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Get a scroller sign at networkator.com!Pimp C, the rapper who helped define Southern hip-hop with his group, UGK, was found dead in a hotel room in West Hollywood, Calif., yesterday morning. He was 33.Skip to next paragraph
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Pimp C of UGK in 2005.
His record label, Jive, confirmed the death. No cause was immediately announced.Pimp C, whose real name was Chad Butler, formed UGK with his partner, Bun B, in the late 1980s in Port Arthur, Tex. The group’s first nationally distributed album, “Too Hard to Swallow,†was released in 1992. The next year a song from the album was included on the soundtrack to the film “Menace II Society.†Called “Pocket Full of Stones,†it matched vivid lyrics about the crack-cocaine trade with a leisurely but tough-sounding beat that became the group’s trademark.UGK came to be seen as godfathers of the Houston hip-hop scene, one of the country’s most fertile. The group’s third major-label album, “Ridin’ Dirty,†from 1996, was widely hailed as a hip-hop classic, mixing elegant soul music with thoughtful but unapologetic rhymes about Southern street life.The duo’s biggest moment came in 2000, when Jay-Z invited both rappers to contribute rhymes to “Big Pimpin’,†one of his biggest hits.Pimp C’s entanglements with the law sometimes stymied UGK’s career. In 2002 he was sentenced for a probation violation stemming from an assault charge, and was released in late 2005. While he was locked up Bun B made sure fans did not forget him; for a few years “Free Pimp C†became the unofficial slogan of Houston hip-hop.Earlier this year UGK earned a kind of vindication: The duo’s long-awaited double album, “Underground Kingz,†made its debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, thanks partly to a well-received single, “Int’l Players Anthem,†featuring guest verses from the members of OutKast, just one of many Southern hip-hop groups that owed UGK a big debt.But the expected follow-up — promotional appearances, a nationwide tour, more hit singles — never materialized, and Pimp C’s behavior sometimes seemed erratic. In a much discussed piece for the Southern hip-hop magazine Ozone, he managed to offend the entire city of Atlanta; he later apologized.Pimp C’s rhymes remained meticulous to the end: he could bend or extend a syllable as no one else could. And between the boasts and threats, he often found ways to explain that the hard-knock life was taking its toll. One song from “Underground Kingz†begins with Pimp C softly speaking a prayer. “Dear Lord,†he says, “I know you don’t condone the things I be doing out here in these streets. I hope that, I pray that you can overlook the wrong that I done in my life.â€
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