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Pimp: The Story of My Life

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They are all cautionary, and in that way they all fail, two of them because they are obviously bullshit, and this one because after reading it I'm sure all the good stuff the author got out of being a pimp outweighs the awfulness that followed. There is no doubt in my mind that being raised by a single parent, living in poverty, and racism all influence incarceration rates. Needless to say, if objectifying and degrading women bothers you, “Pimp” should probably be removed from your to-read list.

I don't even know why in my mind these books are all linked together in someway, maybe because of the voyeuristic thrill a reader would get? It was akin to playing a video game from the 80s where you keep dying on a level and have to start said level over again. That said, there is, despite the blatant misogyny and violence within its pages, something extraordinarily profound about Beck’s book. Iceberg Slim says he has had over 400 whores working for him at various times, no more than a few at one time, but it just shows that the streets burn them out or they just plain got tired of Slim’s shit.Beck, himself, fell in love with the man, claiming “[h]e was the only father I had ever really known.

Worse, you can’t ignore the fact that it’s mostly a story of brutality and exploitation, and in the back of your mind you know you cannot justify it in spite of what the apologists tell you about racism. In 1961, Maupin moved to Los Angeles and changed his name to Robert Beck, taking the last name of the man his mother was married to at the time.In this memoir of his life on the streets, he revels in his successes but also agonizes over his failures.

The author gives you a detailed map of his life and extolls the virtues of the lessons he has learned so that the pimp force may become strong in you. as far as nature, i was never as handsome, charming, dangerous, street-smart, never as attracted to pleasures now, to stupid girls who were, to triumph by manipulation.It was while watching Dave Chappelle's "The Bird Revelation," however, when I decided I NEEDED to read Iceberg Slim sooner rather than later.

Maybe we need to make prostitution legal, and just like the current battle for women’s reproductive rights, boot the men out of the equation. Think of the worst crimes a person can commit: murder, rape, child molestation, pandering drugs, torture, slavery. In 2005, Diane Millman Beck and Beck's three daughters from his previous relationship, Melody, Misty and Camille, filed suit against Holloway House for back payment of royalties.Hip hop artist Fab 5 Freddy, a friend of Beck's, claimed that "Many of Bob's friends were still alive when he wrote that book.

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