Pimps Up, Ho's Down

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| name = Pimps Up, Ho's Down

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| director = Fredrik Gertten

| producer = Brent Owens

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| starring = Don "Magic" Juan, Ice-T, Mike Epps

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| editing = Eric Marciano

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| released = {{Film date|1998}}

| runtime = 62 minutes
directors cut: 92 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Pimps Up, Ho's Down is a 1998 television documentary about pimping in the United States as part of the HBO documentary anthology series America Undercover. The film features interviews with American pimps and explores the modern pimping lifestyle.{{cite web|last=Bernadin|first=Marc|title=VIDEO REVIEW Pimps Up, Ho's Down: The Director's Cut|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272147,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213073704/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,272147,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 13, 2007|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=5 October 2013}}{{cite news|title=Peep show: Pimps, hoes, and player's balls (review)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNQiAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Peep+show:+Pimps,+hoes,+and+player's+balls%22|access-date=5 October 2013|newspaper=Vibe|date=February 1999|page=126}} The film has received some controversy over some pimps using the documentary as an instructional video for their prostitutes,{{cite news|last=Bennett|first=Brian|title=Are Pimp Films Too Instructive?|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1172574,00.html|access-date=5 October 2013|newspaper=TIME|date=Mar 13, 2006}} and HBO paying the pimps for rights to film their businesses and the Players Ball.{{cite web|last=Busch|first=Anita|title=Competing documentaries about pimps made movie news this week|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,283317,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007060021/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,283317,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 2013|publisher=EW|access-date=5 October 2013}}