Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp

Born on the heels of the Civil Rights movement, Hip-Hop is a genre that has influenced young people across cultural lines. Its evolution, progressive or regressive depending on who you talk to, has had an undeniable and powerful impact on how we understand and interact with the world of Blackness. Hinojosa takes us to the streets where notorious Iceberg Slim ruled, and where modern day Hip-Hop found its wings. Ex-convict Iceberg authored 7 ground-breaking novels giving birth to street-literature, sold millions of copies, got rich and ‘turned his life around’ in the process. It’s not a little scary who turns up to sing the unrepentant pimp’s praises, Snoop Dogg (before he was Snoop Lion), Chris Rock, Ice-T, a man who became a cultural icon and made poetry out of the muck of his life and the ghetto.