Wesley Willis, a 6-foot-4, 320-pound former homeless man who channeled his schizophrenia into an unlikely career as a rock music cult hero, died Thursday. He was 40. He had undergone emergency surgery ...

The late Wesley Shabazz Willis was one of the coolest mofos in music. The schizophrenic African-American musician (who refered to his psychotic episodes as “hellrides”) sung howling songs set to ...

After four years, hundreds of songs and well over a dozen CDs, Chicago-based singer and 320-pound chronic schizophrenic Wesley Willis has a major-label record deal. Of course, the song remains the ...

Giant outsider performer Wesley Willis’s connections to Houston were somewhat tenuous, but the Chicagoan did have a couple. For one, local scene fixture Jamie Sralla was friendly enough with the guy ...

Chicago's most famous 6'5", 350-pound schizophrenic, the prolific songwriter Wesley Willis will visit Gainesville Thursday evening to perform his upbeat, repetitive tunes which lyrically pay a ...

Once known as the hairy grandaddy of whatever it is people consider the “lowbrow art” movement, Ron English was most identifiable this year as the agit-pop provocateur behind that vaguely ...

Unlike, say, Afroman, who briefly rushed the chart with the dumbest pot single ever, Wesley Willis’ songs from the street have considerably more reality, grit and catchiness. Anybody who’s caught his ...

Scott: This is the second week in a row my MP3 of the Week selection was triggered by a musician's death. Let's hope the streak stops here. Anyway, this is one of my favorite Wesley Willis songs, my ...

Singer-songwriter Wesley Willis, a 300-pound diagnosed schizophrenic who went from street performer in Chicago to cult hero during the 1990s, died Thursday after a long battle with chronic myelogenous ...

After receiving treatment in June for internal bleeding due to chronic myelogenous leukemia, Wesley Willis stayed in hospice care until he passed away Aug. 21. He was 40. Willis dominated a certain ...