Seattle terminates contract with former pimp turned 'Street Czar'

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Seattle terminates contract with former pimp turned 'Street Czar'

Andre Taylor, the former pimp who was appointed Seattle's "Street Czar" by Mayor Jenny Durkan, has since lost his six figure contract after failing to make an impact as crime continues to spike in the city.

Sources at Seattle City Hall told The Post Millennial that his contract was not renewed following the spike in shootings and gang violence within the city. Taylor was paid over $100k for six months of work. Last July, he signed a $150k contract with the city.
Last Friday, Taylor released a music video called "Like Me," and rapped about his pimp career which glorifies the lifestyle he claimed he had left behind

Taylor has since been terminated as the Street Czar and was paid $100k for six months of “work.”

"You wanna be an American pimp, like me! You wanna keep yo little b*** in check, like me! Pimps really don't wanna be like Mike, they wanna be like me," Taylor rapped from a yacht alongside his wife who was one of his prostitutes.

Taylor was featured in the 1999 documentary American Pimp which examined "pimping subculture," and is known to have bragged about impregnating the young girls he pimped.

In 2000, Taylor was convicted of seven prostitution-related counts, three involving a 16-year-old girl on the charge of child trafficking, two involving adult women and two counts of money-laundering. His bail was set at $2.2 million at his preliminary hearing in 1998. Taylor insisted that he was not aware of her age.

Seattle officials and the local media referred to Taylor as a "civic activist" in large part because his brother, Che Taylor, was killed by police in 2016 during an attempted arrest for drug possession.

The shooting was ruled lawful when a gun was found at the scene. Che Taylor had been previously convicted of rape and robbery and had multiple outstanding warrants.

After the shooting, Andre Taylor formed the group "Not This Time" which seeks to "engage with local community members, the families of those who have lost their loved ones to police shootings, and those who work inside the system, to demand more police accountability and safer communities."