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I know there is always lots of hype from these young rappers that claim to be a pimp.  Lets be real.  Pimping ain’t about making it rain.   That ain’t pimpin that’s simpin.  Let me repeat you might call yourself a pimp because you got lot of girls, but your simp if you spend money on these hoes.  So guess who just got pimped!!!  LOL, these hoes are the real the pimps for taking your cash out your pockets.

So now lets get back to the roots and find out how the pimp game really goes down.  So let me share with you a guy named Iceberg Slim.

From Wikipedia:

Best known as an author of gritty tales of street life and hustling, Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck) sold over six million copies of his books, the most popular being Pimp: The Story of My Life. Since many authors before him had seen fit to record and release spoken word albums, Slim followed suit in 1976 with Reflections, which found him reciting his lurid vignettes over suitably funky backing from the Red Holloway Quartet. The street-tough pimp persona projected by Slim proved highly influential to hip-hop, especially two artists who paid tribute to him through their own names, Ice-T and Ice Cube. Slim passed away in 1992 at the age of 73.

So you wanna find out how the real pimp game is?  Wanna know why people like ICE-T and Bishop Magic Don Juan honors.

Quotes from Iceberg Slim’s book:

A good pimp doesn’t get paid for screwing. He gets his pay-off for always having the right thing to say to a whore right on lightning tap. I knew my four whores were flapping their ears to get my reaction to this beautiful bitch. A pimp with an overly fine bitch in his stable has to keep his game tight. Whores constantly probe for weakness in a pimp.

I fitted a scary mask on my face and said, in a low, deadly voice, “Bitch, are you insane? No bitch in this family calls any shots or muscles me to do anything. Now take your stinking yellow ass upstairs to a bath and some shut-eye. Get in the street at noon like I told you.”

A pimp must be skilled at playing on a woman’s vulnerabilities. In fact, he assesses her psychological state to determine if she is a good candidate for exploitation. The true talents of a pimp however, are in his ability to keep his women happy, command money, and portray a deep mysterious and somewhat mean demeanor about him, one that conveys the message not to cross him. He is then said to be “cold-blooded,” able to turn off any warm feelings and loving affection in exchange for certain emotional and physical cruelty

There are several rules that one must be willing to follow in order to be a successful pimp. The most paramount rule in the pimping game is, “the pimp must get paid”. This means there can’t be any “shame in your game

THis is some beautiful pimp shit. So i highly recommend you check out his book. PIMP: The story of my life. It’ll change the way you think about your approach with women.  This is what I mean when I talk about the ALPHA MALE type shit.

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Black players: The Secret World of Black pimps

Iceberg Slim is probably the best known and also the least known Superpimp of all time.

“Best known” because his autobiography “Pimp: The Story of My Life” was a surprise underground best-seller in the 1960s, when it sold in the millions, especially to a vast audience of black street hustlers. “Least known” because the talented, reclusive writer and self-confessed psychopath found redemption in later life as a doting father — who zealously protected his daughters from the kind of abuse he had routinely dished out to his own whores (ho’s). Repeated jail sentences, the last time in a “steel casket,” cured him of any further hunger for “The Life.”

Iceberg’s self-examination and incisive observations of the underdog ghetto culture that spawned him constitute a saga of American society’s underbelly, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. His stories, told in accurate street language, influenced rap and hip-hop culture down to our own day. One lame rapper audaciously appropriated his name, and mainstream entertainers like Ice-T and Snoop Dog acknowledge him as the idol of their youthful “gangsta” years.

Now British author and editor Ian Whitaker has taken meticulous pains to track down the “lost” interviews with Iceberg from almost impossible-to-find magazines and newspapers, along with new interviews with those who knew him, including his daughter Misty. Richard Milner, co-author of the anthropological study “Black Players; The Secret World of Black Pimps,” contributes a new reminiscence of his contentious encounter with the King of Tricksters. Whitaker also reprints Milner’s original classic 1969 interview with Iceberg in full.

“The Lost Interviews” is an entertaining, fast-moving, and enlightening read. If you ever wondered about what goes on in the mind and the life of a warped genius who was “totally dedicated to pimping women,” here’s your opportunity to find out.

Iceberg Slim: The Lost Interviews with the Pimp