NEWS: PIMP C FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL ROOM (update)
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
TMZ is reporting that Pimp C, real name Chad Butler — and one half of the rap duo UGK, was found dead in a hotel room Tuesday morning. It has also been reported that he died of natural causes.
L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find the 33 year old rapper dead in the room. [SOURCE]
The story is still developing and we will update as soon as any real info comes out.
Our condolences go out to his family and Bun B.
UPDATE:
Jive Records just sent out the following statement regarding Pimp C’s death:
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 (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.









373 Comments
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76.
blk dds
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Lean? Cheese?
I am NOT familiar with these terms.
Cheese meaning MONEY is all I know.
77.
ROUNDNBRWN
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY BUT **ESPECIALLY** TO BUN B. HE KEPT THIS MAN ALIVE WHILE HE WAS LOCKED DOWN. DAMN….
I KNOW IT’S GONNA BE HARD FOR BUN TO “KEEP ON PUSHIN’ “, BUT I PRAY HE DOES MAKE IT THRU THIS VERY SAD SITUATION…..
78.
DONT MATTER
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
RIP PIMP C
very very sad to hear this
only GOD can save us
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IN ALL THINGS, HONOR THE NAME OF JESUS
79.
neekababy
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
OMG…
Someone had posted a bulletin about this on myspace and I screamed SAY IT AIN’T SO!! and ran right over to concreteloop to find out if it was true.
I’m soooo sad to hear this. This was totally unexpected! I send my condolenses out to his entire family, Bun B and the rest of the rap world. This is a HUGE loss.
UGK 4-ever!!!
80.
ROUNDNBRWN
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
R I P PIMP C
R I P
R I P!!!!!!!!!!!!
81.
mookie
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
rip 2 pimp c 1 luv
82.
DONT MATTER
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
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83.
DONT MATTER
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
tried to make a cross but it aint postin right
RIP Pimp C
84.
Val™
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ Blk DDS - Lean is a drink….Its usually mixed with Sprite, & Liquid hydrocodine,(sp) which comes in Purple, Yellow and Red…. This has been a popular drink - mostly in the south…. Its called “Lean or Purple Stuff”…. And, that’s what it does….it will make you LEAN while you’re on it…. SAD - to say the least….
Cheese is a supposedly a new thing that’s getting very HUGE in Texas and is killing more and more people day by day…. Its Tylenol 3 and Herion mixed together….and, they SHOOT it….
This crap is just awfull!………..SMH
85.
boombox
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
man the thought of not hearing them together anymore…
RIP
86.
Simone
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
This is so sad man………. I live in houston and the coverage is super sad I hope the family can be consoled at this time
87.
foxxy380*Out My Socks
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I’m pushin’ down the ave. no one lookin’ good
I’m baggin’ stones niccas diamonds up against that wood.
I’m pushin’ down the ave. no one lookin’ good
I’m baggin’ stones niccas diamonds up against that wood.
RIP C
Bun keep ya head up boo!
88.
Intrigue216
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I am at a lost for words right now. I always loved UGK, I was in shock like I heard a family member died or something. This is so sad and lets me know that every minute I’m alive is precious. Please don’t take life for granted because you never know if you will be here the next day.
R.I.P. Pimp C
89.
jamaican gal
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
wow..this is a complete shock.. RIP TO PIMP C……i really loved them….plzz more information on his death..was he murdered…bad health..what???
90.
foxxy380*Out My Socks
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ #73 Val, yeah hun. I know exactly what you talking about.
91.
Val™
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
heroin*
92.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Wow !
My prayers go out to his friends and family.
93.
igotitfrommymama
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
yea its true. im dating someone affliated with rapalot. they are on their way to la at this moment to check things out and gather all his music from the studios and jewelry and etc. my gut told me that his wige (or gf) called them up over the weekend and wanted someone to go out there and get him cause he was uncontrolable and she was scared something was going to happen (obviously an overdose.)
94.
KenzyKenken
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
r u serious? omg..what the hell, man?
95.
Miss Terrell
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
HE LEFT US TOO SOON. R.I.P PIMC C ONE DAY YOUR HERE AND THE NEXT YOUR GONE
96.
Val™
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ Foxxy 380….Girl, it is just something else…. I’m still sitting here in str8 disbelief….
97.
Nothing But Love
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Damn everybodys dropping like files, but i suppose God never said life was gonna be easy or fair after Adam and Eve sinned.
98.
DIONNA
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
R.I.P. PIMP C (CHAD)
“ONE DAY YOUR HERE BABY AND THEN YOUR GONE……THE NEXT DAY YOU GONE”
UGK
99.
Mz Coko
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Suspect…
100.
