When faced with the death of a family member or friend, people tend to react and cope in different ways. Some people prefer to cope alone, while others might turn to the words of others.
When rapper Bun B was left to deal with the death of his friend and music partner, Pimp C, he found console in a book he purchased for his mother. Titled The Year Of Magical Thinking, the book Bun B purchased for his mother is an exploration of writer Joan Didion’s marriage, life, and the untimely death of her husband.
"Losing your best friend is like losing a part of yourself,” Bun B explained to King magazine. "I bought Joan Didion's book about losing her husband for my mom. I read some of the excerpts, and one was (Didion) talking about how not a day goes by where there isn't something she wants to talk about with her husband. I kind of understand that - not to say that Pimp C was my husband, by any means.”
In December 2007, Pimp C was found dead in his hotel room from a combination of accidental overdose and sleep apnea.
“…I see cars that I knew he would have loved to drive. I hear songs that he (would've loved) to rap on,” Bun told King. “I hear beats he would have loved to comment on. Even seen women he would've loved to have been with at one time or another in his life. It's just little things that I would love to talk to him about."
