Original subtitles

[ Man ] Iused to tell them...

"You gotta sit down if you wanna know what it's about with me."

"" wh y? "

"Cause what I got to tell you is more powerful..."

"Than a head-on collision goin' 90 Miles an hour on a one-way street."

"Well, what is it?" "Are you ready, girl?"

"Yeah." "I'm a motherfuckin' pimp."

[ Laughing ]

♪ [march] ♪

[ Woman ] A pimp is a person with no moral sense.

[ Man ] Somebody who's abusive and manipulative...

That exploits the vulnerabilities of people...

That don't have any control over their life.

[ man 2 ] Either they have a weakness for a particular drug...

Or they have no financial backing whatsoever, and they take advantage of it.

[ woman #2 ] I would feel that pimps are, are kind of despicable characters.

They're manipulators.

[ Man #3 ] Someone who doesn't value...

The true value that god intended for us to have for a woman.

Aren't they fellas that take care of the girl prostitutes and take their money?

Sleazy guy with a big afro...

Gold medallion, big wad of cash in his pocket.

With the hat and, like, along chain.

Essentially well endowed.

Huggy bear from starsky and hutch.

Somebody with no character.

People with no lives.

Something dirty.

Dirty scumball.

It's a bad thing.

Everything they stand for, makes me sick.

I don't give a fuck about pimps. I don't like "em.

♪ [ dial tone ] ♪

♪ [ telephone dialing ] ♪

♪ [line ringing j] ♪

What's happening? [ woman I what's up?

So what's happening right now?

Nothin, hella-fuckin' traffic out here, all these clubs and shit.

Shit don't be jumpin' off till alittle bit later.

Yeah bitch, you got to move 'round that shit though.

I have been walkin".

Shit, bitch, you better try to go get me some motherfuckin' money.

I don't understand you start playin games.

I'm not playing no games.

Well, bitch you ain't you got some money right now?

No, I haven't broke. I only been out for an hour.

Bitch, I wouldn't give a fuck if you was out for five minutes, ho.

You better go get me some motherfuckin' money bitch.

Go find some ho. You better do something, bitch.

Go look somewhere. Alleys, understand me? Stores, everywhere.

Daddy!

All right, bitch, shit. I'm a-holler at you then.

[ Indistinct ] Don't let me slow you down, bitch.

Okay.

In a minute.

[ man ] 1 started at a young age with this, man, you know?

When I was in the fifth grade, I had three white bitches...

Bringing me candy every day by the bags, right?

[ laughing ] You know what I'm sayin'? By the bags, right?

You know what I'm sayin'? Until one day, man, some white boys, right?

Some eighth-grade white boys...

These motherfuckers chased me all through the school, right?

You know, put a little end to that thing, know what I'm sayin'?

Then all of a sudden, you know, some years later, you know what I'm sayin"?

Here I am again, right? Getting money out a bitch ass. You know what I'm sayin'?

But it wasn't no candy this time. It's major money.

I was born like this, man. No one made me wanna...

I was born like this. You know what I'm sayin'?

I been breaking girlfriends since, like, you know, 15, 16 years old.

[ man ] You know, a nigga ain't gonna wake up one morning saying...

"I'm gonna go pimp." no, it don't work like that.

Pimpin' starts off from way back. I was going to high school.

A pimp lived next door to me. We'd be in the middle of the street playing football.

Every time he'd ride by, with that top down...

He got four, five ho's in there, and his hair gleaming, them diamonds kicking.

My heart would, like, flutter.

So once I start pimpin', and I ride by and see my ho's on the corner...

And I'm looking like he looked...

You know, I just get all warm, man, and fluttery, man...

And, you know, my head be tingling on the top.

♪ [ woman vocalizing ] ♪

[ interviewer I okay, give us your name and where you're from.

My name is rosebudd with two d's...

For a double dose of this pimpin'.

[ Whispering ] Rosebud.

[Jj]

As a young man, my older brother used to...

He wasn't a pimp, but he had a lot of women.

And I used to fantasize about them girls that was callin' him.

And I was pretending to be a pimp, and I wanted to be a pimp...

And all everything out my mouth was pimpin"...

But I made my money playing pool.

[ Balls Clacking ]

My first ho asked me.

She just liked me.

And I had told her that if she wanted to fuck with me...

She had to give me some money.

Then one day she gave me $125. Some dude was giving it to her.

But okay, she giving me the money so I told her...

"Bitch, I'm a-pimp your motherfuckin' ass."

And she said, "I'll be your ho."

And I said, "Okay. First thing monday."

[ Laughing ]

That's how big of a square I was.

It was friday night, prime time to go right-now pimpin"...

And I told that bitch that I would see her monday at 2:00.

And, uh, monday came, you know, like any other...

You know, I'm playin' pool. I see the bitch. "damn. She there."

I'm talking myself out of it but then when I see her I say, "shit. I gotta do this."

I pick her up. She get in the car.

I'm still trying to get out of it, so I get mad at her.

"Bitch, you got on them fuckin' jeans. How in the fuck..."

And the bitch said, "wait a minute."

Pulled off the jeans and had on hot pants and go-go boots.

It was in my face. I had to go, so I went to Oakland...

And on the way to Oakland something just came over me.

1 just started pimpin".

♪ bad, bad missus 7

♪ in them skintight britches ♪

♪ runnin' folks in the ditches ♪

♪ baby, I'm 'bout to bust the stitches ♪

♪ yeah

This bitch here, I used to call her "l."

She was probably one of the best ho's...

If not the best ho, I ever had.

[ Interviewer ] Why?

What she would do is like little shit that I liked done.

Uh, having my joint rolled and ready for me...

When I done told her I was coming over.

Or, you know, instead of me having to wait for her to...

Take a shower or something after she get through, she all showered and fresh.

'cause nine out of ten times when I call aho, tell her I'm comin' over...

I'm comin' to bust that thing out, you know. So she know that.

Now this one here in the middle...

[ Laughing ]

That's the one that told me she wanted to ho for me.

That's the one I turned out with.

She gave me my first pimp dollar. That was...

She dead, too. That was sandy baby.

[ Interviewer ] What happened?

Man. Big time shit in Hollywood, man.

About 16 police had arranged this burglary ring...

And they was burglarizing video stores at the particular time.

And they would set off alarms and act like they the first one on the scene...

But they would really burglarize the place.

And this bitch was a boyfriend and a girlfriend with one of them.

One of the cops would take her on these little burglaries.

She became a witness in this, and they downed her.

They killed her motherfuckin' ass, man.

[ interviewer ] Was it in l.a.? Hell, yeah, in l.a., man!

You'll see it in the records, man. This bitch right here, man.

They straight killed her, man.

And believe it or not, to this day I think of her all the...

Her birthday just passed, November 29.

[Interviewer] Why was she so special?

Like your first kiss or anything else, man.

She was the first ho to really pay me, man.

She was the only ho that was with me.

Everybody else was with who they thought rosebudd was.

Them women, if you got five ho's, they love you as their man.

And you treat each one of them as your woman.

You know, when you take them out, you they man.

I used to tell them, "if you want an off day you should've been a secretary bitch."

"I ain't got no designated off days."

But, when I gave you a off day, that broad was in heaven.

You know, she was in heaven 'cause she's with her man.

Her man's a motherfucker. Now I get to be with him.

This is why I'm ho'in.

[ Laughing ]

[Jj]

Now remember, a pimp is only as good as his product.

And his product is women.

Now you got to go out there and you got to get the best ones you can find.

And you got to work them broads...

Like nobody's ever worked them before.

And never forget, anybody can control a woman's body...

But the key is to control her mind.

You see, pimpin's big business...

And it's been going on since the beginning of time.

And it's going to continue straight ahead...

Till somebody up there turns out the lights on this small planet.

Can you dig it?

Yeah, yeah. I can dig it. Yeah.

[Jj]

[ Man ] Pimpin' started like this here.

First there was the hooker, getting money, but didn't know what to do with it...

Till the guy came along and showed her the point where...

"Let me manage your money."

They was managing their own money, you know...

But they didn't know what to do with it.

Then they had to get the pimp. He was for protection.

Before there was any pimp anywhere, there was Mary magdalene.

She was ho'in' like a motherfucker in the bible days.

Jesus knew her.

[ Laughs ] Know what I'm sayin'?

We came after all that. See, if there ain't another pimp in the country...

There's gonna be some motherfuckin' ho's ho'in'.

[Man ] It had to happen somewhere a long time ago...

When the slave master or the sharecrop master was...

Having his way with a woman.

Some smart guy told her...

That you don't have to let that go on without getting paid.

You know, in reconstruction times, after the slaves had been set free?

They didn't have any skills, they didn't have any money.

And it was like, "hey, baby, have you seen massa John..."

"Since he set us free?"

"Yeah, I saw him yesterday, and he kinda..."

"He asked me why don't I come by the house sometime and see him."

"Why don't you go by the house, see him."

"And before you leave, ask him to give you something."

Lot of those brothers used to be riding in town, man...

With those really nice carriages that they went driving for the master.

That was their carriages, you understand me?

And they was dressed in those nice outfits.

Nobody really paid them that much attention.

Because for years, prostitution wasn't a bad thing.

You look at the old movies, you see that the ho' house was where...

The mayor, the sheriff...

Everybody in town met there every day, had drinks...

And enjoyed being there.

When it became a known thing that black men were actually...

Getting alot of money... [ interviewer ] Right.

From this particular vice and they weren't paying any taxes...

That's when it became such a dreaded thing.

[Jj]

My name is kenny red. We are in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital...

The house of representatives.

Everything is white over here. See that building over there?

See, I need to try to get up in there.

I'm representing pimping all over the nation. You know what I'm sayin'?

'cause I done did it from the state capital to the nation's capital...

To the pineapple to the big apple, you know what I'm sayin'?

Soicome to see if I could come over here...

And put us a few words up in there, you know what I'm sayin'?

[ Man ] Hey, ray, what's happening?

Shit. The same old soup, just reheated.

You know the routine a pimp do. You know what I'm sayin'?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Believe that, dog.

Go get my car washed, know what I'm sayin'? That's right.

And see if I can go catch me a nice, pretty young bitch.

[ Both Laughing ]

Somebody that might like this pimpin'.

Like that. Yeah.

Pimp ain't groomed, you know what I'm sayin'? [ cell phone ringing ]

Hold on. Let me see what bitch that is.

Okay, this is the bitch here right now, you know what I'm sayin'?

Hey, bitch, what's happening?

Yeah, bl-- yeah, bitch. I told you...

I told you you can get it, bitch.

I told you, you gonna be able to get it. Don't even worry about it.

I already know what you gonna say, bitch. Yeah, bitch. Yeah, bitch.

Only thing you do, bitch, is just go to work, handle my business...

Get my money, don't give me no problems...

And everything's gonna be all right.

[ Both Speaking Indistinctly ]

I come from the ghetto, you know?

I mean, it's something that I always wanted to do. I wanted a easy job.

My mom passed when I was 18 years old...

And I ran into, you know, a friend of mine, you know, and everything.

I was hangin' out on the corner, you know, so it was like he come rescued me...

And give me the game about what this "ism" was about.

So I stayed down and dirty, and here I am today.

[Jj]

Governors, senators, you know, movie stars, actors, all that shit...

You know what I'm sayin', I mean, all of them, that's why it go on so long.

Like, it's the money. Even when I was coming up I always heard about...

"Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C."

So I come to Washington, D.C., to really see...

If the motherfuckers was getting that kind of money.

And when I came, it made me a believer.

[ Rosebudd ] The pimpin' is it.

For the average man, you know, the brother in the ghetto...

What more security can you have than realizing...

There's not a bill you have or can accumulate...

That you can't pay in one night's work?

I check, uh, $1,500, $1,600 last night out of each bitch.

We was checking money so much in Hollywood...

That you could actually save your hundred-dollar bills and spend the rest.

Thousand dollars a day, one bitch...

That's what I count it at, right? One bitch.

So if I got two ho's, three ho's...

Times that by two or three, you know what I'm sayin'?

I mean, shit. I'm making more money than the president.

I'm tryin' to see if I can jump over here to the white house, go holler at bill.

Since if he got his motherfuckin' knee fixed and every motherfuckin' thing.

If he ain't there, I might could knock old hillary off.

You know what I'm sayin'? [ Laughs ]

You know, 'cause pimpin' do wonders, you know what I'm sayin'?

I've had four pimps, various ages.

Some of them are cool, some of 'em are shady...

Some of them don't respect the game...

Some of them are foul, some of 'em are all right.

You know, it just depends on the person that they were before they were pimpin'.

In this underworld thing we call "the game..."

You have your pimps, you have your players...

Your macks and all this other stuff.

You have pimps that, they meet a young lady...

They want to push dope on 'em, and drugs and things like that.

And keep "em, like, in a fog so they never know what they're doing.

Then you have pimps that, um...

Don't push dope on you and things like that...

But they demand you, okay, to be right there, like...

"Bitch, what have you done for me lately?" that type of shit.

You know what I mean? That aggressive attitude thing.

And then you have your blase, suave players.

Players were very intelligent men, that made sense when they talked.

They looked good.

They, when they left, they left a positive image with you.

In the black community, you know, everybody, we were the in crowd.

The street game is the black man's game...

That the white man can't, it's the only game he can't control.

He can control all the dope dealers in the world. He can't control the pimp.

I've never seen no white pimp. Mostly everybody that I see...

That's fuckin' with this is something like myself, black man.

I don't think them other races have the charisma, man.

You know what I mean? To really move and shake like a pimp shake.

♪ some say his business is cold and a crime ♪

♪ Willie d. Willie d. ♪

♪ Willie. Oh, Willie d.

♪ oh Willie. Oh ♪

[ Ken Red ] When I get up, the first thing I do...

I take me a shower, wash my face, brush my motherfuckin' teeth.

I got to do my hair and all that kinda motherfuckin' shit.

I got to get dressed. I got to smell good and everything.

It takes me two or three hours to get dressed...

'cause it's lights, camera and action, you know what I'm sayin'?

I wanted to be in the best suit, the best shoes...

And, you know, the best cologne...

And, you know, it was all image.

You know, you look like a million bucks...

You have more opportunity to attract a million bucks than if you don't.

Custom-made versace suits, custom ari gators from Italy.

You know, an up-and-coming pimp a lot of times...

He'll say, "man, I wanna get me a nice wardrobe, and get me some gators!"

Gators is like, it. You arrive.

You feel like, "Man, I got thousand-dollar shoes on."

Pimp gotta have tools to keep his house together, and that's what all that is.

You know what I'm sayin'? The gators, the suits, the flashy suits...

The flashy class to catch a ho's eye, you know, "bam!"

[ Rosebudd ] You see these nails? I had these nails.

I sold these nails before I started pimpin' too.

I sold them to revlon. Revlon bought my nails.

They was, they was, like, an inch long.

I sold all ten of them. They all used to grow like that...

'cause all I did was peel money and touch bitches.

That's all I did, talk shit and swallow spit, all day long.

[ man ] You wonder why pimps'll still put on suits...

Alligator shoes and big-ass hats...

And a bunch of damn chains, and still have...

Five women work for them.

You wonder why this motherfucker, who you think is a clown...

Just jumped in a fuckin' rolls royce, you know what I'm sayin'?

That's 'cause fuckin" Hawaii, Las Vegas, Miami, San Francisco...

All through the fuckin' south...

Go to New York, go to Chicago, pimpin' is in effect.

♪ well, all right, you squares, it's time we smoked ♪

♪ [ continues, indistinct ] I

Every city you have...

Situations where guys who call themselves "macks" or "pimps"...

Who wants to be glamorized, who wants to be famous...

Who wants to show all the other players that...

"Hey, I'm the top player in the country. I got the baddest ho's.""

"I got the slickest clothes. I got the beautiful shoes."

Other players sit back and recognize that and say...

"Look at Joe blow."

"He made a come-up. He's shining."

"Look at his ho's. His ho's is in pocket."

"You know, his bitches is givin' it up for him.

"They sockin'it to his pocket."

"They droppin' out they cock and puttin'it in the pimp sock."

[ man ] The name is internationally known...

What year it started, I think it was something like 1969.

I was trying to get my feet wet.

You know, a guy that's comin' to the game...

His options is to dream...

To want to have a Cadillac, the clothes, a female, the jewelry...

Different things like that.

It was a thing where I was so young where the girls used to have to come...

Ask my mother could they take me shopping with they trick.

I mean, I mean, it just like it was something that was blessed upon me.

♪ [funk] ♪

This is the west side.

The best side.

Hello, mother.

[ Mumbling ]

This is the family tree.

This is where it all started.

This is my mother. Let me show you something right here, man.

This was one of the times at the height of my pimp game.

See green and gold? That's my trademark there...

Green for the money, and gold was for the honey.

When he was born the doctor said he was gonna be that way.

What'd you say, they say that he was gonna be a special child?

Yeah. He said that he's gonna be a special child.

He always like to be around a lot of people. Mm-hmm.

And he liked to be in everything.

[ Bishop ] Here I am with mayor Barry out of...

You know, Washington there.

And here I am with al green.

And here I am here with none other...

Than the great, ike Turner.

[ Interviewer ] Who is that right there?

Oh that's Donald Trump. Me and Donald Trump.

I didn't live next door to no doctor or no lawyer.

I lived next door to pimps and dope dealers, man.

When I sit on the porch and come out the house...

I don't see nobody with no briefcase.

I see a guy comin' out with two, three girls, man.

With some diamonds and some flashy suit and a big, pretty car.

That was my role model.

[ Mother ] When he was out pimpin"...

He never did come home like he's pimpin'.

He always come home as a nice child.

He used to come by my house and tell me... [ chuckling ]

I'd be sittin" up, drinkin' me some beer...

Ain't thinkin about what he talkin' about.

He say, "Ann, these girls like me."

"I'm gonna get me some money."

Yeah! This is Madison street. Man, this is the main drag.

Man, when you come to town, you got to go down Madison street.

Look at the united center. They tore the old one down.

Now we got a $175 million building sittin' in the heart of the ghetto baby...

Where the girls used to stroll for ten a crack.

Man, I'm telling you, this was a track. It always been a track.

You gonna see some of the girls strolling now, man. Look at the girls.

They workin'. Hey, baby.

Yeah, she a ho gettin' her some money.

International pimping's when you go all across the bubble, know what I'm saying?

Every track is different. You got to know how to work each track.

Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle...

It's gonna be like from frisco to Maine, all the way to Spain.

You could close your eyes and spin around, just pick a state, right?

Ask about charm. They're going to tell you, "ah, magnificent pimp!"

[ Bradley I one of my pimp friends hit me from Hawaii...

And I might be in San Francisco.

And they been sweatin' ho's, takin' ho's to jail...

And ho's ain't been able to get a pimp's money.

I might hit my partner, "man, what you get off the streets last night?"

He might've got $1,800 out a bitch.

And he let me know that they workin' around there. I'm a-send for the troops.

[R.p. ] This is New York, new York, the city and the state.

There's about seven, eight, nine, ten tracks around this motherfucker.

Fuck around in New York, you can make you a track.

They fuckin' anywhere in new York. Condoms all over the place...

I done seen niggas come to New York with five or six bitches...

