Editing Pimp C (section)

==Early life==
Chad Lamont Butler was born on December 29, 1973, in [[Crowley, Louisiana]], but was raised in [[Port Arthur, Texas]]. Butler was the only child of Charleston Butler and Weslyn "Mama Wes" Butler Jacob Monroe.<ref name="boxden.com">{{Cite web|url=https://boxden.com/showthread.php?t=1018261|title=Dec 13 - OBITUARY for: Mr. Chad Lamont Butler "Pimp C"|website=boxden.com|date=13 December 2007 }}</ref> Butler was born prematurely and had numerous health issues, including a birth defect that caused his legs to point inward, which required braces to fix. He also had to be propped up when he slept due to digestive problems.<ref name="jamfeed.com"/> His eyesight was poor, and he almost went blind after a severe bout of [[pinkeye]]. Butler also had [[pneumonia]] at least nine times as a child.<ref name="jamfeed.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamfeed.com/news/2015/09/30-things-i-learned-from-reading-weet-jone-pimp-cs-trill-life-story/|title=30 Things I Learned From Reading '$weet Jone$: Pimp C's Trill Life Story'|date=September 10, 2015|access-date=January 24, 2019|archive-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204000158/http://www.jamfeed.com/news/2015/09/30-things-i-learned-from-reading-weet-jone-pimp-cs-trill-life-story/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As the son of a trumpet player, Butler had an interest in music since childhood: "I come from a classical background, I came up singing [[Italian sonnets]], [[Negro spirituals]], and shit of that nature." Even before studying [[musical notation]] in school, he learned to play many instruments by ear, including piano, trumpet, drums and flugelhorn. His vocal style was once described as "high-voiced, unstable and provocateur, as likely to slap your face as to sing you a love song." Influenced by [[Run-DMC]], he started [[Synthesizer|synthesizing]] beats to rap over after receiving a [[drum machine]] and [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]] one Christmas.<ref name=chicago>{{cite book |last=Westoff |first=Ben |title=Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop |date=2011 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1569766064 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pgc6mAEACAAJ |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>

Butler joined the choir as a teenager and played numerous instruments at school, and after being encouraged by his stepfather Bill Monroe, began writing and creating his own music. Butler was particularly interested in the emerging [[hip hop music|hip hop]] genre as a child, and soon bonded and became friends with Bernard "[[Bun B]]" Freeman over their shared passion for music.<ref name="boxden.com"/>