Word: pimping
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...awarding of Best Song to a rap anthem in praise of a flesh peddler. Old-timers may look at the Best Song category and see a dreadful devolution over the decades, from the Gershwin and Kern winners of the 1930s to ?It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp? this year. But, hell, the competition comprised of a woozy liturgical ballad from Crash and an uptempo number from the bottom of the Dolly Parton song trunk. And the winners, three exponents of Memphis hiphop, expressed more astonished delight than anyone except the Crash crowd. One of them even thanked...
...recent Friday night, Dominique Thomas had been camped outside the Niketown store in South Miami for two full days. Thomas, who goes by the street name DK the Line Pimp, had flown in from Denver and was first in line to buy the $100 Cowboy Air Max 180s, which were scheduled to go on sale at 10 that night. Just 140 pairs of these limited-edition sneakers--a hunter green, lizard-skin design with a light pink Swoosh--were manufactured, and they would be sold only at the Miami store and only that night. As a snaking line of mostly...
...album starts out with a Pimp C sample: “Make my music for the boyz with the O’s, the old-school pros and the strip club hoes,” But in this case, the legendary Mr. Butler forgot to add, “for the Harvard freshman doing the white man’s overbite, furiously getting crunk in front of his mirror, jumping up and down and…” – well, you get the idea. In accordance with our “guilty pleasures” issue...
...Drink for the duration of the performance of nominated song “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp...
Helen Smith's past is one she would just as soon forget. A child of Chicago's housing projects, she ended up turning tricks, but the cash lined the pockets of her polio-stricken pimp named Crip. "I'd probably make $200 a night, but he took it all. I was the young one, and they liked to show me off, but I didn't know what I was doing," she says...