And leave up out of there with none, with shoe strings holdin' up they pants.

[ gorgeous dre ] D.c. Used to be wide the fuck open.

Motherfuckers was makin' u-turns in the middle of the street and just pimp.

You know when niggas run a town, they just let shit go on, right?

Vegas is the type of town where you can...

You know, get your players out, get your jewelry and your toolery out.

Bitch'll hit the casino, wait for the service to hit her pager...

Bam! Shoot upstairs to the old trick's room, and come back and catch a trick.

[ gorgeous dre ] The best track in the country was sunset, in Hollywood.

Sunset, baby! You know!

All these corners, spaulding, genessee, Stanley

You'd be just stopping at the corners, fuckin' with ho's.

Now, Hawaii, kala, kala, oh, man.

They have plane loads of Japanese men that will come...

Just to turn tricks with the girls.

♪ [ hawaiian ] ♪

This is waikiki, know what I'm sayin'? Where it all happens.

This is kala kala avenue. This is the main part of the whole show.

Well, this track here, man, is really set up different...

'cause, like, on the mainland, you know...

Ho's will find a corner and they'll stand there, and tricks be driving around.

But over here, bitch gotta be walkin'. She gotta be in the mix.

So if she ain't got no hustle about her, she ain't gonna get no money.

This ain't the town for a bitch that's lazy ho'in', you know what I mean?

It ain't like mostly a lot of places where they doin' $50 blow jobs...

Or, you know, $80 fucks, right?

Ain't not of that kind of shit goin' on around here.

Everything start off least $100. You can't get nothin".

You can't even really talk to abitch without 100 bucks.

So these bitches manage, really try to, know what I'm sayin"...

Make themselves look hella-good around here to catch a trick's eye...

Because the shit gonna be so profitable around here, you know what I mean?

It's like a fashion show, you know what I'm sayin'?

You come out, you gonna see ho's chopped to death, right?

I mean, you know, looking real good, man.

You know, a bitch is trying to really look the part she playin', right?

[ Tires Squealing ]

Yo, I'm a golfer for real, man. I try to play every day, four days a week at least.

Pimpin' afford me to play golf, you know what I'm sayin'? You know?

You gotta have some money to play golf, man, you know what I'm sayin'?

'cause a lot of the motherfuckin' golf courses, man...

They want $140, $190 a day, just to go play 18 holes of golf, right?

Ooh, nice shot. I be out there with them guys...

Teeing it up, you know what I'm sayin'?

You know, they be like, "yeah, what do you do? What do you do?"

And I be like, "yeah, you know, I do this, I do that." you know?

"What do you do?" "Oh, yeah, I'm a heart surgeon."

"I practiced at harvard."

All that kind of shit. "I went to harvard." all that kind of shit.

Doctors, lawyers, pro football players, basketball players...

I'm doing the same thing they do, right? I'm human just like them, you know?

When they run up to them, they want an autograph, right?

When they see me, they get away, you know what I'm sayin".

[ laughing ] It's like I'm the one they mama warned them about.

I mean, I'm not notorious. I'm charm! You know what I'm sayin'?

I'm charm, man, right? I mean, with a name like charm, how notorious could I be?

♪ [ hawaiian ]

[ Audience Clapping, Cheering ]

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It's not your face, bitch. It's my face. My tits and my ass.

I can train you to be a high-payin' ho.

[ man I where's my bitches? Bitch better have my money.

♪ I'm a pimp Mack daddy lookin' for the dollars

[ Man On Television ] Temptation is ever present.

[ No Audible Dialogue ]

[ Rosebudd ] What the media portrays...

And what they send them out lookin' for, ain't what we about.

You know, puttin' 'em on drugs and all that.

A pimp think like this, "I wanna get my money first."

If you put the bitch on drugs, the drug man gettin' the money first.

So, you know, pimp gotta count the money first.

So pimp don't use no drugs. Pimp don't be, you know, hatin' his mama.

These "huggy bears" and [ Laughing ]

And these clowns that they have on tv

A respectable prostitute would not give one of these clowns a dime, you know?

They have to include that little punk shit to make the pimpin' look raggedy.

You know? Otherwise, they applauding pimpin'...

And they liable to be turnin' some young bitches out.

It's a million misconceptions, really.

It's like, uh, you know, to them...

We possess the power to turn they daughters out.

[Man] They think we animals. We subhuman.

[ payroll ] Cold hearted...

And dirty down, lowlife motherfuckers, you know what I'm saying?

It's not like that. We not low-down and...

I'm down and cold on a bitch, you know what I'm sayin'?

I'm a die-hard pimp now, you know what I'm sayin'?

And a lot of stuff that has to do with pimpin'...

The average square don't understand.

See, they got real pimps and perpetrator pimps, you see what I'm sayin'?

See, I'm a real, full-fledged, 100% pimp.

See, I'll pimp on a bitch in chilly cold blood.

So everybody's thinkin' we just makin' ho's do this and do that.

But we ain't makin' ho's do a goddamn motherfuckin' thing...

If he talkin' about he pimpin".

Yeah. 'cause we ain't makin' 'em do a damn thing.

We just introducin' 'em to this shit...

And makin' sure they gonna do this shit right...

So we can be professional and live like a motherfuckin' king.

Well, I respect your ambition, Willie...

But you got to have vision.

Now, I run every kind of bitch, every kind of place, and I know one thing...

When it comes down on you, you either collectivize...

Or you run...

Like a solitary rat.

A lot of guys saw a movie back in the late '60s.

Lot of guys read iceberg slim's book pimp...

And they did it...

For maybe two or three years with that little bit of knowledge.

Right. But it's alittle bit of knowledge that you get...

From those books and movies because they didn't portray the real deal.

♪ if a pimp is what you wanna be

♪ ya gonna have to learn "Pimpology", "Pimpology"

[ too short ] The Mack was the one movie that...

It dealt with the entire essence of pimp..

What I call "pimpology", the whole science of it.

The only way to learn how to be a Mack...

Is to talk to older, wiser macks that's experienced...

That's been in the game for years.

[ C-Note ] Fillmore slim, internationally known.

I first got up on him through readin' in the jail and so on and so forth.

Then, like about two years after I got out of jail...

The first time, when I went for a year...

You know, I came to San Francisco.

I got a chance to meet him live, in the flesh.

I was mesmerized, 'cause that man's a legend.

♪ [blues] ♪

[ man I now some of you guys...

Might be surprised...

At what I'm about to say...

And say, "who is this lame...

"Who says he knows the game?

And where did he learn to play?"

So gather 'round...

And I'll run it down...

And unravel my pedigree.

I got my name from Fillmore street.

I come up on Fillmore street when I come to San Francisco.

First thing my sister told me when I got here...

She said, "you go anywhere in the world, but don't go on Fillmore street."

It was saturday night...

And the jungle was bright...

And the game was stalking its prey.

The code was crime on the neon line...

And the weak...

Were doomed to pay.

So I get to Fillmore street, and I just come here from New Orleans from the south.

I'm green. I see brothers with white girls and things, and leanin'.

And I said, "this is where I got to be." [ Horn Honking ]

So I started hanging on Fillmore street, and Fillmore street was my turf.

So they started callin' me Fillmore slim.

I had 22 women one time, 22 hookers.

Throughout my life, about 8,000 or 9,000.

I can only remember the first ones.

You know, I can never forget, like, the first one was Joyce.

This was a lady out of Phoenix, Arizona.

She was all right. She could lift me up when I was down.

I went down there. I met her at a disco...

Her mama told her, you know, her mama said...

They was kind of poor, her mama said...

"Go to Hollywood with this man and let him make you a star."

I told her she could be a, a jayne Mansfield.

Took her mama to the big safeway store.

Bought her a lot of groceries, and mama gave me her daughter.

But she didn't leave with me though. She didn't leave with me.

Mama said, "I'll send her to you in three weeks."

And the three weeks came, she showed up. Mama sent her to me.

♪ diamond in the back, sun roof top ♪

♪ diggin' the scene with a gangster lean j?

They call me "the godfather of the game."

Even the police respect me.

[ rosebudd ] The nigga has got to be 70-plus years old.

I know for a fact that nigga turned out pimpin' when he was 15...

Because we kicked it like that and he told me about his turnout.

So that give him 60 years in the game, pimpin', checkin' tramps.

I think he got a 18-year-old bitch now.

He's been around when I got in violent situations...

And has wooed me away from that, you know what I mean?

Told me how swell I pimp and how well he seen me pimpin'...

And there's no need for me to be mixed up...

In that situation that's other than gettin' my money.

Well I tell these young guys, "the game will be good to you if you good to game."

"If this is what you gonna do, you gonna be in the game..."

"Then you got to play it fair, you got to be right about the game."

Rules and regulations and guidelines.

And before you're even a pimp, you got to be a man.

I grew up, my father was a pimp, my mother was a ho.

It was fascinating, really, as a ten-year-old boy...

Seeing beautiful women coming in and out of your house.

In the beginning it was real fascinating to me.

I mean, I was blown away. "Wow. My daddy's, a ladies' man."

My father would sit me down, and he would tell me...

He said, "son, you see everything there that's going around here," he said.

"And that's okay." but he never glamorized that to me.

He never said that I want you to be a pimp.

And he would teach me, that you got to be a man before you be anything.

He said, "you got to be a man of principles, of character, some integrity."

So if you present yourself a certain way, you have to be consistently that way...

And that's how you get judged, you know?

If you say, "I'm a pimp and I got busted and I won't tell on anybody else,"

And when you get under pressure, like I was, facing 50 years...

And I didn't tell on anybody, then all the women and people...

Who know me look at me with respect.

It ain't easy, man.

