![]() The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar for today's black community. A trip through hell by one man who lived to tell the tale. This is the heyday of the pimp, the hard-won pride and glory, small though it may be the beginnings of pimp before it was dragged in front of the camera, before pimp juice and pimp style. ![]() If you thought Hustle & Flow was the true pimp story, this book is where it all began. Only he could tell this story and make the reader feel it. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Slim's life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. Iceberg Slim: Lost Interviews with the Pimp - Book Two - Kindle edition by Whitaker, Ian, Slim, Iceberg, Ice-T, Juan, Bishop, Jones, Quincy, Beck, Camille. Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp shows Slim's transformation from pimp to the author of 7 classic books. Iceberg Slim's story is now depicted in a major motion picture distributed worldwide. By telling the story of one man's struggles and triumphs in an underground world, this book shows the game doesn't change - it just has a different swagger. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping until he was 42. The book that brought black literature to the streets is back to show the Hip Hop generation what it's all about, where they came from. Pimp Iceberg Slim, aka Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and was initiated into the life of the pimp at age 18. ![]() Summary: Before Hip Hop, there was the pimp. ![]()
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