‘Butterfly’ band’s frontman found dead at age 49
The manager for Butterfly rockers Crazy Town has confirmed that the band’s frontman Shifty Shellshock died as a result of a drug overdose.
“The cause of death was a combination of prescription drugs and street purchased drugs,” Hubberman continued. “Shifty was a friend and really wanted to get himself fixed — unfortunately no one had the exact tools to do this, myself included.”
Crazy Town’s platinum-selling debut album, The Gift of the Game, was released in 1999 with Butterfly, which sampled the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Pretty Little Ditty, leading to the band’s breakout the following year. On the track, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Shellshock rapped the memorable lyrics “Come my lady, come-come my lady, You’re my butterfly, sugar baby.”
Crazy Town got back together in 2007 and released their final LP in 2015, The Brimstone Sluggers, which failed to make an impact on the charts.
In 2017, after co-founder Bret “Epic” Mazur exited the band for good, Shellshock changed the name of the group to Crazy Town X.
Binzer was also hospitalized in 2012 after falling into a coma, according to Variety.
After his recovery, he pledged he was turning his life around. “I’m good. I’m clean. I’m happy,” he told TMZ.
But a year later, Shellshock’s ex Jasmine Lennard accused him of smoking crack in their kid’s bedroom.
According to Variety, Shellshock is survived by his three children, Halo, Gage and Phoenix.