It may look glamor-like to you, 'cause you see me ridin', ya dig?

Snakeskin down to the floor, ya dig?

Hat and shoes to match, diamonds on fingers and watches on arms.

I'm tellin' you, it might look easy, baby...

But you gonna have to work some to get to this static, baby.

See you at the top.

Gosh, I'm tired.

'sides, this town ain't got no cash anyway.

How do you think I'm gonna pay for the car?

And the cabin rents and stay in business?

How do you think we'll make enough money to

Get out of town if you don't rustle some cash?

I'm the guy that works hard to get you in touch with the real money.

Think that over. See you later.

Why do a ho need a pimp? 'cause if aho don't get no instruction...

She gonna be headed for self-destruction.

Priest need nuns, doctors need nurses...

So ho's need pimps, you know what I mean?

They need our instructions. They need our guidance. They need our protection.

Any bitch can get out there and sell some pussy.

Yeah, she can get out there and sell some pussy all day long.

But she don't know the ins and outs and the ins and outs and the outs and ins.

[ Bradley ] She be kind of misguided and undecided about what to do with her money.

The bitch might go to work on from friday to sunday, you know...

Get $500 a day or something. For the rest of

The week, she gonna take that little money...

And go to the club, go shopping, buy her alittle weed...

Eat and, you know, a whole bunch of shit like that, and just be broke.

By the time next weekend, the bitch starvin' and the rent due again.

But if she reachin' to a pimp, I'm gonna be makin' a bitch go to work every day

Not just on the weekend, every day.

And put some of them fives on top of them sixes, on top of them eights...

On top some them elevens, you know what I mean?

I stack it up and, you know, let me see my money grow.

He's more than a pimp. He's a, uh, a entrepreneur.

He's a, you know...

A financial manager as well as a companion.

He's there to bail you out when you go to jail...

And, you know, to console you if something bad happens.

They're supposed to protect a ho from situations of tricks...

If they can, if they're able to be paged and get there...

A correct and true pimp.

Some pimps I've experienced with didn't do it.

A good pimp understands the rules and regulations of the game...

So he knows what to impute into this woman.

If you get a nigga that's from the ghetto...

And he don't understand no, have no understanding about the game...

All he can transmit to her is his ghetto mentality.

So he might have a fine-ass bitch...

But the bitch don't make no money, 'cause she don't know how.

This motherfucker think that she can go out there...

And just make a couple of dollars, that ain't shit.

It might be a rich man or something.

She don't even know how to be around this rich man.

She don't know how to act or to seduce this

Motherfuckin' rich man....

'cause she, it ain't been taught her.

He might wanna fuck her for 50 bucks or 100 bucks...

But he come fuckin' one of my ho's...

He gonna get broke for damn near whatever he has...

'cause that's what I'm playin' for-- I'm playin' for big stakes.

Big old booty, , big old titties, big old legs.

A whole lot of brains.

She got to be a thoroughbred.

She got to be tryin' to peak for the Kentucky derby.

I mean, when they on the track, man...

I mean, it's girls out there competin' man...

Tryin' to buy they man the finest of everything.

So if you got a slow chick out there, man...

Then it's really just wasting a space, man, then she gonna get bumped.

The bitch got to learn fast. If the bitch was a special ed student in school...

You know what I mean, and it took her along time to learn

You know what I mean, the bitch might pick up slow.

But if the bitch kinda like witty, and she listen to a pimp...

You know what I mean, the bitch gonna pick it up fast.

It's like workin' at McDonald's, with the Peter pan hat on...

Flipping burgers for a living.

The first day you go in there, you know, you might make the filet o' fish.

It might take ten minutes.

Give it a week, you gonna be flipping them motherfuckers behind your back.

That's just like ho'in'. A real bitch gonna take to it like a fish to water.

[ charm I can't really be a ho if you not intelligent.

You know what I'm sayin'? 'cause when the bitch catch the trick...

She got to know how to manipulate him.

You know what I'm sayin'? How to, you know, put him in a frame of the mind...

Where he wanna give her everything she ask for.

But what makes her vicious is she's a thief, you know what I mean?

You know, get him for the big watch or the big jewelry...

Or whatever he might have layin' around.

You know, bitches gonna be at my cheese.

I know you say, "I have never been called this many bitches so fast..."

"And so quick, in so many seconds, huh?"

Yeah, bitch, if you could count how many times I called you abitch...

And if you could count how many tricks had you suck their dick, you'd be all right.

I'll call you back.

You don't have to call every woman a bitch.

It all depends on the mood I'm in, or if I'm feeling really pimpish...

Then "bitch" gonna be a bunch of "bitches" and "faggots" and all kind of shit.

Then if I'm upset, then she'll be a bunch of "bitches" and "ho's" and "faggots"...

With a bunch of adjectives in front of it.

A funky, once-a-month bleedin', dirty-down bitch.

That what she is. You know what I'm sayin'?

Like, you call me a pimp. Somebody would take that offensive.

A square would, you know what I'm sayin?

Some, some brothers get mad "Cause you say "nigga," right?

Right...

Well, the bitch, to her at least to my ho's...

That's more of a pet name, you know what I'm sayin'?

If 1 come into the house talkin' about "Sweetie pie" and "honey"

The bitch gonna look at me crazy like somethin' wrong, you know?

Nigga, you know, what's really goin' on?

There's a whole language to it. There's a whole, uh, just...

It's another world. But it's really all about money.

[ spicy ] You choose to be in the position that you're in.

When your man sits you down every night...

You have a choice whether you're gonna make some money and go home with it.

It's called living your life...

And, and having to do things in life...

That even though at a younger age you would think...

You would never be involved in.

Okay? It's just called, like, survival.

[ Bradley ] They ain't no more dumb than the bitches at the club...

Where a motherfucker buy her a cognac or buy her a drink...

And take her to the mo-mo, the motel and, you know...

And fuck the lining and lick the lining out her cock, you know what I mean?

That's the same thing and she go home and she ain't got a dime.

Wake up the next morning and feel a bigger fool than a wide-mouth bill...

'cause she broke and her cock stank and all that, you know what I mean?

A ho gonna be doing the right thing, 'cause she gonna be makin' a trick pay.

[ payroll ] Every bitch in they life has thought about ho'in".

At least once. I don't care if it's your mama, your sister, your cousin.

You might not wanna accept it, but every woman...

Has at least thought about it one time.

Any man can kill, right? Any woman can be turned out.

You can feel one. You know, like...

Could be a thousand women in the room, and you know which one...

Is down for the game.

It's away. It's alook that they have.

And when they see a pimp, they be like...

I'm the biggest pimp I know, soi can turn out anybody.

I don't give a fuck who it is. Anybody.

Oh, your mama goin'. She's goin'. [ Laughing ]

She come fuckin' with me, I'm sendin' her.

[ Honks Horn ] ♪ who's that lady ♪

♪ who's that lady 7 ♪ beautiful lady ♪

♪ who's that lady 7 ♪ lovely lady ♪

♪ who's that lady 7 ♪ real fine lady ♪

♪ who's that lady ♪ ♪ [ continues, indistinct ]

[ interviewer ] Where'd you guys meet? [ payroll ] Down in l.a....

A little dance joint called dreamland.

And, you know, the tricks come in there and dance with the broads.

I pay 'em like 20 bucks an hour. Talked to her, gave her my pager number...

Told her to hit me 'cause I thought that she

Could do alot better than she was doin".

So then, uh, the next day, she hit me, you know what I'm sayin', with the 911.

So I called her back. She really liked what I had to say to her.

Bam, knocked her on off.

He said he wants it more curly to add more age.

[ interviewer ] How old are you? Twenty.

Been to vegas out here before? Nope.

[ payroll ] It's monday night, and it's normally kind of slow on a monday night...

But now we got a convention with about 750,000 people in the town...

Soho got to go getiit.

They turn tricks together? [ payroll ] They might not turn a date together...

But I can't sit there and hold a trick's dick for him.

You know what I'm sayin"? And put the rubber on, where this ho can.

You know what I'm sayin'? Get in the car with her, you know what I'm sayin"...

And really show her how to, you know, really...

Get down and get a motherfucker's money.

Cause out here a bitch can't be aggressive and just grab a trick and say "hey!"

She'll get booted. Casinos are complicated, you know what I mean?

They're big. A bitch will fuck around and get lost, don't know where she at.

Spicy just show her, bam! Where to go, what bar to sit at what bartender is cool.

What you gotta do, right, is like buy you a roll of quarters or somethin"...

You know what I'm sayin'?

And then, uh, just play the little video poker, you know what I'm sayin'?

Drop a quarter here or there.

When a trick sit next to you, grab some of his quarters.

And when you go up to them little elevators, you know what I'm sayin'?

Grab on to that trick like you be tryin' to grab on pimpin'.

You know what I'm sayin"? You grab the trick and walk up there.

You know how you be tryin' to grab all on me in the mall...

Huggin' on me and rubbin' on me? I wasn't doin' that!

You was too. I'm sayin' do the same way though.

'cause when you up in them hotels, if you not walkin' right with em...

They'll try to fuck with you, you know what I'm sayin'?

So just act like that's your man and walk on up there.

Hey, man, see all this last minute shit, see now, this is what I'm talkin' about.

What is y'all doin'? Well, let's go, man. [ indistinct ]

All right. I'll see y'all later, man. All right. Bye.

Yeah, check in on time, please. Okay, please.

All right, I'll catch up with y'all.

[J 7]

[ c-note ] Ridin' up and down the street in the mall...

On the track, you know what I mean, hangin' around the track...

In small towns, in big cities, in nightclubs...

In strip clubs, you know what I mean? In church.

I may catch 'em in the club, I may catch 'em in the strip joint...

