Doctor Dre

Today Rosebudd is again a man in demand, with full magazine spreads in glossy magazines like Gallery and While You Were Sleeping. He's also done a ton of press for the Hughes Brothers, speaking to reporters on almost a daily basis for outlets like CNN and ABC. With a movie adaption of Iceberg Slim's autobiography "Pimp" (starring Ice Cube) due in 2001, and rap music's persistent idealization of the pimp, Rosebudd just may be able to parlay his 15 minutes of fame into a substantial career as an author. Interest in his former profession is high, and why not? It is one of the oldest professions, even if not the oldest.


"Every major city in the United States still has pimpin' going on, just like in the '50s, '60s and '70s," says Rosebudd. "You see, not everyone in the ghetto can sing or play sports or act. There are kids that grow up looking for glamour, and they don't have any avenue for it except street shit. They start out playing dice or whatever. But in the course of making that money they run into different types of hustlers. Mostly they gravitate toward the pimp because of his cars, his diamonds, his girls. All this means excitement to a young dude.


"The pimp is the mightiest hustler of all in the ghetto. Because you know a gambler, a pool hustler, a car thief -- anybody will do anything for some pussy. And the pimp is the guy who's selling it -- getting paid before he gets some himself." As Fillmore Slim, a grand old San Francisco pimp, says in "American Pimp," "Pussy gonna sell when cotton and corn won't." Like it or not, pimpin' and hoin' are here to stay, even after the legendary macks like Rosebudd pass away.

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