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According to his memoir, Pimp, Slim started pimping at 18 and continued until age 42. The book claims that during his career he had over 400 women, both black and white, working for him. He said he was known for his frosty temperament and for staying calm in emergencies, which, combined with his slim build, earned him the street name Iceberg Slim.
Aug 19, 2015 · Sociologists, anthropologists, and linguists of the ghetto had granted “Pimp” a certain ethnographic authority when it first appeared; after hip-hop became a subject of academic study,...
Aug 4, 2015 · Without once dismissing his subject’s misogyny, which Iceberg Slim would later repent, he sets “Pimp” in a “long African-American autobiographical tradition, from the slave narratives of...
2 days ago · In his book of essays and vignettes, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (1971), he asserts his belief that the drive to become a pimp derives from a disturbed mother-son relationship: “I am convinced that most pimps require the secretly buried fuel of Mother hatred to stoke their fiery vendetta of cruelty and merciless exploitation against whores ...
Robert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, sold more than six million books before he died in 1992. At one time he was said to be the best-selling African American novelist ever. Before he became a writer Beck was a “ manager ” of prostitutes, or a pimp for nearly 30 years.
Aug 4, 2015 · From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of “street lit” masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of “blaxploitation” culture.
YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 108. THIS DOCUMENTARY examines the legendary life of Iceberg Slim, notorious pimp and author of 7 ground-breaking books. Insightful interviews...
