The most well-known event of Bushwick Bill’s life was a shooting accident in which he lost his right eye. One night in May 1991, while depressed, drunk and suicidal, he went to his girlfriend’s house and asked her to shoot him. She refused, and he threatened to harm their baby. After a struggle, the gun went off, piercing his eye, leaving a bullet stuck inside his head. He survived the accident, but lost his eye. The whole story is told in detail in the song «Ever So Clear» and its accompanying music video.

«See, most of my life I never had shit
I felt like an outcast, treated like a misfit
Damn near didn’t make it on my day of birth
Thinking was I really supposed to be on this planet earth»
Bushwick Bill, «Ever so clear»