Iceberg Slim

Person · Open Library

Born

1918

Died

1992

Works

17

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1963-07-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,627

Total plays

9,669

Born Robert Lee Maupin (August 4, 1918 – April 30, 1992), and also known as Robert Beck, he is best known as Iceberg Slim, an African American author known for his hard edged tales of urban life. After dropping out of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute in 1937, he eventually started pimping in the brutal Chicago underworld, soon becoming successful in the trade. After several stints behind bars, and watching his mother die of cancer, he eventually gave up "the life", and a debilitating heroin addic

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Methodological index for non‐randomized studies (<i>MINORS</i>): development and validation of a new instrument

   · 2003 · cited 6,829x

2. Wireless Communications Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

   · 2019 · cited 3,063x

3. Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead

   · 2020 · cited 3,031x

4. Digital Communication Over Fading Channels

   · 2002 · cited 2,893x

5. What should 6G be?

   · 2020 · cited 1,642x

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Quotes

• “It’s hard to square an emotional debt.”
• “Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.”
• “I’m here tonight appearing before you as a well individual, free of the street poison that put me into the kind of position where I brutalized and exploited our Black queens. You have to have a realization that when you exploit your own kind … you are, in effect, counterrevolutionary; that you are hobbling and crippling the struggle of Black people for freedom and dignity.”

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