― David Brooks, aka the Notorious Brookzee (TRG), Saturday, 12 November 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
total wizard
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:59 (eighteen years ago) link
It's hard to bother with that guy.
I couldn't get too far without calling him monkey.
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 November 2005 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link
and they use the same hand gestures as American rappers...
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Saturday, 12 November 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Saturday, 12 November 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
J’ai des choses à dire, je m’appelle disizJ’suis un peu bronzé, ny name is basanéC’est toujours ca la France …
EloquenceAnnée 2.0.0.3, le constat est le même examen de l’hexagoneFaut que sa rime et que ça sonne quand je poseMilitant dans l’âme expose mon combat explose les porcsLes beaufs explorent ce monde de oufJ’ai des choses à dire ch’uis anti-sarkozy, anti-Star academyMais qu’est qu’en pense disiz ?
Disiz la pesteDe nos jours très tôt t’as la trouilleLes traîtres veulent les blacks et les crouillesLe ton monte d'un cran dans les crews,L'écran, la timp, l'état, le macroy’aura plein de numéro d’écrou en France c’est illégal d’être pauvreattention cache toi dans le trou sinon on te rappatrie dans le bateauLa patrie joue les batârds on t’fera payer les plein potsSi t’est tard dans le hall, black de peau et que t’entend les pimponsSarko, Sarko, Sarko parle fragile comme du placoplâtreMets mes frérots black au placard Chirac fait des braco d’appart’Mais le peuple accepte écarte les cuisses lui donne sa carte d’électeurC’est ça la France fait gaffe au carotte met ton capteur
RefrainEloquence & Disiz la pesteJ’ai des choses à dire sombre est l’avenir mais mes refrès m'assistentToi qui tize ton pastis vote FN si tu veux, vient me test si te peuxMais laisse moi faire ma musique pour noir, blanc et arabeJ’ai des choses à dire je m’appelle disiz je suis un peu bronzéMy name is basané c’est toujours ça la FranceUn tiers d'hypocrite à moiti collaboMy name is le négro
Disiz la pesteNous on peut pas faire la grève inutile pas la peineC’est la merde y’a pas de taff donc pas de grèveTrop peu d’inspiré comme Gyu DegresneOn fuck l’école et on s’engraineC’est la merde on vit a la One Again
Tolérance zero parait que c’est crédoNoir, blanc et arabes fumant le bedo sous le même préauY’a trop d’escroc Chirac premier délinquantFrance convoqué devant le juge n’y va pas arrogance de sa partMon rap un rempart face à Le Pen et ses conneriesEloquence et Disiz, instruction civique sur M.I.C
RefrainDisiz la peste & EloquenceJ’ai des choses à dire je m’appelle disiz je suis un peu bronzéMy name is basané c’est toujours ça la FranceUn tiers d'hypocrite à moiti collaboMy name is le négroJ’ai des choses à dire sombre est l’avenir mais mes refrès m'assistentToi qui tize ton pastis vote FN si tu veux, vient me test si te peuxMais laisse moi faire ma musique pour noir, blanc et arabe
C’est ça la France, complexe, c’est ça la FranceC’est ça la France, complexe, c’est ça la FranceC’est ça la France, complexe, c’est ça la France
Disiz la pesteEt c'est qui gène les fachos que la jeunesse soit fachéeMartyrs comme des Falachas la choseC’est chaud faudrait peut être se cacherC’est ça la France Disiz, EloquenceSur un son d’accordéon des couplets blessants
Disiz la pesteAh l’accordéon, quelle belle musique, quel bel instrumentEloquence : ah je te le ferai pas dire ça me rappelle la FranceDisiz : oh mais quelle talent c’est ça la France quel panache dis leur EloquenceEloquence : oh la la magnifique !
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 November 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Just catching up with this thread...
Tracer Hand: you're right. French rap is almost always a few years behind, production-wise. The key for me are the lyrics, and the rappers' flow. There are some great, great records out there, if you can past the passé beats.
Current listening includes the latest Saian (pretty good). And I'm quite into the new Disiz La Peste.
As for where to start. There's a new IAM comp which has a lot of great stuff on it. The classic IAM release is L'Ecole du Micro d'Argent (1997), considered by many the best French rap album of all-time. Another classic is Suprême NTM's Paris Sous les Bombes (1995) -- worth picking up.
Some other favorites. There's a little group called Scred Connexion, five Algerian kids from Barbès in Paris. I'm crazy about their first record, from five or so years ago. These boys can flow.
TTC are a kind of left-of-center, Beasties-meets-De La Soul type group. Their flow is sick, and the production, for once, is great, too. Check out their debut, Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque (Big Dada). One of my favorite hip-hop albums, period, of the last half-decade.
Arsenik are definitely my favorite French rappers. They're amazing MCs; even if you have no French, you can't help but feel them. (You might know them from a track they did with RZA several years back.) I love Quelques Gouttes Sufissent, a total classic.
Can’t seem to get my Arsenik files uploaded to my server, but I'm throwing up a couple of TTC MP3s (for just a couple of days). Enjoy.
- TTC, Nonscience- TTC, De Pauvres Riches
― Jody, Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
This is not the first time he's done this, either. A few years back he did an article called "The Organization Kid" about how today's Ivy Leaguers are uptight robots who have to schedule hanging with their friends in their daytimers. Turns out for his research at Princeton, he only spoke to kids that were reccomended by professor, so of course he only spoke to the biggest tools on campus. Oh how we laughed as the rest of us went back to our binge drinking and lipstick parties like the Youth Gone Wild that we are (thanks NYTimes).
― yuengling participle (rotten03), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Two other acts to add:
La Rumeur (especially L'ombre sur la mesure)
Rohff (especially La Vie avant la mort)
Not sure I agree that the French are usually behind the US - TTC certainly are not, have always been in the vanguard IMHO. But then I'm English.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI
― jimMMmy, Sunday, 11 December 2005 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 11 December 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Taibbi dissects what has got to be one of the worst things Brooks has written in recent memory.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/27/populism-just-like-racism/
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
WHOA is this the right David Brooks, why is this in ILM, etc.
― KORGