pimps and other lovers (was: Who's your daddy?)

[Mullins, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: pimps and other lovers (was: Who's your daddy?)
>
> Incidentally, sense 2c in the OED is more specifically
> 'pimp', cited as U.S. slang from _Life in Sing Sing_, 1905:
> _Lover_: a man who receives support from a prostitute.
>
So is this the source of the name of the hip-hop artist Ed Lover?
Or is that his real name?