I may catch 'em just walkin' down the street.

A town, for instance, like Hollywood, it's alot of shelters...

And childrens of the night and runaways and different things.

So, you know, pimp gotta be kinda like the predator and just roll them joints.

A lot of dropouts, you know? Look at that? Its, you know? Hollywood boulevard.

It's alot of bitches on skateboards and shit around there...

Lookin' for some direction, you know what I'm talkin' about?

And it's a pimp's job to go through there, you know what I mean...

Hungry like the werewolf of London, and, you know...

Come up with him alittle somethin' around there.

It wasn't no thing for them to say, "I'll be with you. I'll try this."

They was poor. They wanted something. They wanted to move up.

We discussed having a lot of money...

And defying the system, um...

And not having bosses.

Us being together and having an empire.

You know, alot of womens come from broken homes...

Or wanting to be noticed or wanting some love, affection that they couldn't get.

And what a pimp do, a sincere pimp...

Is he fulfill them empty spaces in her life.

The bitch might say she had a boyfriend that tried to pimp on her...

One time before, but she wasn't with that...

Or "I'm too good to sell my body," or "I would never sell my body."

Well, like I said, it's about who tell the best lie.

I might tell the bitch, "I don't want you to sell your body."

"I want you to sell some conversation. Now, you might have to get naked..."

"In front of a trick, put a rubber on his dick and Jack him off or something."

"But it's about hips, lips and fingertips. I want you to try to steal something..."

"And talk for your money."

The bitch might bite. "Oh, that's all I got to do?"

Now, sure enough, when the bitch go to the...

Track, somebody gonna hit that woman's cock.

It's pussy for sale. That's gonna happen, you know what I mean?

But just to get the bitch motivated, get her dressed and get her to the track...

You know what I mean, you might have to do alittle lyin'.

Well, it ain't like the old days, old-timer.

You see, a fella doesn't have to break a girl in anymore.

There was a time when he had to get her nuts about him...

Maybe promise to marry her.

Then he'd get sick or lose his job.

Oh, there are a thousand excuses.

And she loved him enough that maybe she'd take a date with a friend...

Until he could start to payin' for the groceries again.

Only he never did.

[C-note] "fresh turn-out" is a bitch that ain't been ho'in' no longer than 30 days.

This bitch of mine got four days under her belt today.

I got to stay on top of it as far as I'm concerned.

I don't want the bitch to slip. Her mind is constantly wandering.

She wanna go home and this, there's certain things piss her off...

Certain things bother her. She ain't never did this before.

She was into all kinds of things before she met me.

Experimenting with drugs, you know, she like hangin' with gang-bangers...

And stealin' cars and shit.

I don't steal nothin". I don't steal nothin' but a bitch's mind, that's it.

[ c-note ] Get some more money, that's all. I'm not ready to go yet.

Then when I'm ready to go, y'all can go. Get one more, go in...

And then it'll be an even better amount of money we get out of...

Hey, come here. Come here, bitch.

You got a problem with what the fuck I said?

All right. Excuse yourselves.

She just ready to go, you know what I mean?

But I'm not ready to go yet, you know what I mean?

She think she made sufficient funds for the morning, but not really.

We can get some till about 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 in the morning.

Get out the bus stop. You restin'? Your feet hurt?

Get off the fuckin' phone. Get ho'in'.

Once I'm able to leave her out there by herself...

And don't have to have nobody watchin' her...

Lookin' over her back, then she'll be all right.

It's gonna, you know, she'll materialize. She'll come along.

I met her walkin' up the street, comin' from the mall.

I say, "you look like you on crystal or...

Somethin', 'cause you kind of fidgety and shit."

She say, "yeah, I fuck with it from time to time." I say, "well, what..."

"You ever thought about cleaning your life up and getting some money?"

She say, "Who wouldn't want to get some money?"

I say, "well, why don't you do an about-face, turn around..."

"Instead of walkin' home to go in, why don't you..."

"Come home and kick it with me for the night?"

And then we kicked it all night...

Talkin" about how we was gonna come get us some money.

And the next day, we was at the airport, gettin' on a plane.

You believe you gonna build somethin' with that person...

And, um, and live with that person and be with that person forever.

So, I mean a ho is lovin' that man, she doin' for that man...

Goin' through hell for that man.

[ jade ] And then you have these thoughts in the back of your mind...

Like, you know, "Why am I doing this?"

You know, "Does he really, truly love me?"

"Or is this a figment of my imagination?"

Okay? And bottom line...

It's afigment of their imagination.

You know, people have fantasy. And when I used to find myself...

In the midst of five, six girls at one time I used to sleep in the bed with.

Aw, man, the thrill, the joy of that goin' off, man.

I mean, it's enough to make a guy smile when he feel like frownin'.

I'm tellin' you, man, have girls, I mean, one on this leg...

One on this arm, on every limb of your body...

Tryin' to bring you to the greatest ecstasy...

That a man could ever reach in life...

Other than checkin' a big bank roll.

♪ well, well ♪

♪ dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills ♪

♪ it's all about dollar bills j?

What cut they get? Aw, no. They ain't gettin' no cut.

No percentage. Zero percentage.

Zero!

No dough!

Bitch of mine better not keep a dime.

Life ain't fair.

None. None.

If she only give me 50 percent ori let her take a half...

Or a 60/40 cut or anything like that, I'm...

Not gonna be able to give her all my pimpin'.

When she go to jail for that $5,000 bond...

What am I gonna tell her, I ain't got but $2,500?

Bitch, I'm gonna give you half 'cause you gave me half?

No, bitch, I'm gonna give you 100 percent. I'm a come reach your funky ass.

That's why I got to be demandin' my 100 percent, 110 percent.

[ danny brown ] If one of my women had proven to be stronger than me...

Then she could have been the leader.

But I was the master of the house. It was my program...

So all the money came to me.

It wasn't like I had part of the money, she had part of the money.

Uh, that's like a divided situation.

I supply the food, I supply the shelter...

I supply the clothing, I supply the medical bills.

I take care of everything. All she have to do is supply the money.

They get their own bank account, they get a nice apartment...

Nice pretty car, you know, I mean, you know.

We take care of mommy and daddy and everybody else in the family.

But then, I fulfill their dream. They went to Hollywood.

They mingle with the stars.

They even had an opportunity to stand at the gates of the white house.

Man!

To do what?

Talk to the security guard, ask 'em what was goin' on inside.

This the United States ofamerica. It's alot of things goin' on...

And the bitch want adventure.

Especially if you talkin' about a young ho you know? Wanna travel, wanna see things.

It's gonna require a pimp to take her there.

I got respect from alot of my womens' mothers...

Because I took alot of my women off welfare.

Go out there, check 5,000, break a trick for 5,000, she come and give it to me...

"Baby, I broke this trick for five grand."

Bam! That's exciting to her! You know what I'm sayin'?

Because it's me and it's us against the world.

You know what I'm sayin"? Us against the world.

When you're married they put a ring on your finger, you understand me?

They say, "that's your wife." motherfucker don't have no identity.

You understand me? Shit, I ain't gotta label her.

You know, she, you know, we, we here together. I had her now for 12 years.

That's a real relationship. Like a motherfucker.

When I was in school I was alittle black buckwheat I ain't never had no girlfriend.

Girls ain't like me. I ain't never hold a girl's hand, take her to the movies.

'cause I ain't never took no square nowhere.

And I do not buy dreams, I sell 'em.

Sex don't mean that much to me, man, you know? It ain't part of my routine.

Them tricks can do all that. They can have sex better than I can ever have sex.

[ Interviewer ] Why does a woman need a pimp?

Can't she just go out and do that herself?

It's not really based on that.

See, he don't need her, she don't need him. It's somethin"...

It's somethin', that the game that they in. It ain't about do she need him...

Or he need her, they together, and they down with the game, you understand me?

Like two bank robbers, like two gangbangers.

You know, like, you know, they just down together with the game.

See, people be wantin', you can't explain that.

It's like if you want to talk astrophysics to a motherfuckin' wino.

If you've had a boyfriend or girlfriend relationship...

It's kind of difficult to turn that into a successful...

Prostitute/ Mack relationship.

My bottom bitch been with me eight years.

Your main bitch, you know, the one been down the longest you know what I'm sayin'?

The one that gets to ride in the front seat when you got all the ho's together.

You know, I love her for all the right reasons, you know what I'm sayin'?

But now, you know, my love is different. It ain't the same love...

As a square's love, you know what I'm sayin'?

A square'll cut his wrists behind a woman leavin' him...

Or, you know, he can't eat, he can't sleep, you know what I'm sayin'?

He's suicidal when his girl or his wife or somethin' leave him, right? His mate.

Now, you know what I'm sayin', a pimp's love...

My love don't run that way, you know what I mean?

I love this woman because of what she been doin' for me, you know what I'm sayin'?

How she been handlin' my business and everything, right?

The average man, he can't handle...

The fact that his woman is out there fuckin' another man.

But when you a pimp, your mind have to be reconditioned...

And that has to be okay to you.

Thats a transformation that most men don't want to deal with, the sacrifice of that.

It ain't matrimony, it's macaroni, you know what I'm sayin'?

Because my bitch know. My bitch respect me as a pimp, I respect her as a ho...

And my bitch, she respect me as her pimp and her man, you know what I'm sayin'?

[R.p.] Love don't mix with this pimpin"!

What the hell you talkin' about? Goddamn no...

'cause if I get to motherfuckin' lovin' a bitch, she gonna end up lovin' me.

And she gonna love me too goddamn much and...

She gonna give me too many goddamn problems...

'cause her concentration's gonna be on me, how I'm treatin' her...

Instead of concentratin' on gettin' some goddamn money, you understand me?

