P Nutty da Pimp

A Chicago-born Los Angeles pimp who told Soft White Underbelly he learned the trade from Iceberg Slim in jail and now "mentors" younger men.

P Nutty da Pimp is the subject of "Pimp interview-P Nutty da Pimp," a Soft White Underbelly video published on the channel's YouTube page. He says he was born on the South Side of Chicago, the only child of a beautician "real keen on education," and moved to Los Angeles at twelve.

His account of getting in is more candid about failure than most. He says at fifteen he had a girl who was "a dope fiend" but brought money; at sixteen he tried to convince women at a Motel 6 he could show them how to earn and "didn't know what I was talking about." He says he then went to jail, read Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim there, and at twenty met a woman in a co-ed halfway house who "recognized me" and gave him $75; they took bus tokens to Sunset and La Brea, "the first blade that I worked." He says he was "green as a pool table."

On the women: the most he had was four, "a headache." He says "a prostitute is like your wife," that he fed and housed them, and that a working woman talks to "nobody but tricks, they daddy, and maybe the clerk at the Burger King." He lists robbery, rape and kidnapping as hazards of the street without saying he protected anyone from them. He says he is now retired, mentoring younger men, and calls the game "a temporary stepping stone" that "takes a toll."

ALSO KNOWN AS
Not established; appears only as P Nutty da Pimp

BORN
Says he was born on the South Side of Chicago

STATUS
Living

ERA
Says he started at 20 on Sunset Boulevard; interview undated on the channel's catalogue

ASSOCIATED WITH
South Side Chicago; Los Angeles (Sunset, Figueroa, Hollywood); Soft White Underbelly

STANDING
Persona