Crazy Town

Crazy Town

Crazy Town is an American rap rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1995. The group is also known as CXT and is associated with alternative rock, nu metal, rap rock, rapcore and rock. Its line-up has included Shifty Shellshock, Bret ‘Epic’ Mazur, Adam Goldstein, Anthony Valli, Doug Miller, Krayge Tyler, Kyle Hollinger, Ahmad Alkurabi, DJ AM, James Bradley Jr. and Rust Epique.

The band forms around Bret “Epic” Mazur and Seth Brooks Binzer, known as Shifty Shellshock. It builds its early profile through its debut album The Gift of Game, which appears in 1999, and the single “Butterfly”, which reaches number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2000. The album sells more than 1.6 million copies.

Crazy Town’s second studio album, Darkhorse, appears in 2002, but does not match the commercial impact of the debut. The group breaks up in 2003, then reforms in 2007 under Mazur and Binzer. In 2015, it releases a third album, The Brimstone Sluggers, and later issues the EP Flirting with Disaster. Mazur leaves in 2017, after which Binzer performs as Crazy Town X. The band remains active until 2024 and is associated with Krushkill Records.