Word: pimped
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Nellyville (Nelly's ever-so-humble nickname for St. Louis, Mo.) provides little reason to think its creator is up to any more than that. Songs like Pimp Juice aren't about pimping; they just invoke the trope because, sadly, that's how lazy mainstream rap has got in 2002. Actually, the message of Pimp Juice is uplifting--"Your pimp juice is anything that attracts the opposite sex/It could be money, fame or straight intellect"--as long as you don't mind being compared to a flesh peddler. Ah, well. Sensitive types won't take much comfort from...
...this group, I led a team to rural northern Nevada so we could gather enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the ballot. My crack team of volunteers consisted of a failed stand-up comic, an ex-felon who spent the 1990s in California State Penitentiary (a reformed pimp and carjacker), and his girlfriend. While this alone could have provided the plot for a bad movie, to my amusement (and hassle), there was much more in store...
...Funches and Rob Marriott. Says the publisher, "In the deepest recesses of our imagination lies a fascination with the dark side. Most of us, at one time or another, have wondered what a life lived outside the law might be like. Often, it has been the figure of the pimp - the image, the persona, but not always the reality - upon which we project these fantasies. The pimp mentality and approach to life is (an) all too frightening reflection of our intensely materialistic, highly sexed, hyper-capitalist society. Sometimes, a closer look at our political and business leaders, our pop culture...
...baritone to give life to a character who is desire incarnate. Strutting, preening, cajoling, even begging, he radiates charisma, as well as a sad sort of desperation that the character is unaware he possesses. A lesser actor might be inclined to soften the character and play him as a pimp with a heart of gold. Gray, though, avoids all of the character’s traps, forging ahead with a portrayal that embraces greed in such a visceral sense that one cannot help but embrace him and eagerly follow wherever he leads...
...collar with Menace II Society. The film, about black, disenfranchised youth, opened to critical acclaim and big box office. They returned to that milieu in 1995 with the ambitious Dead Presidents, about a black Vietnam soldier returning to a life of crime in the hood. With American Pimp, a controversial 1999 documentary, they took a straight-on view of the gold-medallion and Cadillac...