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Coroner Rules Pimp C's Death An Accident

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Feb 4, 2008 3:31 pm US/Pacific

Coroner Rules Pimp C's Death An Accident

LOS ANGELES (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Pimp C's body was found in December
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Coroner's investigators have determined thedeath of the rapper known as Pimp C was an accident.

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 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.