The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Iceberg Slim
The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Iceberg Slim
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The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

Author: Iceberg Slim

Narrator: Bobby Spears

Unabridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2014

Synopsis

In The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, the fierce and lyrical icon for criminal reformation describes himself as "ill…from America's fake fa├ºade of justice and democracy." For Iceberg Slim, the illness may have been a detriment, but for us it's a gift. His tales serve as a chilling reminder that we are all inmates of one prison or another, and the time to break free has arrived. Iceberg Slim's story is now depicted in a major motion picture, Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, which shows his transformation from pimp to the author of seven classic books.Offering brutal, difficult-to-swallow tales from the underground, this book exposes the author's inner workings in a way none of his others have, resulting in a straight-out, heartfelt confession.As if Iceberg Slim's charismatic words weren't enough to evoke the essence of this time in his life—the LA underground of the 1960s—each character carries their own baggage, struggles, and influence on Slim's vision of the world.

About Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim  (1918–1992), a.k.a. Robert Beck, was born in Chicago and initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping, until he was forty-two. After several stints in jail, culminating in a ten-month stay in Cook County, he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. With a family to feed, he folded his life into the pages of Pimp, which emerged as a definitive chronicle of street life. Slim was catapulted into the public eye as a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. He published six more books based on his life and different aspects of the ghetto black, pimp community. Slim died at age seventy-three in 1992, one day before the Los Angeles riots.

About Bobby Spears

Bobby Spears Jr. is a multimedia personality whose career has spanned the arenas of radio, theater, and the World Wide Web. In translating his distinctive brand to the mainstream, he has perfected the unique ability to captivate wider, more diverse audiences without compromising authenticity. Bobby holds a BA in communications from Howard University and is currently a radio personality on WURD Radio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna on August 01, 2012

I’d heard of Iceberg Slim, the pimp, but I never heard of Iceberg Slim, the writer. In the Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim, recalls his early life as a young boy raised by his mother, abandoned by his father who among other things threw his young son against the wall. He le......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on March 07, 2023

Iceberg Slim had class consciousness and that doesn’t get talked about much in discussions about him. I think many people might be surprised how radical Iceberg actually was. The Naked Soul Of Iceberg Slim is his unfiltered view of race, class, and America. Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) wasn’t a gimmic......more

Goodreads review by Damion on February 07, 2019

Powerful stuff and even funny at times. Dave Chapelle probably made this book even more famous by doing a long routine about it on Netflix. From some people it's a world that they will never get. For most it's a world that others will want to shy away from. But the sex drive will not go away. And as......more

Goodreads review by Marty on March 29, 2014

It took me a long time to find this book. I live in NYC but couldn't get it from the library--that may be different now. Also, for some reason, I had trouble finding it on Amazon-- that also may be different now. In any case, when I found it, I found it riveting. Like "The Autobiography of Malcolm X......more

Goodreads review by Tosh on December 29, 2007

A really interesting collection of essays by the great Black American writer (and Pimp) Iceberg Slim. What's fascinating is the fact that he comes from a different generation than the Black Panthers (these essays I believe werer written in the 60's) and he's sort of dealing with the more angry gener......more

Quotes

“One of the greatest black writers in American history.” Ice-T

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