wikipedia | Slim attended Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama (it has been stated that he attended Tuskegee University at the same time as black author Ralph Ellison[4]),
but having spent time in the "street culture", he soon began
bootlegging and was expelled as a result. After his expulsion, his
mother encouraged him to become a criminal lawyer so that he could make a
legitimate living while continuing to work with the street people he
was so fond of, but Maupin, seeing the pimps bringing women into his
mother's beauty salon, was far more attracted to the model of money and
control over women that pimping provided.[4]
According to his memoir, Pimp, Slim started pimping at 18 and
continued that pursuit until age 42. The book claimed that during his
career, he had over 400 women, both black and white, working for him. He
said he was known for his frosty temperament, and at 6'2" and 180 lbs,
he was indeed slim, and he had a reputation for staying calm in sticky
situations, thus earning the street name Iceberg Slim. When verbal
instruction and psychological manipulation
failed to keep his women in line, he beat them with wire hangers; in
his autobiography he fully concedes he was a ruthless, vicious man.[5]
Slim had been involved with several other popular pimps, one of them Albert "Baby" Bell,[6] a man born in 1899 who had been pimping for decades and had a Duesenberg and a bejeweled pet ocelot.[6] Another pimp, who had gotten Slim hooked on heroin, went by the name of "Satin"[6] and was a major drug figure in Eastern America.[5]
Slim was noted for being able to effectively conceal his emotions
throughout his pimping career, something he said he learned from Baby
Bell: "A pimp has gotta know his whores, but not let them know him; he's
gotta be god all the way."[5]
wikipedia | Robert Sylvester Kelly was born on January 8, 1967 at Chicago Lying-in Hospital in Hyde Park, Chicago.[18] Kelly is the third of four children.[8] Kelly's single mother, Joanne, was a singer. She raised her children Baptist. Kelly's father was absent throughout his son's life.[19] Kelly's family lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes public housing project in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.[20] Kelly's high school music teacher Lena McLin
described Kelly's childhood home: "It was bare. One table, two chairs.
There was no father there, I knew that, and they had very little".[21] Kelly began singing in the church choir at age eight.[8]
Kelly grew up in a house full of women, whom he said would act
differently when his mother and grandparents were not home. At a young
age Kelly was often sexually abused by a woman who was at least ten
years older than himself. "I was too afraid and too ashamed," Kelly
wrote in his autobiography about why he never told anyone. At age 11, he
was shot in the shoulder while riding his bike home; the bullet is
reportedly still lodged in his shoulder.[22]
Kelly was eight years old when he had his first girlfriend. They
would hold hands and eat make-believe meals inside their playhouse built
from cardboard, where they "vowed to be boyfriend and girlfriend
forever." Their last play date turned tragic when, after fighting with
some older children over a play area by a creek, Lulu was pushed into
the water. A fast-moving current swept her away while she screamed
Kelly's name. Shortly after, she was found dead downstream. Kelly calls
Lulu his very first musical inspiration.[22]
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