![]() I found a tatty old copy of Trick Baby in another shop it had long been out of print in the UK. ![]() Later I learned that Slim had produced novels, too. How could you not pick up a book called Pimp written by a guy named Iceberg Slim? The narrative had wit, verve, rage and humour. I picked up his autobiography, Pimp: The Story of My Life, in a secondhand bookshop in Soho. But wherever I travelled, a more surprising writer - a Chicagoan called Iceberg Slim - remained one of my biggest influences. And then I looked further afield, to Beckett and Tolstoy and so on. Then I looked further back, to James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Robert Burns. Kelman's insistence on an authentic voice was particularly liberating. James Kelman and Alasdair Gray, in their different ways, took McIlvanney's approach to a new level. He wrote about people I could identify with, and they were the central characters, the stars of the show, not token villains or comedians. William McIlvanney, the author of Laidlaw and other books set in Glasgow, was a revelation. To get past this means that invisible barriers have to be broken down: I found the inspiration to do that under my nose, in Scotland. This, of course, was nonsense, and I can see now that I was looking for reasons to fail, as one does when failure is the cultural expectation. So Waugh was inspirational, but he was also prohibitive - he confirmed that you had to be posh and wealthy to be a writer. The Ernest Hemingway and Jack London cult of the macho writer pretty much passed me by: I thought them all very well for the wild frontier lands of America, but writers in Britain were supposed to be like Evelyn Waugh. Waugh - who conjured worlds so different from my background - became, and remains, one of my favourite writers. My own writer's journey probably started with Evelyn Waugh, via my Uncle Jack, a fireman, who was taking an Open University degree course. Often not brilliant books, but none the less they circulated. In small, systems-built flats there is scant room for bookcases, so in the housing scheme where I grew up, books were passed around. Thank you.Like many people from a "non-bookish culture" I was probably always a writer, but I didn't know how to become one. I choose not to be friends with you for my own sanity and personal reasons so please do refrain from contacting me. This is the last time I will answer to any of your posts about me or senseless cover songs directed at me on your social media pages, shebi na cheat you cheat you no kill pesin? Can you now take a bow and exit the stage? This is all stale and I don’t need no more of your negativity and toxicity in, nor around my life now. Put a halt to all the Emails pleading for my presence to discuss the past and do seek a professional therapist to help you overcome the trauma you’re currently experiencing.įYI, Singing cover songs about cheating and exes is NOT a form of therapy. Refrain from harrassing my life with your narcissistic need for validation. You are forgiven, please let me be after this public announcement and move on with your life just like I have. ![]() Your emails still come through in my Junk mail and I have no idea why you would expect a response when I made it clear to you that I want nothing to do with you. I made it clear to you when I left you that I have no hard feelings against you and I wish you well as we both move on with our lives, yet even though I’ve blocked you from contacting me on various platforms, you still find ways to reach out or refer to me in posts on your social media pages. Somehow, you still find ways to publicly get my attention through several means. Iceberg Slim, Our relationship ended 2 years ago as a result of your wayward opportunistic and unfaithful nature. O all my loyal fans and friends, I am only addressing thSis now because I am fed up of the constant dragging of my name, it has to stop. Juliet added that she has forgiven him but wants nothing to do with him anymore She revealed that she has no hard feelings for him and is tired of getting emails and messages from him despite blocking him on various platforms. According to her, she has made it clear to the rapper to stop trying to get attention publicly. The actress took to her Instagram page in a very lengthy post to call out the rapper for always dragging her name on social media. ![]() The ex-girlfriend of Nigerian rapper, Iceberg Slim, Juliet Ibrahim is fed up with all the attention she has been receiving because of him.
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