Simone
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
“You can smell my cologne and a fight come with that” famous line by Pimp C loss for words….
101.
TINA
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
WOW THESE PEOPLE KEEP DYING ONE BY ONE…..RIP TO PIMP C AND MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. I HOPE HE’S IN A BETTER PLACE.
102.
G-Roc
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Pimp C? Man he is a legend in the rap game.
Man people are going left and right. This is all the more reason why ppl need to get their life straight cuz you never know when your like is coming to an end.
If you need to get saved contact me over at TSG. I’ll walk you thru the steps of salvation.
103.
nervousbride10/13/07
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
RIP Pimp C, my prayers and thoughts go out to his family, friends and fans. He just came home and not to have the chance to live his life to the fullest is truly sad. Another wake up call for us, keep God first, we never know when it’s our time
104.
Speechless....
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I am…in shock……
105.
Mallato
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Hey Val… Where you been?
Thanks for the Education I did not know what lean was I have never heard of it. I live here in Dallas and they are always talking about cheese on the news.
106.
Such Magnificence
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
#84 OMG Tylenol 3 and Herion???!!! Thats crazy…what ever happened to good ole fashioned alcohol or just smoking weed??? Drugs are so wack…I don’t understand the fascination with them at all.
Anyways, RIP Pimp C…you will be missed.
107.
african_queen
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
As a houstom native im deeply saddend because i heard this during school im just finding out and im deeply troubled by this…im hearing that he overdosed or he was shot idk but may he rest in peace a true rapper that represented well.
108.
seductiverose
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Just heard about this on xm radio… I seriously just almost choked on my food listening to this right after I was rockin out to “Int’l Players Anthem”… Major condolences to his fam and 2 Bun-B. It was just the other day that they (UGK) were callin’ this year their comeback yr… Big loss in the hip-hop world right now…
dueces
109.
I's married nah!!!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
RIP Pimp C. My prayers go out to his family, friends, Bun B and his fans
Just another example of how we never know when our time is up. Keep God in your life.
110.
TENDERONI
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
OMG..R.I.P. PIMP C..OMG..I LOVED HIM TO PEICES ,HE WAS SOOOO FINE TO ME..
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!!!
111.
PIMPC
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I will always remember your shit talking ass.
I just can’t believe I have to now see in a casket.
Love Always
Ms Port Arthur
112.
HOWCOME
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Wow this is unbelievable! People please live you life to the fullest tomorrow is never promise! RIP Pimp C!
113.
Htown
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
RIP Pimp C…Houston will certainly miss you
114.
realstateofmind
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
#19 Amen in Jesus Name
Condolencses to Pimp C family and fans and Bun B. This is such a tragic loss to the HIP HOP community. It’s almost scary how many people in the limelight we have lossed in 2007. No one is untouchable, not even celebs. Now it the time to get your life right. Just ask Jesus to come into your heart and he will. We don’t have to wait until we are a perfect people to turn to Jesus because that will never be. But I urge you to turn to Jesus in this hour it is too much going on in this world. Again i say Satan is taking people one by one so that we cannot fulfill our purpose here on earth. I ain’t at all a sacra relgious person but i know GOD is real and only he can save us.
115.
Val™
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Hey Mallato!!! Chic, poppin in and out… lol…. Hope all is well with ya :-)….
Girl, my sister lives in Arlington, Texas and ironically, I mean - JUST this past Sunday, she and I were talking on the phone talking about all the goings and what not there in Arlington and the Dallas Ft Worth area….She metnioned to me then about Cheese and asked me had I heard of it…..I told her I hadn’t heard of and it hasn’t made its way to Jackon as of yet…..(Well, it hasn’t become an epidemic or anything that I know of b/c my bro work for Jackson Police Dept…So, I’m usually in the loop and know as to what’s goong on)…Anywho - ….She went on to tell me how is was starting to kill so many young folks….. Wow, so you saw the thing on the news about Cheese too, huh?….Its truly sad and erie @ the same time….
116.
DropKick
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
“I’m eating so many shrimps, I got iodine poisioning…”
My man was on a recent tear into Russell, Ne-yo and a few others. He also pulled a few wack rappers hold card, but this is certainly tragic news.
Pimp C, one of the true, blue, bonafide players from the south. Internationally known, nationally recognized and locally accepted.
“ooo-oooo-ooh-oooo-ooo-oooh ooo-oooo-oooh-ooooh, I chose you ba-by”
H-town stand up, a legend is checking out!
117.
blk dds
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Does he have a B-day coming up? Because TMZ says that he is 33. From my calculations if he was born in ‘73 he should be 34.
Correct me if I’m wrong but………………………
118.
