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Reflections on Iceberg Slim: the chronicler of male-female relations

I FIRST read Iceberg Slim’s autobiography Pimp when I was a teenager. The title, the women, the vice and the slang made it exotic, but the story was down and dirty. The women were often wild and fierce. By the end of the book, Slim was man ho’d lived and been chewed up by life. To me, this was no glorifying of the skin game.

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Posted: 4th, March 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment