*Update #2: Pimp C May Have Died Of Natural Causes*
According to TMZ, Capt. Ed Winter of the L.A. County Coroner's says Chad "Pimp C" Butler may have died of natural causes.
Winters says it did not appear that there was anyone else in the hotel room with Butler and no drug paraphernalia was found at the scene.
Butler was found laying sideways on his bed fully clothed.
Update #1
Jive Records have just released a statement regarding the untimely death of Chad "Pimp C" Butler.
It is with great sadness that Jive Records announces the passing of Chad "Pimp C" Butler, a member of the celebrated rap duo UGK (Underground Kingz). Jive Records' President and CEO Barry Weiss states:
"We mourn the unexpected loss of Chad. He was truly a thoughtful and kind-hearted person. He will be remembered for his talent and profound influence as a pioneer in bringing southern rap to the forefront. He will be missed and our prayers remain with his family and Bun B. I've known Chad since he was 18, and we loved him dearly and he was a cherished member of the Jive family."
Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Butler's father was a trumpet player who played professionally with Solomon Burke. Outside of his father, the 33-year old rapper's influences varied, ranging from Bobby Bland, Jimmy McGriff, the 1960's Motown artists to Run DMC. Butler met his inseparable partner Bernard "Bun B" Freeman in high school where they formed UGK. In 1992, the duo signed to Jive Records and went on release a total of eight albums for the label. They earned their highest achievement earlier this year when their most recent album, UGK
In other news…
(Underground Kingz), debuted in the number one position on the album pop chart. According to the New York Times, UGK "helped inspire a generation of Southern hip-hop stars, from OutKast to Lil Wayne."
Bun B is not available for comment at this time.
Details are still scarce and will be posted as they become available.
COMMENTS
Hip hop nation gonna miss u homie
R.I.P. PIMP C
MY CITY(HOUSTON) will neva forget you
"One Day" by U.G.K. bump that shit all day!
cosign, one day you here and then ya goooooooooooooone... classic cut for sure! RIP HOMEY C
this is fucked up man. pimp c's last solo album after he was released from jail was fuckin tight. i remember bangin some slut on my boys couch while pimp c was bumpin. "i pimp hard on a cracker, but i love me a crow." i'm gonna miss u mane. god bless
man i'm going 2 miss pc 2
I really don't know Pimp C like that, as far as his music, as I really don't get down with UGK OR the South... But, I LOVE it when my people succeed, @ least by American standards, and it does sting each time we lose on of our own.
In the last, what 10 days, we've lost Mannie Fresh's sis, Spice 1 has got shot, Sean Taylor #21, and now Pimp C... It's always somethin' man.
thats real right there! rip to the pimp
i signed up just to laugh at the fuq'n idiots that have to make even death a color thing.
Damn, UGK were legends down here in da south... R.I.P. homie we'll miss u
Im told that it might have been a Heroin/Cocaine overdose that led to Pimp C's death....not sure so Id rather let one of these rap sites figure that out...but my source is very reliable.
I THINK DA SAME THING
NIKKA FUK A NATURAL CAUSE OF DEATH
ITZ NOT HE WAS FUKIN OLD
RIP
MAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Make anigga shed a tear
R.I.P. PIMP C
RIP PIMP C, GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTON WE WILL BE MISSING YOU. PIMP C FINALLY FREE
Man I feel gutted dawg. I will never 4get this guy. His solo albums were amazing. If not lyrically then definately for delivery n beats. 'Sippin On Sizzurp' by Three6 is 1 of my fave tracks of all time, especially for his verse.
I'll be playing 'International Playa's Anthem' 4 him. Wot a track 2 be known for b4 u leave dis place.
R.I.P. Pimp C. God bless ur fam n Bun B 4 an unbelievably tragic loss
Sad day fo me homeboiis. man da south iz hurtin!!
R.I.P.
hmm...it said the fire department responded to the emergency call...i wonder what really happened...
R.I.P. Pimp C
R.I.P
wow... thats some crazy shit i was just talkin about him just the other day. i still dont belive it... he's in gods hands now. R.I.P pimp c, will miss u bruh:<
Im still in dis belief. Bun B without Pimp C? RIP nigga
Rest In Peace
A message from the South: FUCK YOU
Man fuck you if it wasnt for Pimp C and Bun B you wouldnt be listenin to a lot of Southern artists. Shit Im from Michigan and Imma stand up for the south nigga fuck you. Pimp C was a fuckin ledgend. Free Pimp C was ever where when he was locked up and how you think RIP Pimp C gon be. WTF this nigga stupid. You betta do some fuckin history. Stupid muthafucka
WHOA!!! "Rejoice or throw a party" Thats a wild comment son. You know yaself thats just ridiculous.
