Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp shows Slim’s transformation from pimp to the author of seven classic books. Iceberg Slim’s story is now depicted in a major motion picture distributed worldwide. This is the heyday of the pimp, the hard-won pride and glory, small though it may be the beginnings of pimp before it was dragged in front of the camera, before pimp juice and pimp style. If you thought Hustle & Flow was the true pimp story, this book is where it all began. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. Only Slim could tell this story and make the reader feel it. It tells the story of Robert Lee Maupin’s life as a pimp working in Chicago’s South Side ghetto and reflects on his experiences as he looks back on his time as a hustler. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a “Trick Baby,” the child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Pimp: The Story of My Life PDF, written by Iceberg Slim, is an autobiographical novel published in 1967 by Holloway House Publishing. Given the title, this newspaper wouldn’t even print an ad. Trick Baby tells the story of “White Folks,” a blue-eyed, light-haired, con artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. The New York Times didn’t merely not review Pimp, Justin Gifford notes in Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim. This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in south side Chicago where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor, and race, bestselling author Iceberg Slim brings us the story of a hustler who doesn’t just play the con game, he transforms it.

The author that brought black literature to the streets is back.

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