The hip hop community is still mourning the loss of Pimp C on Tuesday. The news spread like wildfire across blogs and other web-based information sources. Hip hop artists and Houstonians alike packed the phone lines of G-Man's afternoon show on 97.9 The Box. Tribute videos and compilations started popping up on the Net Tuesday afternoon. The first video above is a compilation of photos set to Lil Flip's Pimp C Tribute song. The second......

Update: Yesterday's news of Pimp C's dead shot across the city of Houston via blogs, message boards, and shocked emails. Rumors of foul play, even a mention of fellow rapper Spice 1 also being involved in a shooting, buzzed around town. The two incidents are not thought to be related. Capt. Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Butler had apparently died in bed. "At this time there's no signs of foul......

Houston rapper Pimp C was found dead this morning in his hotel room on LA's Sunset Strip. Pimp C had performed with Too Short on Saturday evening at the House of Blues. Pitchfork reports "L.A. firefighters responded to a 911 call at the Sunset Strip's Mondrian Hotel, where they found the rapper dead in his bed. No information on cause of death has been given at this time." Pimp C, born Chad Butler, was one......

Movies Houstonians Love: Houston Rapper Bun B presents "Style Wars" It's just that Larry Dierker, Barbara Bush, and B-U-N-B! That's right, folks. Houston's hometown rap impresario, and one half of UGK, Bun B joins the Movies Houstonians Love series at the Museum at Fine Arts tonight. Bun will be presenting "Style Wars", regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip-hop culture.An emblem of the spirit that burst forth from underground tunnels, uptown......

We have to admit that we've quickly become fans of the Press's new HouStoned blog — not so much because the posts are well-written, not so much because it featured boobs, and not even so much because there was a post today on a coming collaboration between Pimp C and Quanell X, a situation that gave us a headache when we tried to figure it out. No, what really hooked us was something the HouStoned......

Since rapper and Port Arthur native Pimp C was jailed in 2002 for aggravated assault, the slogan "Free Pimp C" has shown up time and again in videos, concerts and awards shows. And now it looks like C's advocates will have to find a new cause: Pimp C, aka Chad Butler, will be paroled within 30 days. Pimp C was sentenced to eight years in jail for falling behind on community service after he pleaded......