You Rest in Bricks Faggot. Pimp C was one of the realest to do it. UGK always spit that real nigga, true to life, soulful, rags to riches, honest hip hop. They are pioneers in the rap game and the best southern rappers you can think of all were influenced by them.
You are obviously a bitch ass, no love in the hood gettin, cornball, soft, punk ass nigga.
man who cares if u feel he had no influence on the rap game, its not about that, you should have more respect for someone who just passed away regardless, and the fact that he was internationally makes it more prominent in certain peoples eyes, so if people want to mourn let them mourn in peace without all that negativity. u never know what will happen with you any day now !
...take a step out of that cave Big Foot Jae... ...it's 2007 - people have some intelligence, manners and respect...
R.I.P. Pimp C
YOUA STUPID NIGGA. THATS WHY THE WORD IS STILL AROUND CUZ OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU. IGNORANT AND HAVE NO RESPECT FOR NOTHIN. NOT EVEN YOURSELF. KARMA IS A BITCH AND YOU PROLLY JUST HAVIN FUN TYPIN ALL THAT SHIT GETTIN UNDER PEOPLES SKIN. I PRAY FOR YOU BRO MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL. PIMP C WAS ONE OF THE FIRST UPCOMIN RAPPER FROM THE SOUTH TO DO IT WITH BUN B, AND THEY BANGED HARD TOO. YOU JUST A STUPID NIGGA FROM THE NORTH WHO CANT GET OUT OF NEW YORK YOU FUCK.
Such disrespect, we should burn u at stake nigga.
DAMN!!!!! The "defsounds solidiers" on here are RELENTLESS!!!! Somebody said dude should get burned at the stake!!! HARSH....RIP UGK
You dumb azz wat do you be thinking just becuz you dont think he is good don't mean he got to r.i.b wat the hell that got to do with him dieing
jae money ur a fuckin coward bitch..im not gonna sit here n talk shit cuz thats dumb..i just hope you fuckin get beat down til ur head and body flat on pavement..oh and god saw ur comment..he will get u back on that one
RIP PIMP C..RIP to my local homeboy Sean Taylor #21 always
your heartless man
RIP PIMP C U WERE HIP HOP
Jae.Money U NEEDA BE SHOT N THE HEAD
RIP you was one of the trilles to ever touch that Mic Device. Shit you was inspiration to us young hood niggas country-wide. RIP keepin you in our prayers.
Nigga that aint how its is, you just ignorant to the UGK catalogue. You dont know their songs and verses and what theve been talkin about all these years. Youre ignorant to it.
Pimp C is Hip-Hop because he helped put Houston on the map. He pioneered something new from the South. Don't believe in to that Soulja Boy bullshit. MIMS ain't doin' shit for the east coast
PS: How you say you don't listen to the South, but you say Lil' Wayne is needed in Hip-Hop
I am disgusted that you would actually say something like this. A man has passed away and people are in mourning. Regardless of whether or not you like his music, you need to respect the fact that a man, a human being, has passed away. If you can't do that then please simply keep your comments to yourself, because people are trying to pay their respects here.
Rest In Peace Pimp C. Texas will never forget you. To us you are TRU
YO JAE SHUT THE FUKK UP,YO THIS NIKKA JUST LOST HIS LIFE AND U STILL WRAPPED UP IN HOW U FEEL BOUT HIP HOP YO IF U AINT GOT NOTHIN GUD TO SAY BOUT IT THEN SHUT THE FUKK UP,U MAKIN YASELF REAL IRRELAVENT..RIP MA NIKKA PIMP C..SEE YOU AT THE TOP.
FIRST OFF I WANNA SAY R.I.P. PIMP C WE GON MISS U, NOW 2 HOMEBOY JAY U A STUPID AZZ NIGGA HOW DA FUCK U GON DISRESPECT A LEGEND IN DA SOUTH. PIMP MENT 2 US LIKE BIG WAZ 2 DA EAST AN PAC 2 DA WEST SO I SEE U DONT RESPECT WAT WE DO IN DA SOUTH OR OUR LYRICS AN TELL U SUM REAL SHIT DAT LYRICAL SHIT DONT MEAN NOTHIN IN DA SOUTH, ITS GOOD MUSIC, DAT FEEL GOOD MUSIC BUT BY U TALKIN DA SHIT U CAN FEEL A HARD DIC IN YA MOUTH FOR DA SOUTH FAGGOT!!
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Dumbass. You the reason why people in the South hate northerners. Pimp C did for the South what Too Short did for the West. The south isn't all about snappin', trappin', dancin' and whips. Fuck you for stereotypin' and perpetuatin' niggorance
damn homey, u dont have to hate on tha 5outh like that, fu¢K yall up north nigga5!!!!
