Geto Boys' Bushwick Bill announces has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Bill told TMZ that he was diagnosed in February.

He said that he has been undergoing chemotherapy, but his prognosis is unclear.

"And I was like, stage 4? I have been getting tested for a mass but it was benign," Bill told TMZ. "So, I am like could it be cancer? I was told it is mass with no purpose. So to find out, and pancreatic cancer is undetected until it's in the fourth or fifth stage."

He said he kept the diagnosis private until now.

"I have been keeping it to myself and I am getting ready to tell Scarface and Willie D [fellow Geto members]. I have only told close family members and that's about it," he continued. "But I figured keeping it to myself is not helping anybody. It's not like I am afraid of dying, because if anyone knows anything about me then they know I died and came back already in June 19, 1991. So, I know what it is like on the other side and that really not what it's about."

The Geto Boys are a rap group from Houston, Texas who rose to fame in the early '90s. Some of their hits include "G.E.T.O." "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," "Damn It Feel Good to Be" and "Still."

The group's DJ, Ready Red, died from a heart attack last year.

CNN has reached out to Bushwick Bill's representative for comment.

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