawg we call them our Krip-Hop ancestors although we never worked together and had different ways of viewing disability.

What makes you stand out from our newly Krip-Hop ancestors is we came so close of making contact and you actually wrote back! We were so closed! Now that you are gone and Hip-Hop turned fifty this year 2023, we wonder will Hip-Hop elders be comfortable to not only talking but embracing their aging that brings disabilities. With all of the above, Krip-Hop Nation wants to thank you for all of your bold disability lyrics, pride, some times freaky representation and reality story telling as a Black disabled man.

UNTIL WE MEET

Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Founder of Krip-Hop Nation

R.I.P. Bushwick Bill