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On December 4, 2007, Pimp C was found dead at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, California, after Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to a 911 call. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed. This was three days after he performed with Too $hort at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.[2][3]
On February 4, 2008, the Insite received a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. Officials there say the Houston rapper died from an overdose of Promethazine/Codeine "syrup" mixed with a pre-existing medical condition called sleep apnea, which causes a person to stop breathing during sleep. An overdose of this mixture also caused the death Houston producer DJ Screw. Pimp C's death was ruled an accident[4][5].