11/14/2023 0 Comments Iceberg slim pimp![]() But as always the stress of the street was just too much and he ended up shooting himself in the head. Sweet probably the most powerful character in the book was just so powerful and strong that I could just envision his live pad and his lavish dwellings. Although they later on destroyed their lives through pimping they opened the door for Iceberg. Flat Top and Party Time introduced him to the Chicago pimping game. Rachel was also the only one on his side while he was in jail his final time for breaking out of jail. Chris (whom he had stolen from a crazed-Leroy who he later met in jail at the end of the book) was the only one to stand by his side when his stable was falling apart while he was in jail. Even though she later bailed on him she was his first true ride or die chick. Phyllis was his first cop and probably the most explored character in the book besides Iceberg himself. The book shows his rise from a pimp dream to a pimp fantasy to a pimp hell! One of the hardest parts for me in the book was understanding the slang, this is slang used during the 1930's 40's and 50's! I found myself flipping back and forth between the glossary. ![]() His mother, father Steve, stepfather Henry, 1st botton-whore Phyllis (the runt), Sweet-Top, Party-Time, Flat-Top, Chris, Rachel, and Leroy. Throughout the book Rob is in contact with characters that sometimes overshadow him. From there Robert (Iceberg) gets in a lot of trouble. But later his mother tricked Henry and she and Iceberg meet his dead beat dad Steve in Minneapolis. His father treated him like crap, so they left, him and his mother met a man that would soon become Iceberg's role-model, Henry. It starts off with him as a child and his loving mother. Even more Heartfelt than his "Naked Soul" because these are real experiences, real people, and real pimping. Iceberg Slim delivered his most heartfelt novel. Too often these days we hear all these people goin around callin themselves pimps, and hoes and say they pimpin it!! How would I ever know that real pimpin took place almost 50 yrs ago. Sometimes I wonder if these pimp wannbes can read. He wanted to send a message against pimping and it's lifestyle. While this is an excellent book, it is ugly. Some of them talk about this book as though it's the Bible. But not the man he became but the man he was - a depraved parasite. Whenever this book is discussed as a movie project, the gangsta rappers start lobbying for the part. Performers such as Ice-T extol the pimp lifestyle. The black pimp is a role-model for some segments of society. A woman "georgias" a man when she uses him for sexual gratification without paying. The reader may have trouble with his slang. Mood and feeling are enhanced by his lack of polish. For more details about his descent into depravity and his redemption - read the book. But his path is set, the seeds of hatred planted years before take root and flourish. In a time of blatant racial discrimination (the 1920s, 30s, 40s) he is given a college scholarship. But even though stability is restored in his life, Robert wants to be a pimp. Of course things go down hill for his mother. He took his hatred of his mother out on women - as a pimp. The image of his stepfather crying in the street begging his mother to stay is repeated throughout the book. They lead a comfortable upper middle-class existence until his mother runs off with another man. Stability came into his life when his mother marries an older man who was a successful businessman. Early on he is sexually abused by his babysitter. Bobby and his mother lead a hand-to-mouth existence for his early years. His father deserted them while he was a baby. Only someone who hates or feels the need to control women would make a `good' pimp. A `good' pimp only cares about using his women until they have no more left to give. The life of a hooker, especially one working the streets is harsh and degrading. The process of encouraging, enforcing a woman to sell her body is neither sexy or romantic. Maya Angelou's brother told her a pimp is one of two kinds of men. This is a chronicle of how he wasted twenty-five years of his life. It's written to leave a bad taste in your mouth. It's author Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim spent much of his life as a pimp.
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