'cause that's what she needs to do, that's our profession...

Is gettin' some goddamn motherfuckin' money.

Now, if she wanna fuck with me, well, then she gonna fuck with some pimpin'.

I didn't ask you to talk right now, right? I'm talkin".

You understand? So why you openin' up your mouth right now?

But listen here. Hey.

And next thing I know, uh...

It can't be no boyfriend and girlfriend shit around this...

About this pimpin' and ho'in', man...

'cause them boyfriend and girlfriend type of thing, you know what I mean...

When you become boyfriends/girlfriends, squares is we call 'em.

You know, ain't no, ain't nothin' like that, man.

He's more of a friend to me than, like a boyfriend, you know what I'm sayin'?

He's there if I need him, if I'm goin' through trouble, you know what I'm sayin'?

If I have a hard time, he's there for me.

If I have a problem with anything, he's there for me.

That's right. I love him like a friend, really.

More like a friend instead of a boyfriend or a husband. Yeah, your best partner.

'cause you can't boss him around like you can...

A boyfriend. You can tell a boyfriend anything.

Tell him, "do this for me, do that for me." him, you can't tell him shit.

[ Interviewer ] What happens if you disobey him?

I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna get my ass kicked.

I'm gettin' my ass whupped. Whupped on. Ain't no motherfuckin' question.

I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I don't like doin' it.

You know, I mean I ain't got a heart like hitler, like I said.

Ain't nary a nigga got a heart like hitler. I wouldn't give a fuck...

But then goddamn it when I mean they gotta pimp accordingly though.

'cause them ho's will take advantage of you real fast, you understand me?

Gettin' out of pocket, lookin' at another nigga too motherfuckin' hard...

Or smokin' up goddamn motherfuckin' weed.

When they on the track, ain't no drugs, period.

Bitch ain't on the track, if 1 catch a bitch on the track...

That smoked some weed or done dranked on the track, I'm kickin' her ass, period.

He teaches you the stuff about, you know...

What you should do, what you shouldn't do, you know?

It's up to, it's really up to the girl if she want to obey by what he says.

[ interviewer ] Right. But he don't tell you no lies.

The man never, he has never lied to me since I been with him.

I been with him for four years, and he's never lied to me about anything, really...

About the game, really.

Well, I haven't been with him that long, but I like him.

There's only three things a pimp want at night...

And that's action at a bitch...

To check his track, and action at another bitch.

[ siren wailing ] The police want you to be doin' somethin'...

When you on sunset.

So a motherfucker would go get a piece of chicken.

This is, um, pioneer chicken. This is where we all would meet.

This is where all the ho's had to pass goin' to work.

And it was one of the few places that you could be outside...

And be fuckin' with bitches.

And that's what we was all really doin"...

Lookin' at broads, tryin' to have us one.

"Knockin"," basically, man... consists of a pimp...

Losin' one of his employees and I gain an employee, you know what I'm sayin'?

Hey, you know it ain't never too late to...

Come on and fuck with charm the pimp, right?

You know, I been givin' you a real break around here since christmas.

I'm lettin' you know you still got the same action at me, girl.

Long as it take, I'm gonna be here.

You been lookin' qualified to be satisfied around here.

You better come and fuck with charm.

Yeah, I know you on the right track, but you on the wrong train.

551-8497. See about me.

I got somethin' different to tell every bitch, you know what I'm sayin'?

'cause I don't feel the same about that bitch...

As I feel about that bitch, right?

You know what I'm sayin'? What I like about her, I'm gonna let her know, right?

What I like about her, I'm gonna let her know, you know what I'm sayin'?

Now, they ain't tryin' to fuck with me, so they turn they head.

Because if I catch "em lookin, it's like a sign of weakness on the bitch part.

It's like the bitch want to fuck with me if she givin' me indication.

She might be tryin' to cut her eye at me, catch my eye like...

"Yeah, charm, I like somethin' about you," right?

When you knock somebody's female...

You're takin' bread and butter off their table.

That's about the worst motherfuckin' thing...

About this pimpin' that a motherfucker ever gonna know.

That's the worst thing a nigga gonna go through.

Mister pretty tony, I mean, you know the rules of the game.

I mean, your bitch just chose me.

Now, we can settle this like you got some class...

Or we can get into some gangsta shit.

You shade-tree nigga.

Y-you ain't no pimp. You're a rest haven for ho's.

[ rosebudd ] Fillmore slim, the nigga come to the town.

This town, Hollywood.

One thing about Hollywood, you gonna get broke in this motherfucker.

Or you gonna roll. Either or.

I don't know why he thought he wasn't gonna roll...

But he was scared of this motherfuckin' town, but he finally came down here.

He brought seven black-ass motherfuckin' bitches.

He came down here, put 'em down.

Let me see, that had to be somewhere around 82.

I first went to Hollywood, I had eight women you know.

I put 'em on sunset, on the track.

[ rosebudd ] Fillmore was kinda old then. He was a old nigga to us then.

So we, you know, greeted him and everything.

But then the young, fly niggas comin' up "Nigga, we just knocked you."

Seven, eight times he got served in the course of about five hours...

Standin' at pioneer chicken.

So, I get knocked off. I get charged for all eight of my women, right?

And when he got served for the last bitch, that motherfucker say, "damn."

They come and served me, right, said, "Man you know knocked off all your women."

This is Hollywood, see. You from, this ain't frisco, you know."

I said, "ain't no problem."

Shook his head and went to the phone.

Now, while he at the phone, aw, we just crackin' on him.

Man, that nigga got peeled left and right. I mean, they got all his ho's.

He got peeled like a motherfuckin' banana, just dry...

So, what happened was, the nigga get off the phone...

And come back over and say, "nigga..."

"You thought I was only eight deep?"

"I'm Fillmore motherfuckin' slim!"

"That was my second string of ho's y'all got."

"Just the warmers. That was the bench-warmers I brought out here."

"And I got my first string on the way."

"So I come back with the champions." and I'll be a motherfucker...

If the next day that nigga didn't have another seven motherfuckin' bitches...

That didn't nobody get to have, on that track payin' him.

Then they had to respect me.

He would toot his horn toodle-oodle-oodle-0oo!

And just wait five minutes them ho's crowd around his car and drop his dough off.

[ laughs ] Now, that's pimpin".

It was like the bait to set out there, you know?

Like the prey, to see who's gonna go after the prey.

And then I come back with the troopers.

The man know what he was doin". Twenty, twenty years in the game...

Is a average motherfucker's career.

Right. That was mine, you know?

And I'm not sayin' I'm average. I thought...

I was a motherfucker, so, you know, I can't...

I have yet to see another nigga like, oh, yeah, it is another nigga like me.

And that motherfucker is in the far east corner of the world.

You have to go all the way over there to find another motherfucker like me.

And the average bitch ain't got time to go that far.

[ Laughs ] The bitch got to fuck with me!

[ laughs ] So, you know, but Fillmore, he gave me a lot of game...

And I know that without niggas like Fillmore...

Motherfuckers like me wouldn't have never tried to have nothin"...

Because he was a legend when I turned out.

♪ so good;

♪ so good;

♪ so good, so good 7

When you got two good, seasoned pimps, you know what I mean...

Veteran pimps, man, they can usually work it out by word of mouth.

You know what I'm sayin"? Talkin', verbally, you know?

It don't come down to all that gunplay and you know, fightin' and shit.

'cause we do it with understanding, right?

[ gorgeous dre I we're not no gun toters. We don't do that.

We have a lot of people in the game that have a good mouthpiece. They talk good.

Like my mouth, my mouth is like a uzl, armed and dangerous with a double clip.

[ machine gun fire ] "hey, baby! It's kenny red! I got the bitch!"

You know what I'm sayin"? 1 just gotcha...

If you caught my woman in the game...

Come over, you got the clothes, we sit down, we had a drink...

Shook your hand, I told you her faults, I told...

You how she did, how she handled my business.

Now you tell her how to handle your business.

And we shook hands, and went our separate ways.

Now, hell, man, them thundercats, man...

Gangbangers, you know, motherfuckers on drugs and shit.

They wanna kill you. You know, you go and say...

Woman want to be with you, that's cool.

Next day, they come back, they wanna uzli the whole block. We didn't do that.

[ gorgeous dre ] In the '80s, we had this big old cocaine craze...

And what happened, unfortunately, a lot of the macks back then...

Was caught up in that sweep.

It has changed now because... It is goin' downhill.

They got fools out here! And ho's are payin' anybody!

Youngsters comin' up, some good pimps, up, some of 'em ain't.

Some of 'em don't know if they wanna be killers or guerillas.

A lot of these niggas look like godzilla, you know what I'm sayin'?

What time is it? 3:08 in the morning, you know what I'm sayin'?

Police oughta be gone home, let these ho's get the rest of a pimp's money, you know?

Bitch better be suckin' a dick or fuckin' or suckin' or somethin".

Pimp need money every day. Like a junkie need heroin, you know what I'm sayin'?

And I'm a junkie, and that's my fix...

Money, you know what I'm sayin'?

I need it every day.

Look, that's my, that's my bitch, that's my bottom bitch.

Ain't no traffic. You see that, huh? We'll get...

We'll get somethin' to eat after I get through, huh?

We'll get somethin' to eat after I take care of my business and go home.

All right, bitch? All right.

She just like all the rest of the other bitches, you know what I'm sayin'?

Be jealous, in love and all that kind of shit, you know what I'm sayin'?

It's just natural, I guess, in these '90s, you know what I'm sayin'?

'cause these niggas be makin' deals with bitches.

I mean, tellin' the bitch she can keep half of the money and everything.

That's upgrade. That's upgrade there, my pimp friend.

You know, tellin', lettin' the bitch keep the money...

