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Rapper Pimp C Found Dead at the Mondrian Hotel on Sunset

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December 4, 2007 at 3:07 PM | by | Comments (3)

TMZ is reporting that rapper Pimp C, one-half of the rap duo UGK and most famous for his spot on Jay-Z's hit song "Big Pimpin'," was found dead in his hotel room this morning at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. He was 33.

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 him dead in bed.

Pimp C. aka Chad Butler apparently did a show on Saturday night with rapper Too Short at the House of Blues next door. There's no word on cause of death just yet.

All this comes at a very bad time for the Mondrian which has been going downhill for a while and for the parent hotel company, Morgans Hotel Group whose former CEO Ed Scheetz found his female acquaintance dead in his Las Vegas condo a few months back, forcing him to resign. Let's hope 2008 is a little less scandalous for these folks.

[Photo: Rolling Stone]

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· Rapper Pimp C Found Dead in Hollywood Hotel Room [TMZ]
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· Ed Scheetz coverage [HotelChatter]

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Re: Rapper Pimp C Found Dead at the Mondrian Hotel

Who?
markj on December 4, 2007 at 3:15 PM #Permalink

Re: Rapper Pimp C Found Dead at the Mondrian Hotel

Too Short sang the song "Blow Job Betty" which I found hilarious in High School. Pimp C? No idea.
CourtneyMay on December 4, 2007 at 7:18 PM #Permalink

Rapper Excel

Too Short, of course.  He made the most excellent rap lyrics in excel list.

He mostly wants to be a baller, though he wouldn't mind being a little bit taller.

I don't think Pimp C is on that list though, which is probably why I have no idea who he is.

markj on December 5, 2007 at 9:04 AM #Permalink

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