WOW! Spike Jonze is making a movie of “Where the Wild things Are”, one of my favourite childrens’ books! The beasts, i’ve heard, are going to be animatronic with cgi faces pasted on. Sounds gash but it does work. Benicio Del Toro; Forrest Whitaker voice two of the wild things. Great Stuff - can’t wait till 2008!
I saw this film a few nights ago. An unpimped story about a pimp. The film took a sympathetic angle and also unearthed a few points about the resurrection of hip hop.
Now the word pimp itself is thought to come from the 6th century French verb pimper, which means “alluring or seducing in outward appearance or dress”.
The word pimp and pimpin’ has today been encrusted with ghetto cool. But, as the only white character says, hip hop and rap isn’t about the big chains, the super-suspension cars and flash brands. It’s soul is in its roots grown from captivity, suppression and sex. Also that “every man deserves to give this world a verse”.
So I ain’t gonna turn this into an essay, but finish with some words from the celebrity ‘pimp’ himself, Snoop Dog.
Pussy is my dish and I’m fishin, wishin
upon a star, to come up on some ends
but she caviar, and I let her bet her pussy
so I can get my pimp on
Cause my pen gets my pimp on from G to ozone.
