PIMPIN’ HARD or PERPETUATING BULLSHIT?

Seems like everyone wants to be a P.I.M.P these days.
50 Cents latest single “PIMP” is in heavy rotation on your F.M. dial - television - etc. Even If I never - ever step out to the club or play my radio again, I’ll still have no choice but to hear the song blasting from some ones car - or at a Bar-B-Que - or at the corner market - or the barbershop - or the teenager on the bus with her headphones cranked up to 10.
The song is everywhere. White folks love it too. The instrumental sounds like some shit you would hear on a cruise ship. I wouldn’t be suprised if 10 years from now 50 Cents’ “PIMP” is transformed into elevator music. You know they play the classics!

Jay Z’s talking about Big Pimpin’ - Chi Towns Do or Die rhymed about “Po’ Pimpin’ “ - R Kelly is on some pimp shyt he even did a nice little routine for us on BET’s music awards. Too Short and Snoop Dogg are on some PIMP shyt - and the list goes on and on and on and on. Books on Pimpin’ and film documentaries such as HBO’s “Pimps Up Hoes Down” and The Hughes Brothers “American Pimp” are as popular as ever. People seem to be fascinated by the lifestyle of pimps and hoes. They always have been and always will be (intrigued). But, does the evil that men do, deserve props?

The harsh reality often overlooked, is that Pimps are more than colorful characters out of a Blaxplotation film. Essentially, they flesh peddlers that prey on the minds of weak women, women that may have already suffered other forms of abuse in their lives. Their attitude towards the treatment of women is sickening. There is nothing noble or heroic about abusing or manipulating another human being. So why do so many of us, including myself, embrace the pimp game as a form of entertainment? Is this as good as our lives get?

David Banner and Lil Flip’s “Like a Pimp” keeps the dance floors in the Midwest krunk! Never mind that the lyrics are straight up offensive to any woman that gives a damn. I guess It feels damn good to shake your ass in the club after you’ve worked hard all week getting “pimped” by the “man”. Many times I’m right along with the program, disregarding the lyrics and riding the track with a drink in my hand. Sadly, I’ve become desensitized to garbage I’m listening to. I’m enjoying garbage - trash that degrades me and my women folk. In one breath I’m demanding RESPECT and in the next I’m bouncing around “Like A Pimp” - downloading misogynistic songs on KAAZA every chance I get.

What does that say about me? I’ll have to think about it and get back to you.

Noooow Lil Jon is in his videos gripping a “PIMP CUP”. These goblets are popping up in the hands of all kinds of ugly little no-named negros trying to walk- talk-and act like a pimp. But what are they really representing? Commonplace, ghetto bullshyt, that’s what. And I’m still waiting for my “PIMP CUP”! But I must have some exclusive shit, none of that homemade “knock-off” - internet bootleg - advertised in the back of the SOURCE magazine crap-o-la. Ya dig? None of the cups I’ve seen online or videos look like the one I’m waiting on. I’ve said it before - It’s a cold cold world. I’m just trying to get in where I fit in. Or am I really just copping out? I’ll get back to you on that, I got some hoes to “check”.

*shouting* ” BITCH! *pimp slap* WHERE’S MY EXCLUSIVE PIMP CUP ?

Linkage:
1: IceBerg Pimp Cups
2:Custom Cups
3:Some Mo’ PIMP-GOBLETS
4:Just a few more “PIMP CUPS”
5:Are you still looking for a “PIMP CUP” ?
6:PIMP FICTION White boys who think the pimp game is funny.