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. “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. That, like most other Iceberg projects, fell to the wayside. 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. My favorite book is my father’s autobiography ‘Pimp’. My Dad’s books were some of the first books released from Cash Money Content. “When we got the catalog and it was all in hand, we got a literary agent who introduced us to Cash Money. “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. 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. To come out and have books that are out there and still being read by the public. “I think that after years, obviously I’ve read all the books now, he survived that life. “He was such a open and loving person to me and my sisters,” continued Beck. 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. “Being a 14 year old girl, it was kind of shocking to read about the kind of life he lead. “It was around 1984 and that was the first time I read my father’s autobiography,” she explained. I ask Beck what was her age when she finally grasped that reality. The image of a weak black woman being dominated by a domineering gorilla pimp is a ugly realism of the streets. My father has inspired music for many years going back to Ice Cube and people like that. “I don’t want to say pimping is new school but you can see how people have used it in their campaign. “If you go back a few years it probably wasn’t the kind of thing that would be publicized in a positive light,” said Beck of her father’s former occupation. I asked her how was she able to reconcile the memory of harsh reality of her father’s life with her personal memories of him as a father and husband. Recently, I had the chance to speak with Misty Beck, the youngest daughter of Slim. His legacy is interwoven in the tapestry of modern street-lore and hip-hop unlike any other single single figure born before 1925. *The word legendary is often confused with the word infamous, but in the case of the late author and former pimp Iceberg Slim whether he is the former or the later is one for the scholars to debate.
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