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. 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. At what point did he become involved in the project? It’s a lot of ill parallels.Ĭhris Rock also appears in the documentary to talk about how much Iceberg Slim’s books influenced his life, too. To watch him transform into this person that tries to help kids and warn them against life on the street, that’s the same thing I do. Well, I didn’t start making music until I was out of the game. The revelation that didn’t start writing books until he was out of the game. Like I said in the documentary, we were trying to pimp some chicks and they stole our car! So, I went off and started making my own money. When I actually finally got involved in that game, I realized it was more a headache than anything else. I had a lot of false starts before I got it right. Ice-T: Right, I misinterpreted the book and so I got in the street. Ice-T, in the documentary you talk about how you originally misinterpreted the book and pursued crime rather than art. 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. With the help of other Iceberg Slim devotees, such as Snoop Dogg, Bill Duke, and Chris Rock (who hands out copies of Pimp: The Story of My Lifeas wrap presents)-along with archival footage and interviews with members of Slim’s family-first- time director Hinojosa and executive producer Ice-T have pieced together a fascinating, complex account of the criminal turned best-selling author’s life in Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp. More than three decades after first discovering the book, when mulling over possible film projects, Ice-T decided with Hinojosa to investigate Iceberg Slim’s complex life in a documentary. Later on in my life, when I got into music, I started to write, but I would write them like books, like stories.” His admiration for Iceberg inspired his rap name, his creative career, and his gift choices-the rapper and Law and Order: Special Victims Unitstar has presented a copy of the book, which has drawn comparisons to the groundbreaking literature of Ralph Ellison, to everyone from his daughter to his longtime manager, Jorge Hinojosa, as a “crash course” on his life. “I started to read it, and I could quote lines out of it,” Ice-T told VF.com during a recent interview. It wasn’t until he got his hands on a paperback copy of Iceberg Slim’s 1969 memoir, Pimp: The Story of My Life-which, he says, cool upperclassmen toted in the back pocket of their Levis each day-that he felt he connected to something. ![]() Before Ice-T, born Tracy Marrow, became a Grammy-winning rap artist, police-procedural detective, and reality-show star, he was a Los Angeles– area high-school student suffering through required readings like Moby Dick and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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