It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp#0
Posted: 3/6/06 at 4:58pm
What a disgrace that this peice of garbage was even nominated. It is the only thing about last night that was upsetting. Ladies and Gentlemen; Academy Award winning lyrics;
You know it's hard out here for a pimp (you ain't knowin)
When he tryin to get this money for the rent (you ain't knowin)
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent (you ain't knowin)
] Because a whole lot of bitches talkin s**t (you ain't knowin)
] Will have a whole lot of bitches talkin s**t (you ain't knowin)
In my eyes I done seen some crazy thangs in the streets
Gotta couple hoes workin on the changes for me
But I gotta keep my game tight like Kobe on game night
Like takin from a ho don't know no better, I know that ain't right
Done seen people killed, done seen people deal
Done seen people live in poverty with no meals
It's ****ed up where I live, but that's just how it is
It might be new to you, but it's been like this for years
It's blood sweat and tears when it come down to this ****
I'm tryin to get rich 'fore I leave up out this bitch
I'm tryin to have thangs but it's hard fo' a pimp
But I'm prayin and I'm hopin to God I don't slip, yeah
[Chorus]
Man it seems like I'm duckin dodgin bullets everyday
Niggaz hatin on me cause I got, hoes on the tray
But I gotta stay paid, gotta stay above water
Couldn't keep up with my hoes, that's when **** got harder
North Memphis where I'm from, I'm 7th Street bound
Where niggaz all the time end up lost and never found
Man these girls think we prove thangs, leave a big head
They come hopin every night, they don't end up bein dead
Wait I got a snow bunny, and a black girl too
You pay the right price and they'll both do you
That's the way the game goes, gotta keep it strictly pimpin
Gotta have my hustle tight, makin change off these women, yeah
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#1
Posted: 3/6/06 at 4:59pmI think Stewart put things very succinctly last evening.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#2
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:00pmI am happy that the life-long struggle of "the pimp" is finally being talked about.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#3
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:00pmI know. But I am still outraged.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#4
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:00pmExcept that Scorcese was never nominated for Best Song, so they really have nothing to do with each other.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#5
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:01pmIt still sucks the big wad.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#6
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:01pm
The next big musical:
"Pimpin' Aint Easy" with the opening number "It's hard out here for a pimp".
If it won the academy award, it might just win the Tony!
Joined: 12/31/69
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#7
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:02pm
Kringas, who made the Scorcese comment originaly?
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#8
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:02pmWell I'm assuming there's nothing we can do about it, so shouldn't we spend our time trying to care about things we actually can change?
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#9
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:03pm
Jon Stewart.
It still sucks the big wad.
Why? Because the award went to a hip-hop song? Just a few years ago the award went to a song with the riveting lyrics "Near. Far. Wherever you are."
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#10
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:03pmFinally, someone who is willing to show the deep roots of what it means to be a pimp. Poetry. Absolute brilliance.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#11
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:04pmI still think Crash's song was better.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#12
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:05pmYeah, I've heard worse Oscar winning songs than this one. But those were by white people, so it's okay, right?
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#13
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:06pm
A lot of songs that won sucked...and this is no exception.
It's hard out here for a pimp...when you're busy exploiting women...
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#14
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:06pmEh, the song worked in Hustle & Flow. Should Howard have not been nominated as well?
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#15
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:07pmActually, a few years ago, Entertainment Weekly pointed out that Eminem had more Oscars than Martin Scorcese, so I guess Stewart just picked it up.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#16
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:07pmNow I've got TITANIC stuck in my head.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#17
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:08pmI really enjoyed the interpretive dance for the song. Although Crash's was better, with the slow-motion groping.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#18
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:09pm
Jerry Herman will turn Hustle and Flow into a musical called "Hello, Pimp!"
Dolly Parton was totally charming and should have won the Oscar as well as Felicity!
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#19
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:09pmIt IS hard out here for a pimp. Y'all just be hatin'.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#20
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:09pm
Nah...Terrance Howard was awesome. I mean it did work for the movie and I liked it in the movie, but I just don't people to take the message in this song seriously.
Anyway, this isn't the WORST song to win the Best Song category. I mean I don't even think it's the worst song to win in the past five years.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#21
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:09pm
Is that what it's called?
I'm not a dancer.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#22
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:09pmYeah, white people really need more oscars.
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#23
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:11pm
Scorsese: 0
Kubrick: 0
Hitchcock: 0
Three 6 Mafia: 1
I know they're entirely different animals, but still...
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/04
re: It's hard Out here For A Pimp#24
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:12pm
Oh come on BobbyBuddy...are you saying Hustle and Flow deserved to win Best Song just because Bird York and Dolly Parton are white? They don't have Oscars either.
BTW, Pimp was the second best song of the three nominated. A part of me is thrilled that it beat Crash's snooze-inducing performance.
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