Shifty Shellshock

Seth Brooks Binzer (born August 23, 1974), better known by his stage name Shifty Shellshock, is an American musician, best known for being a co-founder and front man of the rap rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit song "Butterfly".

He has also had a solo music career and appeared in the reality television series Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober House 1 and 2.

Binzer met fellow Crazy Town frontman, Bret Mazur, in 1992; they started collaborating under the name The Brimstone Sluggers.

By early 1999, they formed the group Crazy Town.

In 2000, Crazy Town was signed to tour with Ozzfest; however, they were forced to withdraw after only two weeks when Binzer was arrested after he threw a chair through a window while he was drunk.

The band's single, "Butterfly", was a global hit.

It peaked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and in several other countries including Austria, Denmark, and Norway.

The success of the single prompted sales of their debut album, The Gift of Game, to exceed 1.5 million.

In a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone, Binzer admitted to spending three months in the California Institution for Men following an attempted burglary, to selling and using recreational drugs over a period of several years, as well as to struggling with drug addiction.

Their 2002 follow-up album, Darkhorse, was a commercial failure by comparison, and the band broke up shortly after its release.

Binzer married Melissa Clark in 2002.

They have a son named Halo.

Binzer released his own first solo album, Happy Love Sick in 2004.

He released two singles from the album: "Slide Along Side" a pan-European hit for Shifty that peaked at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart with moderate chart success in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.

His follow-up single, "Turning Me On", did not chart.

Crazy Town announced they had reformed in 2007, and performed live for the first time in five years in August 2009.

Binzer dated a woman named Tracy in 2008.

They have a son named Gage.

In 2009, Binzer founded Platinum Status Records, though the label did not release material from any other artists.

In 2010, Binzer fronted the group, Shifty and The Big Shots.

They released their first single, "Save Me", on July 6, 2010, and followed it up with the single "City of Angels".

Binzer began a relationship with Jasmine Lennard in 2010.

In 2011, Clark filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

On March 27, 2011, police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance between the pair.

Binzer was arrested for outstanding warrants and released later that day.

In a video interview with TMZ.com, Binzer stated the disturbance was simply a noise complaint, and that the outstanding warrant was for counter-assaulting a security guard who was using unnecessary force when trying to throw him out of a club.

Lennard and Binzer announced their engagement in 2012.

Binzer was arrested in February 2012 for battery and cocaine possession, and sentenced to three years' probation; his relationship with Lennard ended shortly thereafter.

Binzer and Lennard have a son named Phoenix.

In 2013, Lennard asked a California court for exclusive custody of their son, claiming Binzer smoked crack in front of him and once left a crack pipe in his room.

In 2022, Binzer was dating childhood friend and Punky Brewster actress Soleil Moon Frye when he was arrested for DUI in Los Angeles.

Celebrity Rehab 1

They released their third album, The Brimstone Sluggers, in 2015.

During Crazy Town's hiatus, Binzer collaborated with British producer and musician Paul Oakenfold, contributing vocals to Oakenfold's hit single "Starry Eyed Surprise".

The track was for Oakenfold's first solo studio album Bunkka.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in the US, Binzer said that the track known as "Starry Eyed Surprise" was created after the pair met at a Crazy Town show.

I am a big fan of his music and we just kicked back and talked and said that we should do something.

I already laid the rough vocals for it and (we are) going to go in right when I'm done with this tour and finish it.

The song peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the UK Singles Chart in Oakenfold's native United Kingdom.

In the latter country, it became Binzer's first top ten song as a solo artist.