Women can have all the sex they want for free, but they risk prison the moment they ask for a fan of C notes in exchange for it. Again, we are a capitalist country, and yet women can not legally receive renumeration for providing the service for a very substantial demand. I had someone make a point to me recently that by making prostitution illegal we were actually depriving women of a lucrative means of making a living. At 18 years old, Iceberg Slim, then known as Young Blood, decides to become a pimp. The pharmaceutical companies can make trillions pumping out drugs to a population who doesn’t need them, but if a drug dealer does the same thing, he goes to jail. A banker can write a loan and front load all the interest, but a loan shark who does the same thing is breaking the law. The world has never been a fair place, and the rules are never applied evenly. I would have more sympathy for Iceberg Slim, trying to find the best way to hustle, if he hadn’t been such a brutal asshole. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs.” ”Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now.
This unfortunate incident was only the beginning of a life spent on the wrong side of the law. This happened during the ludicrous years of prohibition, he was supplying the liquor that his fellow students were demanding. What are the rules for capitalism? Supply and demand. Iceberg Slim, AKA Robert Beck, attended Tuskegee University until he was expelled for selling bootleg liquor. They watch and wait for his downfall.Ī pimp is the loneliest bastard on Earth. It thrills ‘em when the pimp makes mistakes. He knows they are still asleep.all whores have one thing in common just like the chumps humping for the white boss. It’s alright, this book, like its writer, is rough enough to survive outside in the cold streets.“A pimp is happy when his whores giggle. Still, because of his back ground, style, and subject matter, the literary world has denied him access into its pristine halls.
He is an amazing writer who creates fire out of printed words. While this book gets plenty of readerships in select circles, Iceberg slim is a bit of an underground writer. This book is perfect for anyone who enjoys biographies, crime literature, noir, minority literature, and radical American history. Pimp isn’t just his story it’s a part of American history that will always be shamefully brushed under the rug. He tells it because he lived it, and it’s a story that should not fall into obscurity. Iceberg doesn’t tell his story asking for forgiveness.
His words cut the reader’s brain like a switchblade that had been used to chop a line of cocaine.
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You can feel his mind at work, scheming on how to get the most money, how to break the most hoes, and keep it all together in his head. It’s a deeply psychological and graphic account of how the pimping game works behind the scenes. This book is dripping with the sleaziness of the streets. By his late teens, Iceberg is out on the streets turning out young girls into prostitutes. Iceberg grows up fast to the realities of racism, destitution, drug abuse, and crime. It was a time when the race divisions cut deep into the social flesh of this country. He begins the story of his life in the 1920’s when America was radically different from now.
Iceberg lays bare the disgusting world of prostitution in all its ugliness and allure in his own words. Pimp by Iceberg Slim is a savagely honest autobiographical story by a man who was fully immersed in the cut-throat world of pimping.
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