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Shifty Shellshock, the frontman of rap rock band Crazy Town, has died at 49, in keeping with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. The musician died at dwelling on Monday (June 24), and the reason for dying remains to be pending investigation.
Shellshock was born Seth Binzer on Aug. 23, 1974. He met Loopy City co-founder Bret Mazer in 1992, and the band went on so as to add varied members, together with Adam Goldstein (higher often known as DJ AM, who died from an accidental overdose in 2009), Rust Epique, Antonio Lorenzo Valli, James Bradley Jr., amongst others. The band launched its debut album The Present of Recreation in November 1999. It peaked at No. 9 on the all-genre Billboard 200 on the chart dated March 3, 2001, and remained on the tally for 34 weeks.
The set’s first two singles, “Poisonous” and “Darkside,” did not chart, however the third time was the attraction for Loopy City. “Butterfly” — which sampled the Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers’ “Fairly Little Ditty” — arrived in October 2000 because the album’s third single and climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Sizzling 100, the place it held the highest spot for 2 weeks with its catchy refrain: “Come my woman, come come my woman / You’re my butterfly, sugar child/ Come my woman, you’re my fairly child/ I’ll make your legs shake, you make me go loopy.”
In all, the monitor remained on the chart for 23 weeks and is the group’s greatest hit to today. (The monitor made Billboard‘s One-Hit Wonders of the 2000s listing in 2014; the band didn’t land one other track on the tally throughout its profession.)
Sophomore album Darkhorse was launched in November 2002 and debuted at No. 120. It failed to succeed in any increased, and fell off the chart after one week. The band broke up shortly after.
Binzer was open about his struggles with substance abuse. He appeared on VH1’s Superstar Rehab With Dr. Drew in 2008, and VH1’s Sober Home from 2009 to 2010.
He’s survived by his youngsters Halo, Gage and Phoenix.
