Pimps Up, Ho's DownUntangles the intricately knotted issues around hip hop culture and its treatment of young black women Pimps Up, Hos Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the