The Pimp became an icon in African American culture and film in the Blaxploitation era. Definitively, "the Black Pimp icon is a reactionary image that emerges from the actual prostitution of female bodies that occurs in oppressed communities" Osayande Though I doubt glorification of sexual exploitation was part of Melvin van Peebles's original idea when he introduced the genre with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song in , Hollywood certainly latched onto the sexuality portion and exploited it for increased revenue at the box office. The Black Pimp as interpreted by the Hollywood imagination is a macho, leather-wearing, handsome, financially secure, sexually viable man who is somehow above the law; in some cases, he is the law! He kills many men and sexually satisfies scores of women with the emotions of an iceberg and looks good while doing them both.

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