![]() “I don’t want to say pimping is new school but you can see how people have used it in their campaign. My father has inspired music for many years going back to Ice Cube and people like that. The image of a weak black woman being dominated by a domineering gorilla pimp is a ugly realism of the streets. I ask Beck what was her age when she finally grasped that reality. ![]() “It was around 1984 and that was the first time I read my father’s autobiography,” she explained. “Being a 14 year old girl, it was kind of shocking to read about the kind of life he lead. It probably took up to the moment he died that I reconciled the man with the life he lead.” Being a father, I felt he was no longer a pimp when I was born. “He was such a open and loving person to me and my sisters,” continued Beck. “I think that after years, obviously I’ve read all the books now, he survived that life. To come out and have books that are out there and still being read by the public. You felt like he did something with this horrible life he chose to lead.”ĭespite the image of Iceberg Slim being a catalyst of urban culture for nearly 50 years, his descendants have been fighting to gain control of his intellectual properties almost since his death in 1992. “There were some problems that we saw with royalty money coming and things like that and it took us five years to obtain the rights to the catalog,” said Misty. “When we got the catalog and it was all in hand, we got a literary agent who introduced us to Cash Money. My Dad’s books were some of the first books released from Cash Money Content. My favorite book is my father’s autobiography ‘Pimp’. There was some speculation a decade or so ago when the then A-list hot actor/director Ice Cube was supposed to be putting all the paperwork together to bring Iceberg to the big screen. ![]() That, like most other Iceberg projects, fell to the wayside. “Ice Cube attempted to adapt stuff from ‘Pimp’ where he was going to play my father, they were even in the middle of writing a script and our legal trouble just started sparking up with (publisher) Holloway House,” Misty told EURweb. We were trying to renegotiate and that’s what stopped the Ice Cube film.” “My sisters didn’t want to sign off on it because we didn’t have a hold on how we were getting our royalties.
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