excitement is doing something wrong. I don’t know the answer to that question. I’d have to think about it, but I know it’s the oldest profession in this country. And a whole bunch of squares sittin’ up there in Congress and in the Senate and in the White House are indulging, believe that. You’re married, aren’t you? Yeah, I’m married. I think any successful man over 30 years old that’s not married should ask himself a question about why he’s not. I got kids. I’m a family dude. Do you think it’s difficult for your wife and kids, having a husband and father that’s on the road a lot? And being famous you have a lot of women that will do whatever you want – do you think that puts a strain on the relationship or is there enough trust there that it’s not really a factor? It’s extremely difficult. Anytime you’re absent it puts a strain on things. Fortunately, though, I didn’t marry no square. I didn’t marry a person that has false expectations about what I’m about and who I am, and most importantly, I didn’t marry someone that I would have to change into something different. And she’s not tryin’ to change me into something different than I am or the person that she met. I think the mistake people make is getting wit’ folks and thinking they’re gonna change them into what they want them to be later on. That’s not reality. In my case, my wife ain’t no square. You can’t run any type of game on my wife. She ain’t gon’ fall for the okey-doke, you know what I mean? A mouth can say anything. The devil is a liar. When you do shows, do you have groupies coming up and saying crazy things to try to get with you? People don’t really talk to me crazy. I think real recognize real, and folks are gon’ try you on every level. They’re gonna see how far they can go with you. I don’t really have no wild stories about nobody coming at me sideways. And you know, life is a buffet table. Just cause it’s layin’ out there on the table, you aren’t gonna eat everything out there, are you? You’ll get sick, right? How do you decide which plates to try on the buffet table? As far as I’m concerned, I’m not even in the game. I’m like the square guy, and again, I’m not no freak. Even when I was in the game, I wasn’t tryin’ to have no ménage a trios and all that type of shit. I’m not tryin’ to wake up in the room with three or four people. I never was no superfreak type of dude. I’m pretty much a normal guy. That might sound boring, I know. No, but people might have those expectations of you because of things you talk about on your records. Yeah, but even from my name, if my name was true in the sense of the word “pimp,” it ain’t about layin’ up. The women are supposed to get their rocks off with the trick, man. It’s really not about that, and in my case, I’m not a pimp. I’ve never been a pimp and I have yet to meet a bitch who’s pussy can make enough money to sustain my lifestyle. I have $200,000 on my neck. I haven’t met a bitch who’s pussy can sustain this jewelry game I’m putting down and this car game that I’ve got. If there is one, I want to meet her! At the end of the day, all the pimps that I know are really tryin’ to get out of that game and tryin’ to get into something legal. And the drug dealers I meet are tryin’ to get out of the drug game and do something legal cause they’re tired of looking over their shoulder. Do you think prostitution is degrading to women and exploiting them, or do you think they make the decision themselves? It depends. If a woman is with a man and she’s giving him her all and she’s giving all her money to him and she isn’t seeing anything in return – she’s not living in a nice home, she’s not having progress in her life, she’s not getting taken care of, things are not happening for her, she’s wearing Payless shoes and he’s wearing Louis Vuitton – there’s an imbalance there, don’t you think? That’s wrong, that’s not what it’s supposed to be about. It’s not supposed to be about one person prospering and the rest of the people doin’ the work and being dirt poor, being all the way broke down. [A pimp] is supposed to manage their money. A lot of folks don’t know how to pay their own bills and don’t know how to save their money, so they need a motivator to make them get out there and get it. If you’re goin’ out there and gettin’ it, if you a broad that makes a thousand dollars a night and you work six or seven nights a week, that’s $6,000 or $7,000 a week. If you’re wearing Payless shoes and this dude is driving a Rolls Royce and wearing hand-cut suits, it’s an imbalance there. And let’s be clear about something right now: pimpin’ ain’t got nothing to do with no violence. Any man that’s got to put a hand on a woman, he done ran out of shit to tell her. The only time a man uses their hands is when they brain and they mouth aren’t working with one another. A good pimp don’t have to use his hands with a woman. I don’t hit no women. The