Scarfac w/ UGK 2 Real Lyrics
[Chorus]
I feel no pain
I can't complain
Stuck in the game
Tryin to maintain
Cause I'm so real
[Pimp C]
We blow big everyday
But that don't stop our pain
Or bring back our homeboys that we done lost off in this dirty game
Got niggas doin 40
When you 25 that's life
I guess when your career is sellin dope somebody got to pay the price
These bitch ass niggas shife
Niggas might snitch out they momma
That's why me and Leroy watch, stay strapped and ready for all drama
Cause we ain't promised tommorow
But nigga you promised to die
Nigga can't you see you gettin to high trippin of that potent fry
At night I talk to God and try to understand
How people can worship false prophets and say prayers to a man
I guess they already gone, ain't nothin gone bring them back
So I just say thanks for what I got and blow on indo sacks
I still love my piece of change, wood grain and big head ones
But I had to realize in life everything ain't always fun
I guess that's true for some
But them hoes will never win
Out here just hustlin and grindin
Tryin to change from niggas to men...
thanx 4 that my nigga...not many west or east side rappers can spit like dat...well for fools who din know pimp suck a dick jae money ...u could get smoked 4 talkin shit....
THAT AIN'T NO LIE KID.
Master P feat UGK Ghetto Life
Chorus x4
This ghetto live got us hustlin' and scufflin'
I said penatentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'
Pimp C:
I live my life for my son so he can have something
Blessed just to see a new day so I'm trying to grab something
I been on top of the world and at the bottom too
When you up you got lots of friends and when you down it's few
The way we grew up was wrong, I'm the first to admit
I know God and just drop me here to be going through this
I lost D-Ray last year and it's just not the same
Just at the time in his life when he was trying to change
He told me, Pimp I need help, I want up out the game
I made a promise, I lied cause the next night he died
I guess our childhood is over 'cause man ain't nothing funny
And everythign that I love revolve around sex and money
I wanna have some more kids but in the 90's that's crazy
The woman's polluted so it ain't safe to make babies
And it's a shame cause Uncle Sam ain't got no job to pay me
But pay the mightiest 40 g's for every year they enslave me
It's crazy
RIP PIMP C. ANOTHER REAL DUDE DEAD AND LEGEND DEAD>
[Pimp C:]
Sweet jones
By bitch a choosey lover, never fuck without a rubber
Never in the sheets, like it on top of the cover
Money on the dresser, drive a compressor
Top notch hoes get the most, not the lesser
trash like the fuck for 40 dollars in the club
fucking up the game, bitch you gets no love
She be cross country givin all that she got
A thousand a pop, Im pullin Bentleys off the lot
I smashed up the grey one, bought me a red
Every time we hit the parking lot we turn heads
Some hoes wanna choose but them bitches too scary
Your bitch chose me, you aint a pimp you a fairy
UGK One Day
Chorus:
One day you here baby
But then youre gone (repeat)
Pimp C
I'm up early cuz aint enough light in the daytime
Smoke two sweets and serve these chickin 'fo the clock stricke nine
Peanut holder my boulders smolder on the PA pipes
Ak loader as I get swallowed under city lights
Niggas be lookin shife so I look shife back
Cant show no weakness in these streets you'll get yo life jacked
Mayn its a trip where i stay especially for me
This bitches tryin to lock me up for the whole century
They gave my boy down in Florida Dante 19
I wish that we could smoke again and take a tight lean
My world a trip you can ask Bun B bitch I aint no liar
My man RoRo jus lost his baby in a house fire
And then when I got on my knees that night to pray
I asked God why he let these killas live and take my homeboy's son away
Man if you got kids show em you love em cuz God jus might call em home
Cuz one day you here but baby the next day you gone
Look, you dumb bitch. That isn't all of what the south is about. We do alotta stuff, but only most things are promoted. Listen to a Little Brother CD you closed minded clown. It happens down here, but our lives aren't based on it. The mainstream put that stereotype on us
Its proves to any real nigga that reads them and anyone who knows the songs that you are a fake ass bitch ass nigga.
No real nigga or man period can read what that man has to say and not be able to tell that thier hearfelt and true comin from a nigga who done lived and breathed it.
You post a llyod banks verse. God if that dont say it all.
Whoa, man. I'm just defending the South. You makin' us look ignorant. The South didn't start Hip-Hop, that's the Bronx. The South just got somethin' to say. you soundin' like 2pac in 95. Respect the South, but also respect everyone else. I'm from Nashville, and I rep that to the fullest, but you gotta give credit where credit is due
all day my nigga!!! fu¢k all them up north mothafu¢ka5!!!! 5outh 5ide till i die!!!! Blattt!!!! Blatttt!!!!!!
