On, he released "Too Much Money", featuring Banky W., under G-Worldwide, which became a hit track and earned him two nominations at The Headies 2012, for Best Rap Single, and Lyricist on the Roll category, shortly after he relocated back to Nigeria, to pursue his career full-time in the industry. Same year, Iceberg features Da Grin on "I Made It", produced by Sarz. It was used in Season 1, Episode 2 for a total of 60secs, says the Ghanaian blogger Ameyaw Debrah. In 2010, Iceberg recorded "Blue Bloods" for the American CBS original Crime-Drama series, Blue Bloods. In 2009, he recruited, the American rapper Ja Rule on the remix of "Plenty Money", as one of the lead singles off his online mixtape titled The Fix, which features Ja Rule, Sauce Kid, Banky W., eLDee, and Rico White, the same year. In 2009, he fearued on the remix of Banky W., song "Lagos Party", with Naeto C, D'Banj, 9ice, eLDee & Muna. Same year, he performed at the Apollo Theater, in Harlem, New York City. On 25 December 2008, he features on "Big Boy (rap remix)" by eLDee, alongside Rukus and Proto of Chiddy Bang, from the Big Boy studio album, released on 21 August 2008, by eLDee.
In 2008, he released his mixtape Soul Food, with featuring guess vocals from Sauce Kid, Zara, and Blak Jesus. He attended Christ Apostolic Church in New York, where he learnt the keyboard. Basically, everything from audio to video. In the course of his study, he tells This Day, "I learnt a lot about music production, video production, and editing. Olusegun quest for music made him drop-out from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, after two years of enrollment, with his plan to become an FBI agent to attend Institute of Audio Research, to pursue his career as an audio engineer, and music producer. Slim died on April 28, 1992, he was 73 years-old.Īre you the author profiled here? Email us your official website or Let us host your primary web presence.Iceberg Slim was born Olusegun Olowokere, in New York City on 8 August to Nigerian parents. Pimp was eventually translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Greek. His wife encouraged Slim to write the story of his life as a novel.īentley Morris of Holloway House recognized the merit of Pimp, and it was published in 1967.īy 1973, it had been reprinted 19 times and had sold nearly 2 million copies. He met his common-law wife while he was working as an insecticide salesman. He moved to Los Angeles and changed his name to Robert Beck, taking the last name of the man his mother was married to at the time. When verbal instruction and psychological manipulation failed to keep his women in line, he beat them with wire hangers in his autobiography, he fully concedes he was a ruthless, vicious man.Īfter serving time in prison, Iceberg Slim believed he was too old for the life of pimping, unable to compete with younger, more ruthless pimps. He said he was known for his frosty temperament, and at 6’2" and 180 lbs, he was indeed slim, and he had a reputation for staying calm in sticky situations, thus earning the street name Iceberg Slim. The book claimed that during his career, he had over 400 women, both black and white, working for him. was born in Chicago, Illinois.Īccording to his memoir, Pimp, Slim started pimping at 18 and continued until age 42. Iceberg Slim born Robert Lee Maupin or Robert Moppins, Jr.
The tone of his fiction has been acknowledged as an influence by, Ice T. Iceberg Slim (Aug– April 28, 1992), was a pimp who subsequently became an author. Iceberg Slim is a Top 100 Bestselling Author Making Our List 7 Times
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