On the other hand, most people who have success in independent/risky endeavors feel quite lonely, since by definition they don’t relate well to others who took the safe path, so someone who wants to attempt the same journey they took years ago, is someone who could become a great friend, someone to talk to who actually understands. The mentor-apprentice relationship is one of mutual appreciation where there’s no reason to cross each other: why would the apprentice cross a person who was kind enough to help him succeed? no reason. The only person he could be open and honest with was with Sweet, on the one hand because he “understood” Beck’s concerns and struggles since he had already lived through the same situation and on the other hand because Sweet had no incentive to cross Beck, who was just a dumb kid eager to learn who actually applied the advice he was given and was grateful with Sweet for sharing his wisdom. Of course, Beck didn’t sat around doing nothing in the mean time, he started figuring things out on his own, to the point he already had one whore working for him by the time he met his mentor “Sweet” who would later give Beck the nickname “Iceberg Slim”.īeck describes other pimps as treacherous, just waiting for a chance to steal other pimps’ whores, and whores as always watching out for even the slightest hint of weakness in their pimp. Sometimes a mentor is the only real friend you haveīack when Beck was 18 and just starting out, his first priority was to find a mentor, someone who could teach him how to be a pimp. In this post I’ll write the lessons I learned while reading his book. It’s not an exaggeration to say that his livelihood depended on him exploiting his social skills: He was a great seducer of women, he managed to break in as a pimp by befriending the correct people, who introduced him to his mentor Sweet (Albert “Baby” Bell), and even quickly befriended people in prison to help him escape. Iceberg Slim was a master in understanding human nature. Here’s a (link) if you’d like to read it. This book is quite dark but incredibly entertaining and well written. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives to becoming a giant of the streets.“Pimp: the story of my life” by Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck 1918 – 1992) is book that describes the rise and fall of Robert Beck a.k.a Iceberg Slim as a pimp in the United States. The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following. Iceberg Slim's first three novels ( Pimp, Trick Baby, and Mama Black Widow) offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Blue-eyed, light-haired and white-skinned, White Folks is the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned, a hustler in the jungle of Southside Chicago where only the sharpest survive. Trick Baby charts the rise of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as a trump card in the tough game of the Con. Please note that the following individual books as per original ISBN supplied individually by publisher and as per cover image in this listing shall be dispatched collectively:
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