And all, takin' days off and all that kind of shit.

Bitch asked me could she take mother's day off the other day.

I asked her, "for what?" you know what I'm sayin'?

Yeah, she got a baby. But she got a pimp to pay too, though.

[ Bishop's Sister ] I thought the girls was crazy...

For bein' out there in miniskirts...

And callin' me, tellin' me...

"Call daddy and tell him, can I come in. I'm cold! I'm cold!"

Well, come on in! "I can't, Ann, I can't. 1 got to get this money."

That was crazy to me.

Aw, shit, she done got drunk on me, man.

You know what I mean? Tryin' to drink hennessey like this pimpin".

You know, all ho's always like tryin' to fuck with...

Tryin' to do everything this pimpin' do.

I let her go on and drink some yack. You know, that's my fault...

Lettin' her drink some motherfuckin', too much yack.

I don't drink that much. I'm not sayin' drinkin' too much.

I said you just drunk tonight, right now.

Two drinks. Okay, that was enough. I already knew...

One was enough for you, but you act like you wanted one more.

I said, "okay, it's all good." 1 just want a buzz.

First one didn't even make me... listen, be quiet, bitch!

Feel nothin". Can you be quiet one time?

Yes. Yes, I can.

Drunk or no drunk.

Just be quiet one time and listen! Okay.

I'm gonna let you know why you threw up.

I done taught you everything else you know about this shit, right?

Yep. And about how even to just live, period?

Yep. Okay, then. So then, listen.

Okay.

Goddamn! It's all the fuck you gotta do.

I know you got a little intoxicated...

But you don't need to keep runnin' your mouth, man.

Okay.

[ Jade ] It's a psychological game.

It's, it's more or less like brainwash kind of effect.

Manipulation that come from pimps...

Is 99.9 percent of the game of pimps and ho'in".

[ gorgeous dre ] The type of woman that you dealin' with manipulatin' men.

So if they're out there constantly, on an everyday basis manipulating men...

It is only but natural for them to come home and try to do that to you.

They're in love with that money, okay?

They will rob, beg, steal...

And cheat, okay, long as they have it.

It doesn't matter how special you think you are to them because you're really not.

I love women, you know what I'm sayin'?

That's why some of the motherfuckers is as violent as they are.

And then a motherfucker get mad about...

These little niggas comin' into the game...

Not knowin' what the fuck to do, have a fuckin' clue...

Done heard a couple of rap songs and seen a fuckin' couple of movies...

Of some nigga beatin' some bitch on a movie...

And they think this what the game is about, you know what I'm sayin'?

So they give the game a black eye.

This ain't what the game about, so you can go slap some woman down. That ain't shit.

You're supposed to use your mind. See, when you got to get violent...

Then you headed towards trouble, I mean, you ain't pimpin".

If you got to get violent, you supposed to pimp with your mind, not with this.

I'm not really no woman-beater type of dude.

Now, I will lay my goon hand down. The first time might get a pass...

You know, if I feel like I can pimp at the bitch out the mouth, you know what I mean?

Put my hands in my pocket and the bitch will get the message.

But now if I have to keep going over the same thing over and over again...

I am going to pull it on back for her, comb her head, you know what I mean?

Maybe that'll give her the impression that I'm serious about my money.

If abitch come up and say, "fuck you!"

"I'm tired of you, you faggot motherfucker and your mama's a punk, and..."

Well, how you gonna react?

You gonna react accordingly, right? You gonna cut that bitch's head, right?

Okay well, I'm a do the same thing. I'm cuttin' her head back...

To the fat meat if she disrespect me.

If you tell a chick that you gonna kill her...

She gonna be tryin' to see if you gonna kill her.

She gonna bring something or she gonna do something...

To get your attention in that area.

And when you whup her, you gotta whup her like you tryin' to kill her...

To convince her that she should be dead...

Where she'll beg you, "daddy, please don't kill me like you said you were gonna do."

"I won't do it no more." 'cause they gonna test you, man.

And whatever you say out your mouth, they gonna make sure you stand by that.

Otherwise, you ain't gonna be a good pimp.

There is a time in life that it's necessary...

Or it can be necessary, to hit anybody.

Contrary to that shit about a man should never hit a woman...

Under any circumstances...

Like she can come to your house, burn your house down, beat your mama up...

Kill your dog, but you're not supposed to hit her, that's bullshit.

Believe it or not, as much as a person say that hate to be whupped...

There's women that thought you didn't love her if you didn't whup her.

[ Interviewer ] Why would they think that?

Well, they think that you didn't care...

That you didn't have no compassion...

That you was not showin' any kind of emotional feelin', no matter what they do.

But if you show 'em that you gonna stand on it like a rock?

Man, you gonna have a good hooker.

She's gonna get you your money, man.

♪ one, two, get down ♪

♪ payin' the cost to be the boss ♪

Y'all wanna get off right here, or y'all wanna ride to the marriott?

[ woman ] Keep goin', just slow down a little bit.

♪ I paid the cost to be the boss ♪

♪ look at me ♪ all right.

♪ know what you see 7 hey, man, meet me on time, all right?

This my little waterin' hole, you know what I mean?

I got quite a few of 'em. I have, you know...

I have one in Oregon, you know, where they don't bother a bitch...

I got another one up in Canada and this one here, you know?

And it's like when you really, really, need some money, this is where you come.

It's like where you go get ho's.

I got a spot in Texas where I go. Get me a bitch overnight.

Them bitches is hungry as a motherfucker and wanna leave.

♪ see a bad mother ♪

That's why I came out here, 'cause they lockin' motherfuckers down in vegas.

Chasin' everybody around, a pimp can't send a ho to work.

So a bitch can't be on the track no more, man. These niggas better get it right.

It's about to be 2000, right?

A bitch gonna have to get on the inside, man, if she wanna get some money...

So, you know, it's the transition from goin' from, you know...

Bein' on the track every day to goin' to the motherfuckin', you know, inside game.

You know, massage parlors, escort services and that type of thing.

[ Phone Ringing ]

[ Man ] Anybody who exploits women for profit...

Can be called a pimp, which begins to cover a lot of territory...

Like model agencies, houses of prostitution...

Smut magazines, pornography.

[ gorgeous dre I hugh hefner is one of the biggest pimps, greatest that ever lived.

A pimp is somebody who lives off the earnings of what a woman does.

She doesn't have to be a prostitute. She could be a model.

[ danny brown ] Do you think America thinks heidi fleiss is a leech?

I mean, what does America, America likes heidi fleiss. They like hugh hefner.

They like those people because those people...

Are not what they consider macks.

Those people are businesspeople. In the dictionary...

A pimp is a guy that solicits customers...

For prostitutes or brothels, and I've never done none of that.

[ Man ] I don't consider myself a pimp.

I consider myself a businessman...

That's working within a legal sexual environment.

But once I looked at the dictionary...

I guess I'm not only the pimp, I'm the big pimp...

Because I do bring clients to girls.

Our county legalized prostitution in 1970...

And they're just very far ahead of the rest of the world.

People are not going to be monogamous. We've got 1,000 years of history.

If they're not gonna be monogamous, then let's be smart like the state of Nevada...

Make sure the proper health checks are there...

That the proper criminal background checks are there...

And that the girls are working in a safe, healthy environment...

Where they're not being exploited.

Pull up to the ranch, you walk up to the gate and it says, "ring bell. Have fun."

So you push the button, the cashier lets you in...

And they give you a souvenir menu.

The souvenir menu has everything from appetizers, to-go orders...

Entrees, shame and humiliation...

Bondage, straight sex, suck, fuck whatever you're into, we can accommodate you.

Now, at that point, you come in, then they push a button, and it's a chime.

And then the girls come from everywhere, and they'll walk up to the gentleman...

And say, "hi, my name is vanessa and I like to party."

And she'll take you into the shower and give you something you'll never forget.

There's a stigma that goes with the industry...

Because the sensationalism comes from the 15% of prostitution...

Which is street prostitution.

They don't realize there's high-class girls that are articulate and educated...

Working in the brothel industry.

They don't want to work at bank of America for $800 a month.

They want to work in my bunny ranch for $8,000 a month...

And have the time of their life.

He's never beat my ass behind not givin' him no money.

You can have an opinion about what's gonna take place that day, okay?

If you wanna work or not...

Or if you don't decide to date this one guy...

That maybe looks like he just finished killin' his mother or something, okay?

You do have a choice here. That's the good thing about the ranch.

[ Dennis ] Are these the new dildos we just got in?

Yeah. Look.

All right. Nice stuff. Is that, what is that, a banana?

Yeah. A yellow vibrator and a little pink pussy.

Isn't that nice? Oh, yeah.

[ hof ] You've got horses, you've got women, you've got liquor.

Why would you ever want to leave? I want to stay here till my dying day.

I wanna live to be 100, and I hope I go out...

Havin'a heart attack gettin' the best piece of pussy I ever had.

[ Elevator Bell Dings ]

[ Fillmore Slim ] They just got a legal license to pimp.

[ Gorgeous Dre ] That's the thing that kills me, you know?

You say all this is wrong, except over here, in this particular...

If it's wrong, it's wrong everywhere.

[ rosebudd ] There's a white man up there got ho's like a motherfucker...

And he was on 20/20, I saw him...

And he said, "There's no business like ho business!"

See, and if I would have said that, then I woulda been a damn pimp.

Now he a businessman. So, you know, it's a double standard.

There are good pimps. There are pimps that have two or three ladies...

That have a goal, have a direction...

Trying to get out of the illegal side of it, which it shouldn't be illegal anyway.

Yeah. I, 1, you know, I'm selling pussy...

And it's legal, and it's fun and it's safe.

W-why can't they? And I understand their logic.