H-Town
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Pimp C you will be missed it’s just soooo sad to be losing all of these Down South Rappers. Fat Pat, DJ Screw, Big Hawk, Big Moe and Pimp C were the best at what they did! But RIP you all will be greatly missed and I send my condolences to their loved ones.
119.
Val™
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Excuse my typos yall… I’m a lil torn ret nah…
120.
Ms Poo in Texas
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@VAL
just to not get it confused. I also live in Dallas, not sure what part #105 is from but we sip lean (syrup) in D-Town and I hope and pray that wasn’t the cause of his death.
UGK are legends and this loss will truly be felt all across the South.
R.I.P. PIMP C
Keep ya head up BUN
Trill Fam and Rap A Lot stay up.
121.
JUDAH
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I’ll wait for the “specifics” to come out, but the brother made a major mistake outting the industry. He was not supposed to say those things about the homosexual activity in the entertainment industry. It’s one thing for a person like myself to bring out that information in the Spirit, but when someone with first hand access to these people says these things, people listen because he’s wordly like them. That homosexual, masonic cabal is very real and is very powerful.
122.
J Tig The Great
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Damn……. I think Texas has a curse…… Everybody is dying. I’m from Beaumont, which is right near Port Arthur where UGK is from… I’m hurt and shocked……..!!!! I just heard it was a Cocaine overdose… don’t take my word for it, but that’s just what I heard………… “Texas Muth F**** that’s where I stay” -Pimp C
123.
igotitfrommymama
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
AND JUST A LIL FYI A LOT OF PPL ARE DRINKING THAT “LEAN” AND TAKING THEM VIAGRAS AT THE SAME TIME. LEAN SLOWS YOUR HEART RATE WHILE VIAGRA SPEEDS UP YOUR HEART RATE. THIS TRIGGERS HEARTATTACKS, ETC. NOT AT ALL SAYING THIS WAS THE CAUSE…
124.
ThinkAboutIt
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Lord Have Mercy…
Prayers for his family and friends. May they find comfort and strength in the memories and love they shared with this brother. Rest Easy.
125.
blackgyrl30
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ Judah please explain to me exactly your point in sayin that????
126.
mofinest04
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I can’t believe this. Rest in peace Pimp C.
127.
Nothing But Love
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
The peope on that TMZ website really need to go kill themsleves.
128.
YOOO
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
THE BIBLE SAIDS THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH
129.
shelene
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
UGK is my favorite rap group, in this entire country. I am not just saying it because he died. Well hard as they jam, I am sure we all love UGK. I hate this happend, when people @ the job started standing up saying it, I didnt believe it til I googled
BUN keep ya head up, I love you and want you to know today…. You are my favorite rapper ini the world. Lyrically you cannot be touched, and havent got the credit deserved. You most definitely belong in the same league as 50 and Jay-Z. I love you and I am happy we had the opportunity to FREE THE PIMP… RIP PIMP C
130.
vexxed
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Marvin Gaye said it best, What’s Goin’ On?
RIP
131.
mi
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
DAMN…..THAS SO SAD..
R.I.P
132.
JUDAH
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@125
I’m not saying anything substantive yet sis. I will wait. I believe that his death has something to do with his comments about the homosexuality in the rap industry, but we’ll see.
133.
Aries
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Damn this is FUCKED up. My Sister was in love with Pimp. C I am truly sorry to hear this! Has there been any news on what the cause was? My prayers go out to his family!
134.
Mallato
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Hey Val….. I still love your hair. Thanks for the education again. Yeah cheese is killing alot of young people out here.
What happen to joining the girl scouts or boy scouts? Now its like let’s try this drug or that drug when I get bored I read. MAN!!!!!!!
135.
LC
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
“Hol’ Up!” thats what he used to say.
RIP Sweet Jones aka Chad Butler
I can’t take it… Pimp C was a living legend. I’m so happy to enjoy and damn near worship UGK. I’m from the ATL but now residing in Frisco, TX now. But I’ma have to run out and get their last cd I missed. He always kept it real on his lyrics, gotta luv dat.
136.
morena
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Rest In Peace PimpC.
137.
ThinkAboutIt
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
#76 - BLK DDS
Cheese is the slang name for a mixture of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM. The substances are combined and come out looking much like parmesan cheese.
I hate to put this article in this post BECAUSE I AM NOT SPECULATING ON THIS MAN’S DEATH — but folk need to know, esp., parents since young folks are being targeted and can buy a hit with their lunch money.
Heroin drug targets middle school students
Posted: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:03 PM
By Don Teague, NBC News Correspondent
DALLAS – I interviewed a 10th grader the other day, and I can’t get her story out of my head.
Fifteen-year-old girls usually don’t have much to say that adults would consider “newsworthy.” I should know – my oldest daughter is 15, and while I care deeply about the mundane dramas in her life, I doubt reporters would line up to relay those dramas to the world.
