R.I.P. Pimp C
TMZ is reporting that Pimp C, one half of Southern rap legends UGK, was discovered dead in a California hotel room this morning at age 33, causes still unknown.
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.
And….that’s all the details that anyone seems to have so far. (The handful of hip-hop sites currently reporting on the rapper’s death seem to be working off of TMZ’s story, but hey, at least someone was ready with the Wikipedia edit.) This is especially sad considering that Pimp and Bun B were currently riding an elder statesmen high thanks to their well-recieved 2007 comeback album Underground Kingz, a peak in a storied career (1996’s Ridin’ Dirty is a stone classic of Texan gangsta) that also had its share of setbacks, not the least of which being the fact that Pimp C recently spent nearly four years locked up on an assault charge. We’ll be sure to update when more details become available.
UPDATE: The Fader is reporting that UGK’s publicist has confirmed the rapper’s death and that “a formal statement will be released later this afternoon.”
