LOS ANGELES, CA Captain Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's office
says Monday that 33-year-old Chad Butler suffered from sleep apnea
and his condition reacted badly with codeine-containing cough
medicine he took. Butler's body was found in a West Hollywood hotel
room in December.
Winter says the levels of promethazine and codeine cough syrup
in the rapper's system "were not that of an overdose."
Pimp C, a native of Port Arthur, Texas, was one-half of the
pioneering Southern rap duo UGK, or Underground Kingz. The group's
self-titled CD topped the Billboard charts last year.
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