What happened to P. Fluid? 24-7 Spyz frontman dead at 64

P. Fluid, renowned as the co-founder and former frontman of 24-7 Spyz, has passed away. He was 64. Legally known as Peter Forrest, the vocalist was found pummelled to death inside his own ambulette on January 13, and officials have since ruled the death a homicide.

The '90s rock frontman was driving his vehicle at the time, though concerns arose when he failed to show up for pickups and answering his phone. Reportedly, a co-worker located his vehicle with GPS, and upon arriving at the scene, they found his front window broken down. The singer was lying face down at the back.

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The life and legacy of P. Fluid as officials find him dead in an ambulette

Officials have reportedly determined that P. Fluid was beaten to death. Per NME, Forrest had been working for the company that owned the ambulette, and he reportedly sustained “trauma around the body." Fox News reported that his body had been discovered by EMS workers, while the cops have ruled that the vehicle had been abandoned in the area for a while.

P. Fluid co-founded the band in the South Bronx back in 1986, and in two years, they dropped their debut album, Harder Than You. As for the lead single, it was a cover of Jungle Boogie by Kool & The Gang. By 1990, they returned with Gumbo Millennium, culminating in the band opening for Jane’s Addiction on their Ritual de lo Habitual tour.

Following that tour, the vocalist parted ways with the band. Loudwire claims that 24-7 Spyz had its “greatest success in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s delivering a brand of funk metal representative of the difference influences the band picked up in their native Bronx.” The heavy metal band was most known for their blend of heavy metal, reggae, and hard rock.

Forrest eventually formed a new band, the P. Fluid Foundation, though he later returned to 24-7 Spyz for Temporarily Disconnected, which came out in 1995. Not long after, he parted ways with the band once again before he formed yet another band called BlkVampires. Forrest was also the co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, formed in New York in 1985.

“Music was his life and advancing Black rock was his life,” the singer's former girlfriend Chiedza Makonnen told the Daily News. “He was passionate about that. He really helped pave that road for a lot of people to understand that Black musicians aren’t just rappers or R&B or soul, we’re rockers too.”

She went on, as reported by Pop Culture:

“I don’t know him to have had any enemies. He was a musician, he wasn’t that type of guy. I never saw Peter in a fight,” Makonnen said. “He didn’t deserve that. He is the last person you would think would pass like that. He just wasn’t involved in stuff.”

Jimi Hazel, who replaced Forrest when he left 24-7 Spyz, spoke to Rolling Stone about the departed:

“He brought a sense of reckless abandon, but in a fun way. He was climbing on the rafters. When he wanted to sing, he could sing. But he got more into screaming and shouting. What an interesting dude. I’m grateful to him because if we had not met up on the street in 1986, 24/7 Spyz would not have happened. You either loved him or hated him, but if you loved him, you loved him unconditionally. He was a motherf*cker, but he was a good motherf*cker.”

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At the time of writing, no other details are known about P. Fluid's death, including the motive and potential suspects.