But there also, as in everything else, there's bad pimps.

There are bad pimps that are using drugs to control their women...

They're using force, violence.

And when it's all over, and the girl wakes up...

And she's ten years older and got nothing to show for it, it sucks.

[ danny brown ] A lot of those girls, when they get out the life...

And they do something different, they have some bad memories of that life.

I never see any more of "em. Some of 'em is retired...

Some of 'em is dead, some of 'em is dope fiends, some of 'em is crazy.

You know, I do know a couple that went to the crazy house. Yeah, for real.

We used to say, "well, I sent one to the penitentiary..."

"And I sent one to the crazy house."

The thought of gettin' killed by a trick has come across my mind...

I'm sure alot of ho's mind.

Recently, I had a friend, found out about a friend gettin' killed.

Her name was Lisa, and she had been datin' a person.

She went back to his place as usual...

Like a regular routine of her dating him, and he killed her.

They found her bones and they found another ho. I didn't know her.

They found another ho. Her throat was slashed.

[ brown ] I had one woman that I really cared for, and I had her for 12 years.

I used to pray every night this woman went to work that...

Nothing bad would happen to her...

Because if she had gotten killed or some shit...

Which a lot of girls have gone to work and got killed and never did get back home.

And all of the guys I knew that had that happen to them, it fucked they mind up.

They might not have allowed people to know iit...

But it had a bad effect on their mind.

[ Sir Captain ] My old woman, Donna, she...

Was one of my main broads then, black broad.

She got killed in Miami, a trick killed her. He cut her up.

She got killed, and so I wear it on my neck. And when people ask me about it...

People think players or pimps don't have no feelings...

But they got plenty of feelings.

When that happened, I, you know, I went through the motions for a whole year.

And that bother me today. And I can wake up some nights and think about it.

The whole time I was in the game...

I had one girl get killed by the zodiac killer.

Her name was, uh, we called her lady day.

Found her in christy field over there by Sausalito.

It affected me deeply, because when they came and knocked on my door...

You know, the law, they came and knocked on my door.

It really shocked me, see? They came to arrest me, right?

They punishment was they wanted me to see the way he had cut her up.

They said, "you got to stand there and look at her."

So they took me to the morgue...

And let me see the way she was all cut up...

And they made me stand there and look at her.

It really mess your mind up because you got to go to the funeral.

You're scared Togo to the funeral. You don't know...

Soi just sent flowers, 1 just sent money...

I just sent everything I could to the family.

But scared to go...

Because you don't know how they're gonna react.

They say, "well, maybe she wouldn't have got killed if she hadn't been with you."

And by you bein' in the life, you know, they mad at you.

So I just sent the flowers and sent my grief card...

And my deepest sympathy, but I stayed away.

[ Woman ] He claims to be a rap artist and actor...

But andre Taylor is wanted for selling the services...

Of a 16-year-old runaway.

Police say the two have been seen together in Hollywood and San Francisco.

If you have any information on their

Whereabouts, you are urged to call metro police.

[ gorgeous dre ] We're in c.c.d.c., Clark county detention center...

In Las Vegas, Nevada.

I'm in here for two counts of pandering...

Two counts of living with a prostitute...

Two counts of living off the earnings of a prostitute...

One count of first degree kidnapping...

And one count of child endangerment.

The kidnapping holds life by itself.

Life! A million years. You might as well say a million years.

If you get in a situation...

And at that time, if you come to jail for something that you did...

You can't cry then, you know what I'm sayin'?

And if they thought that bringin' me to jail...

Was supposed to strip me of me bein' the man that I am, the man...

Then they badly mistaken, I'm gonna say that.

I don't believe that pimpin' and ho'in' is a criminal act.

I think that it's immoral before god...

But as far as man bein' the judge of that, I don't think they have a right for that.

If it had not been for pimpin' and ho'in', andre Taylor wouldn't be birthed.

I lost everything, you know?

Big ol' house and... everything, you know?

They stripped me of everything. I was allowed to be stripped.

But, if...

What's really important to you...

Is the things that you live your life for, you know...

The man you're being, your character, and if you're willing...

To take the consequences that go along with whatever life you choose...

Then I think at the end, if you still have that...

Then you haven't lost anything at all.

The things that I've lost, you know what I'm sayin"...

Are things that I can get back again.

And whether I'm guilty or not, that doesn't matter right now.

What matters is that I haven't lost being a man.

I was told by one of the greatest pimps that ever lived...

His name is called god, that if you know what you got...

Then you ain't got much.

It wasn't that I quit.

It was one of these things that people talk about all the time...

That I never could understand.

You know, this christianity thing.

But man, out in Los Angeles when god showed me the experience...

That he really do exist, had me to call them girls...

And to tell them girls that I didn't wanna pimp no more...

That it was over for me.

And I hung up the phone and them girls called me back. They said, "why, daddy?"

I said, "I don't know, but god don't want me to do it no more."

God showed me a vision that if I didn't give up the life...

If I didn't change my ways, that I wouldn't have lived another two weeks.

I was smokin'p.c.p., marijuana, I was drinkin' and everything.

I shut all of that down for 12 years, man!

I even pastored a church for three years.

[ c-note I so much shit goes on, it makes me doubt about a god.

Makes me ask, "if there's a god, why am I in the situation I'm in?"

"Why is my family goin' through certain..."

"Situations when I don't think they deserve it?"

Why do good people suffer so much and bad people prosper so much?

[ Ken Red ] When it's all over, said and done...

A pimp ain't got no disability comin', no unemployment comin".

A pimp ain't got a goddamn thing comin' but what he got out the game.

I mean, it's all about you and her.

If anything happens to you...

Or anything happens to her, you up shit creek.

And it's not guaranteed that you gonna have another woman anytime soon.

♪ she shakes all over ♪

♪ when she walks

♪ she makes a blind man see ♪

♪ she makes a dumb man talk ♪

What I'm doin' now, I'm singin' the blues. I'm realizing a dream...

That I had since I was a little boy.

Blues singers and players always looked alike.

I mean, they always wore the same kind of hairstyle, the same kind of clothes.

That's why it's a good transition for me, because I can still dress like this...

And be acceptable as a blues singer.

♪ love me with a feelin' baby ♪

♪ ordon't you love at all;

When you get in the game, you know, you get in the game...

Tryin' to establish yourself, put yourself in a position...

Where you can roll over and do somethin' different.

If you can't do that, then you're gonna wind up...

Bein'a old man with grey hair...

No ho's, no money and just some old war stories.

[ rosebudd I when I first started pimpin', I decided that the last ho I had...

I was gonna have that bitch as my wife, if she wanted to be my wife.

So I had to pimp until I only had one bitch, which was like 20 years.

I married her, got a daughter.

I'm a real big square, you know?

L-7 like a motherfucker. Connect l-7 together and you'll see a big ol' square.

[ Laughs ]

You'll be lookin' at rosebudd. [ Laughs ]

So, you know, I'm happy with it.

I do envy my brothers still...

'cause they out there pimpin', havin' ho's, you know, doin' some fly shit.

And I would really love to be out there, but, you know...

My daughter be needin' diapers and I have to go get em. I'm like that.

[ Interviewer ] What do you do now?

Actually, I do some telemarketing.

I'm a telemarketing supervisor at telemarketing, I'll admit.

I never imagined myself being able to do anything on a continuous basis...

Other than pimpin', because I never had a job in my life.

And you can't be no pimp if you're not really down every day.

You got to believe you ain't gonna do nothin' else but pimp...

Or else you ain't gonna be no pimp.

Eleven fifty.

Eleven sixty-one.

Man, it was mother's day. I did lovely.

I wish I could have talked to my mother and told her how lovely I did.

They think I coulda did a whole bunch of things with my intelligent brain...

Other than tryin' to send these bitches...

But this is what I chose to do, this is what I'm doin".

I had it hard. I wasn't able to go to college, things like that, but I will be.

It takes time, it takes motivation, it takes willpower...

It takes brains, it takes know-how, you understand?

And my brain could be used for lots of things.

Until I get the money to do these things...

I'm not gonna stand in your McDonald's, you know what I mean?

I'm not gonna sweep up your floors and wipe down your toilets...

You know what I mean, for nothin'. Fuck you.

[ Fireworks exploding ]

[ Fillmore Slim ] I'll tell America and the whole world...

Pimpin' and ho'in' is here to stay.

Providin' a public service. Ain't hurtin' nobody, why not?

All the folks makin' a law-abidin' pussy ain't down.

Pussy gonna sell, with cotton and cornwall.

[ schauntte ] A person haven't really lived till they pimped on a ho.

Rolled by and watched her standin' out there, you know...

Takin' all them chances to bring you the money.

I promote smiles, okay? Not frowns.

Everybody likes it. They love sex. We all love to fuck.

I don't feel bad about pimpin'.

You know, I feel like it's an honor to be doin' what I'm doin".

It's alot of motherfuckers that wish they could do what we do.

[ bishop ] I had the greatest job that anybody could have. You know why?

[ Interviewer ] Why?

Because I could open and close on any corner when I got ready.

The only regrets I have about the game is that I didn't save any money.

[ Chuckles ]

I am what I am, but I'm still a father and I still want my kids to be good.

If they can make it, I'm proud. I'll quit pimpin"...

For a day if they finish college.

I lived the life. I lived the game.

I paid my dues. I been to four penitentiaries. I have no regrets.

I'm not gonna use this as a situation to say, "oh, you see, I'm in jail..."

"And this is the result of pimpin'."

No, no, no. You don't got no sad story like that.

I'm gonna say to that 16 or 17-year-old who wants to pimp...

The chances of him not doin' it right are very high...

And not being successful are very high.

The pimp game is a lonely one.