David Brooks - GANGSTA!

I hope footage from that presentation leaks

"learning about drugs without facing criminal charges should remain an activity solely reserved for the rich"

" Others fell deeply in love and got thrills from the enlargements of the heart."

lol

My friend died from enlarged heart u asshole!

The 1990s brought astonishing hip-hop — Tupac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, the Fugees — and I got introduced to all of that like everybody else at the time. My hands were writing and editing conservative editorials for The Wall Street Journal; my ears were straight outta Compton.

Brooks otm

I want to do an AI image rendition of "David Brooks being introduced to Wu-Tang Clan like everybody else at the time."

It’s telling that he writes & edits with his “hands,” not his brain.

Then there are the times that are just awkward — like the time at a Nas concert when a seven-foot-tall woman in a black bodice came up to me and asked, “What on earth are you doing here?”

haha

Possibly a true story

According to my cousin, @nytdavidbrooks is currently at the Nas/Lauryn Hill concert. I can't begin to process this.

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 5, 2012

xp that woman should be paid a good salary to just keep doing that wherever he goes.

I asked, and it was her!

I just texted my cousin and…I think the answer is yes??? https://t.co/1qIj3Eu3oS

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 25, 2022

None of the rappers he mentioned were from Compton,

lol, thank you jaymc. I had a feeling...

How did you find that old HB tweet?

I googled "david brooks nas concert" and that tweet was the second result

Nice

What a night. Usually when I’m up this late it’s because I’m listening to NBA Youngboy.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) November 4, 2020

Also found this interview where he mentions the concert. He is so proud of having gone to that concert.

https://www.newsweek.com/david-brooks-new-york-times-columnist-narcissism-mockery-and-hip-hop-340318

"I believe that, over the centuries, smart people had incredibly valuable perceptions. But I don't live in the past. People stereotype me as a fogey. I am not. I go to hip-hop concerts."

"Pardon?"

"I listen to Kendrick Lamar. I was at a Nas concert not long ago."

Though this is the unassailably best quote imo:

"I had metaphorical moral headphones on. People didn't associate me with an intimate life. Now, when people have a trauma, they talk to me."

Meanwhile the interviewer is needling him the whole time.

"People have traumas after talking to me."

In 1991 when David Brooks was a 30 year old man writing columns about how the Black people who make the music he likes deserve poverty and suffering, his current wife was six years old

— Hilary Agro 🍄 @hilarya✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.l✧✧ (@hilaryagro) November 24, 2022

xp that woman should be paid a good salary to just keep doing that wherever he goes.

― JoeStork, Thursday, November 24, 2022 2:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol otm

This dude and his Nas concert.

https://chicagomaroon.com/17637/news/uncommon-interview-david-brooks-a-b-83/

CM: So I read somewhere that you listen to rap music. Who are you listening to now?

DB: [Laughs] It’s true. I was at a Nas concert! I can barely stomach Tyler the Creator, who gets a little raw for me. I come into contact with them through my kids, so they’re my avenue into the world.