But what he needed was for her to take all of the stories and stitch them together and to be kind of his de facto editor. When I read his letter to the warden, I could see how wonderful of a writer he was. Hinojosa: How closely involved his wife was. What were you most surprised to find out about Iceberg when making this movie? Like Chris Rock said, his momma kinda invented the pimp. I’m sure there were women that lived the opposite of that, that were abused by their fathers, and today fucking hate men to death. We tried to explain some of the factors that went into his distaste of women.
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I say, “Well, it seemed like the right thing to do at the time.” The movie isn’t about pimping it’s more of a portrait of a criminal. Whenever people ask me how I did all of these negative things in my life, I quote Fargo. It’s an interesting story about how people change. Then you see him have this epiphany in prison, take care of his family in the ghetto, defending his family. I think at the beginning of this movie, you hate the fuck out of Iceberg Slim. The true story is, even if it seems exciting, the horror and the pain that comes along with it, it isn’t worth it. If you tell the true story, you are not glamorizing it. You see a movie like Blow, and there is some reason why people do it. When you are involved in drug dealing, it’s exciting.
The guys robbing a bank are having a ball. The truth of the fact is that there is glamour involved in the negative shit. This is just a story about the underworld. The more savage you are, the cooler you are. In the underworld, negativity is held in a high regard. We could write other books, and call them Drug Dealer, Bank Robber, Extortionist. How do we reconcile that interpretation versus the actual definition of the word, a person who exploits and often mistreats women? To hear some of your interview subjects in the documentary, and many people in the rap community, the word “pimp” has a connotation of being cool. Vanity Fair Interview With Ice-T and Jorge Hinojosa You can read the entire article / interivew at . Here is some more of the Vanity Fair interivew. Later on in my life, when I got into music, I started to write, but I would write them like books, like stories.” “I started to read it, and I could quote lines out of it,” Ice-T told VF.com during a recent interview. Introduced to prostitution by his mother, Slim (born Robert Beck) ultimately turned against it after jail time and drug dependency and, with the help of his wife, recorded his experiences in the revolutionary memoir, which both artfully depicts the seedy underworld he inhabited and cautions readers against it. The documentary includes interviews with Iceberg Slim, Chris Rock, Henry Rollins, Snoop Dogg and Quincy Jones. These books were the birth of Street Lit and explored the world of the ghetto in gritty and poetic detail and have made him a cultural icon.
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, examines the tumultuous life of legendary Chicago pimp Iceberg Slim (1918-1992) and how he reinvented himself from pimp to author of 7 groundbreaking books. Ice-T and director Jorge Hinojosa have collaborated to produce Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp, a documentary on Iceberg Slim that recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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