But Mariela Torres’ story shook me. She’s a cute, bright girl. Everybody seems to like her. It was one of Mariela’s friends who first offered her “cheese” when she was just 13 years old. Mariela had never used any drugs before that day. “Cheese,” she was told, wasn’t really a drug – it would just make her feel happy.
Here’s what Mariela didn’t know.
Cheese is the slang name for a mixture of black tar heroin and Tylenol PM. The substances are combined and come out looking much like parmesan cheese. The resulting product is sold for as little as $2 per hit.
Kids in the Dallas-area are buying “cheese” with their lunch money, according to media reports. They’re snorting the stuff up their noses – often at school – and dying in alarming numbers, according to the Dallas County medical office.
A recent study by the Dallas Independent School district determined that more than 5,000 kids have tried cheese. More than two dozen have died of overdoses. Most, like Mariela, first take the drug in middle school.
That’s shocking. Middle school students are being targeted by drug dealers and turned into heroin addicts before they reach high school.
The lucky ones, like Mariela, find treatment. After more than a year of use, she was put through detox, then more than three months of rehab. I visited the rehab center Mariela attended. It was filled with kids. The average age is 15, but there were heroin addicts there as young as 12. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating.
Today, Mariela is drug free, but she knows people who are still using.
“It makes me want to go do it again,” she told me. “But I know I shouldn’t, because I don’t want to go back through the same things I was going through.”
Mariela is a good kid. I could tell that immediately. She smiles freely and looks you in the eye when she speaks. She has her whole life ahead of her. She’s even thinking of trying out for her high school soccer team.
I pray she makes it through her recovery and get the chance to play.
138.
asbury
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Get Throwed….Pimp C p.a trill nigga, polo fuck that hillfigga made myself a ghetto star on the slab sipping bar
smokin weed set in white, those other niggas shit dont come back right, thats how niggas get popped tryin to get that cheaper price. watch ya paper guard ya life
cause most of these niggas aint living right, keep ya pistol fuck a fight cause niggas I kill that err night I keep my mind on my money fuck that fame big face hunters keepin the game hittin the corners in the candy thang sitting on leather grippin the grain
139.
Danala
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
This is so sad. Rest in peace he was a great rapper . May God watch over his family and friends.
140.
blackgyrl30
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
okay Judah I hear you…its just that a man is dead and to bring up his mistakes and flaws(and we all have them no one is exempt) is just plain disrespectful…
CHAD BUTLER RIP…
UGK 4 LIFE BABY!!!!
141.
Have Not Thought of a New User Name
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ # 84 Val
Wow that stuff sounds crazy ! Mixing herion and tylenol. I’m from the Bay and I not really into the hole hyphy stuff but I know the kids mix exstacy (sp?) and some other stuff to make their hyphy juice…wow what is the world comming to.
142.
ya girl jo!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
*my boss just walked over to get me from under the desk this news is too painfull*!!!
I’m hurt..that was my peoples…im so just man…this can’t be life…he was so cool and just real can I get some info cause I’m goin crazy…..WHY GOD>>>WHY GOD??….*please GOD help me deal with this and soften my heart*
~R.I.P.~
PIMP C
(love also ya down bottom)
143.
PAT
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
Leave that cocaine alone people. He died from a cocaine related drug overdose. RIP Chad Butler, I wish you would had left the drugs alone.
144.
Gem
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I usually don’t comment in serious topics because…what can you say? But, this one…mannnn…UGK was my favorite group… everyone in the south loved them…EVERYONE. UGK and Scarface…
He will be missed…cause him and Bun B truly were the best, there’s NOBODY ALIVE who can really get on their level…as far as flow and delivery of gangster music…NOBODY… and I’m sorry he’s gone.
145.
Cmeez
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
@ 143
Do you know that for a fact?
146.
Janae
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
my heart is hurting for Pimp C’s family as well as Bun B.
Rest In Peace Pimp!
147.
NeshaNesha
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
DAMN!!!! R.I.P…I am really at a loss for words. My heart goes out to his family, and to everyone that loved him.
Always remember to let the people that are close and dear to your heart that you love them, because you never know if that will be that last time you see or speak to that person. Tell people how much they mean to you, and never take a person for granted.
148.
POOH
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
DAMN AN OVERDOSE I CANT BELIEVE IT. I GUESS THE CONCERT IN MD IS OFF NOW, I LOVE THAT NIGGA MAY HE REST IN PEACE!!
149.
Gem
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
#145
he liked cocaine…he rapped about liking it…I don’t know if that’s true though…
150.
Cmeez
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 /
I’m learning some stuff today on CL. “Cheese”, “Lean”. Still working on that “masonic cabal”…
RIP Pimp
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