Pimp C was trill, you faggots can't lie, that was one motherfucker who didn't deserve to die. He won't be forgotten, hate to see him pass and oh yeah jae.money likes dicks up his ass.
somebody ban dis clown from these forums
R.I.P. Pimp C
r.i.p. one day your hear.......and then your gone..........damn another blow to hip hop
I just wanna say the rap game will truly miss PIMP C. He was a pioneer of southern rap and did something that a lot of rappers are scared to do... He killed the beef with Camillionaire and Paul Wall....Slim Thug and Mike Jones .... T.I and Lil Flip..... We have him to thank for that... R.I.P PIMP C... Never be another...
MESSAGE TO JAE MONEY-
Uh listen Mr. "Money", in case you have been living under a fucking rock for the past 10 years, or in case your from another planet, Pimp C and UGK as a whole, have influenced not only southern rap, but Hip Hop as a whole. Every time you hear someone say something negative about the south, where is the person doing the hating from? THE EAST COAST! 9 times out of 10 its a east coast dude hating because now the south is finally getting that cake. Think about it: We hustling the same shit yall niggas is hustling: cuss words and gangsta shit. The south has been underrated for YEARS and when they finally get their time to shine what do niggas like YOU do? HATE. and in the words of Katt Williams, "Bitch niggas hate, because they see another nigga doing somthing that THEY cant do." Hip Hop is a big ass neighborhood. The east coast had the block on lock for a long ass time. Dont get mad because the south brought out their own version of "Blue Magic" dope and the world is eating that shit up like crack. You got TI racing with Dale Earnhardt Jr on Chevy commercials and shit. Who is the one of the top 5 dead of alive from NY right now? JAY Z. And who does Jay Z idolize?: UGK. Why do you think that nigga put them on Big Pimping waaaaaaaaaay back in 2000? Because UGK had the pimp and husling rap shit on LOCK in the south. If you went out west you would hear too short and E 40 having the huslte rap on lock. Last I heard, Jay was the ceo of Rocafella AND pres. of DEF JAM? So your own hip hop MVP (hova) looks up to UGK and you STILL hate? You know they say, those who cant DO, teach. So Im assuming you cant rap Jae. And then you posted some bars from Lloyd Banks? LOL are you serious? G Unit isnt even on "Legendary" status yet dogg. I have NEVER heard ANY rappers shout "FREE LLYOD BANKS" OR "FREE 50" in a song. Are you some racist corporate motherfucker working at Sony? Oh no let me guess, you work for Universal right? Because the ONLY people that like when niggas beef in hip hop, are the labels, because they know that beef=record sales. Oh, and incase you didnt know, UGK means UNDERGROUND KINGS. Shit, lloyd banks isnt even a MAINSTREAM PRINCE. And 50 is just Curtis "interscope" Jackson. I dig some of g units shit (young buck). Hell I even liked 50 back when he was on that "whookid, how to rob, be a gentleman" shit. You east coast niggas mad at the south because we getting bread and tv time? Or are yall mad because yall hottest nigga out last summer was MIMS? lol. THIS is why yall are hot? U can sell a mill saying nothing on the track? So the beat is hotter than YOU are? Cmon now. This whole thinng can be summed up in one sentence:
If snap yo' fingers, and superman that hoe is selling more records and getting more spins than "this is why im hot" (just an example) then MAYBE yall (east coast emcees) should put out some QUALITY product that people would actually buy and the radio would actually play. Quit complainging and put the better emcees out. Wheres Royce 5'9'' at? How come yall dont show Tech N9ne no love? When in the fuck is Papoose album gonna drop? And why hasnt Saigons shit popped off yet? Too many niggas got the "Chronic" syndrome. You know, back when dre put out the Chronic in 92-93 and niggas was hating because a West coast emcee was killing it. Well guess what? This is America. And in this country, "he who kills the game the most, wins." Thats how DRAMA murdered the game. Thats how UGK murdered the game. Hell, thats how Master P sold over 100 millions copies over the course of 10 years. And NONE of them niggas hated on ANYBODY. They did it with straight up 100% talent & hustle. And you need to change your name Jae. You cant really get any "jae money" if you hating on everybody.
Shit, and yall (east coast cats) are from the mecca of some of the greatest huslters of american history (mickey barnes, the REAL 50 cent, al capone, bumpy johnson etc). Real niggas like that would be showing love and respect to niggas like Pimp C. Those are YOUR forefathers of hustle, from YOUR part of the country. So what does that say about YOU?
And change your name to Jae Wellfare because niggas with money dont hate. (hell even my Mama know that shit)
RIP Pimp C.
-DubbLife
i can't stand bitches that have to talk about history without bein able to the whole story.
R.I.P Fam
RIP PIMP
propz to my man ironlion7777 real shit spoken homie nuff said
its dom perignon its supposed to bubble...
damn...from free pimp c...to see the pimp free...to r.i.p.
What if Bun B killed Pimp C?? I think...i know its probably not true. it def aint gunna be true. but just imagine if that happened. some crazy shit.