only broads I ever hit was broads that hit me first [laughs]. What do you think is the key to controlling a woman’s mind? I couldn’t tell you that, cause I’m not a woman and I’m not a mind controller. My thing is, if a woman is risking her life every day and goin’ out there and [selling pussy], she should be living in a comfortable place. She should have the best clothes money can buy, and her kids should be in a private school and well taken care of. If you wearin’ hand-cut suits, she should be wearin’ mink, man. And if you ain’t learned that part of the game then you not really in it at all, are you? At the end of the day, that’s not just a broad that’s workin’ out there, that’s your woman. You’ve got to let her know that she’s your woman, no matter what lifestyle you’re in and what you’re doing. If she don’t feel special, you’re going to blow her. She goin’ to move on. It might not be this year, but it’s going to happen. The misconception is that the [pimpin’] game is “cop n’ blow.” Get a broad and hold her and just blow her. But that’s not the game. The game is not “cop n’ blow.” The game is cop, lock, and get her to sock it to your pocket and give her something in return that she can hold on to. You asked me if it’s degrading? It can be, yeah, if it’s done the wrong way. But I got more respect for a woman that gets some money to have sex and protect herself than a woman who falls in love with a new nigga every year and fucks with no rubber and at the end of the month calls the nigga talkin’ about give her some money for rent. Bitch, you just a hoe deferred. I’ve got more respect for a call girl and a prostitute than a bitch that’s dancing in the club for dollar bills; a bitch that only goes to work on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday the broad just smokes weed in the house and don’t work. If you dancing for dollars and showing everything you got for some dollar bills, you garbage. You a hoe, you just ain’t out on the stroll. I’m gonna name some celebrity woman and you can theorize what they would be like in bed – I don’t think that’s a good thing to do. That’s not fair to them, cause if I don’t know them, it would be hard to tell you what I think. And you need to print that I wouldn’t do that. And another reason is that some of these ladies that you name might have relationships with guys that I know, and it would be disrespectful for me to talk in a sexual way about one of my friend’s wives or girlfriends. I think it’s a very disrespectful thing for men to lust over their friends’ or associates’ women, even after a woman is not with a man anymore. If she was with a guy that you are associated with, it is against all morals for you to have a sexual or any type of relationship with that woman. Do you agree or not? I agree, but it’s funny that you would have a moral issue with that but you don’t have a moral issue with prostitution. Prostitution is not personal at all. You don’t think sex is personal? It depends on the way it’s done and the expectations that are put on upfront before it goes down. If a woman knows that she is a prostitute and that man knows that he is a trick and they know that they’re doing business with each other, what’s the difference between that and sellin’ somebody drugs? All you’re doing is providing a service that’s going to be provided by someone, regardless. You have a young daughter, right? When she gets to an age where she’s starting to learn about sex, what do you plan on teaching her? I would hope that my daughter would at least get with a man that’s on my level or above my status in life. If she gets anybody that’s anything close to how I am, she’s gonna be alright, cause I’m one of the most respectful people you could ever meet in person on a one-on-one level. My records is not my place to try to raise people. I don’t try to be nice on records. I’m Pimp C the character on records, but that’s not how I treat people in the streets. I’m really a respectful dude til you rub me the wrong way. I’m gonna lace my daughter up to know the difference between a real dude and a fake. I want her to understand when somebody’s tryin’ to run some fugazi game on her and when a person is being genuine with her. Make no mistake, though, you can’t be naïve. Kids are gonna do what we did as kids and they’re gonna experiment. So I’m gonna lace her up and let her know, if you’re gonna do this, do it this way. Know that if you’re gonna do this, this is gonna be the outcome. When you do get in a bind and get in trouble, come talk to me cause I’m not gonna be the judge and jury. I’m going to be your father and help you through it. The problem is, a lot of times parents get demonized because if you go to them and tell them what’s going on, the parents look down on [their kids]. You can’t do that because then they’ll freeze you out and won’t tell you what’s going on in their minds. I’m not sayin’ that it’s good for you to be your kid’s friend, where they can play with you, but you need to be on a level where they can talk to you or you’re not gonna be effective in their life. 79