mrghd
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(source: Iceberg Slim –Pimp, The Story of my life)
Section that contains the expression:
“A good pimp is like a slick white boss. He don't ever pair two of a kind for long. He don't ever pair two new bitches. He ain't stuck 'em for no long scratch. A pair of new bitches got too much in common. They'll beef to each other and pool their skull, plots, and split to the wind together.
The real glue that holds any bitch to a pimp is the long scratch she's hip she's stuck for. A good pimp could cut his swipe off and still pimp his ass off. Pimping ain't no sex game. It's a skull game.”
Background:
Slim is being taught by Sweet Jones the great master pimp. Sweet is talking about how a pimp can keep a girl at his side for a long time to make her earn as much money as possible. Sweet emphasizes that it is erroneous to think that making love with a girl and waking up emotions in her is a good way of keeping a whore. He rather thinks that ‘the real glue…is the long scratch she’s hip she’s stuck for’
But what does that supposed to mean? (I am completely at sea with the interpretation.)
PS. The novel plays in the criminal underworld of Chicago in the 30-40s and all the here mentioned characters are Afro-Americans
Section that contains the expression:
“A good pimp is like a slick white boss. He don't ever pair two of a kind for long. He don't ever pair two new bitches. He ain't stuck 'em for no long scratch. A pair of new bitches got too much in common. They'll beef to each other and pool their skull, plots, and split to the wind together.
The real glue that holds any bitch to a pimp is the long scratch she's hip she's stuck for. A good pimp could cut his swipe off and still pimp his ass off. Pimping ain't no sex game. It's a skull game.”
Background:
Slim is being taught by Sweet Jones the great master pimp. Sweet is talking about how a pimp can keep a girl at his side for a long time to make her earn as much money as possible. Sweet emphasizes that it is erroneous to think that making love with a girl and waking up emotions in her is a good way of keeping a whore. He rather thinks that ‘the real glue…is the long scratch she’s hip she’s stuck for’
But what does that supposed to mean? (I am completely at sea with the interpretation.)
PS. The novel plays in the criminal underworld of Chicago in the 30-40s and all the here mentioned characters are Afro-Americans