![]() Most pimps were neglected as children and horribly abused, if not by their mothers, by the company their mothers kept. ![]() Nonetheless, the damage had been done.īeck would later note a common underlying trait that most career pimps carried within them: a genuine hatred or resentment of their mothers. It wasn't until Steve had beaten his mother within an inch of her life that she resolved to take her son and leave. The two then hatched a plan to reunite and cozy up to him, before they and gang of cohorts literally emptied his house of all its contents.įor the next three years, Beck and his mother would live under the tyranny and abuse of this man, Steve.īeck hated Steve, he hated that his mom did not see just who - and what - Steve was. The hustler, Steve, had alluded to knowing the whereabouts of Beck's biological father. He wasn't yet exposed to the realities of the lifestyle, but liked what he saw, nonetheless.Īll that came to an end, however, when a street hustler, who was a regular at the salon, talked his mother into leaving town with him. Beck would study the pimp's clothes, their mannerisms, carefree personas and overall commanding presence. Most of the beauty shop's patrons were pimps and whores. After luring a respectable, generous and naïve dry cleaner into her clutches, she used him for all she could, talking him into funding her own beauty salon.įinancially and emotionally, things began looking up for Beck, as a semblance of a somewhat traditional family life began to take shape. While sparing no moment to fawn over her only son, Beck's mother was manipulative and vindictive in her intimate relationships with men. He recalled his mother telling him the act elicited sympathy from prospective customers and, more often than not, resulted in a job.īeck recalls his mother as dedicated and loving to a fault when it came to him: Even when money was scarce, she pampered and spoiled him rotten, a mode of living he claimed help hone his expensive tastes. Soon after the break up of his parents, Beck’s mother began soliciting her hairstyling services door-to-door for 50 cents a pop, often with Robert wrapped in a blanket. The poignance with which he describes this experience, along with the fact that it's our introduction to the happenstance that molded Robert into who he became, is very telling.īeck would lament the fact that he did not have the opportunity to "settle that b*tches unpaid account" even years later, as he imagined his abuser as a frail, gray-haired old woman. The Beginningīeck's earliest memory, and one of the first accounts he vividly describes in his literary debut, "Pimp", was being left at the mercy of a sexually abusive female babysitter, beginning at the age of 3. bad in Slim's world, just the clouded cycle of uncertainty that any mixed bag of criminally-minded personalities in a predatory urban climate have to offer. There was no preachy black or white or good vs. ![]() ![]() Male or female, the characters eat or get eaten. You won't find the sexist slant of the female characters being painted as meek and vulnerable victims, "trafficked" and exploited against their will. Within the pages of Beck's work, you're confronted with the confused, damaged women beneath the diamonds and furs, and the dapper, yet dangerous, psychotic personalities of the smooth talking "macks" behind the Cadillac doors. ![]()
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