RACINE, Wis. ” Bookworms, rejoice. You too can have a cool MTV ride ” for your books. As a fresh way to reach young people, the local library has offered teens a ...

Urban lit are the type of books that normally take place in a big city, and can take on dark undertones, demonstrating the gritty side of urban living. These books can be graphic, explicit, and don’t ...

Cash Money Records' newly-founded publishing arm, Cash Money Content, has announced that it will re-release Iceberg Slim's groundbreaking 1969 novel 'Pimp: The Story of My Life' on May 10. The ...

Considered one of the pioneers of Southern hip-hop, Pimp C's legacy continues to live on thanks to people like Julia Beverly, publisher and editor-in-chief of Ozone Magazine, who has penned the late ...

Robert “Iceberg Slim” Beck wrote dozens of cheap paperback novels, which sold millions of copies. His first book, 1967’s “Pimp: The Story of My Life,” made him a literary star. A dozen books followed, ...

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In the late 1960s and early ’70s, if you wanted a book by Iceberg Slim, the best-selling black writer in America, you didn’t go to a bookstore. You went to a black-owned barbershop or liquor store or ...

Iceberg Slim is an influential cult writer who many readers have never read. His vivid and relentless autobiography, “Pimp: The Story of My Life,” from 1967, tells of the quarter century the author ...

In the early 1990s, U.G.K. — it stood for "Underground Kingz — was one of the most important hip-hop acts in Texas. Bun B (Bernard Freeman) and Pimp C (Chad Butler) specialized in lurid tales of ...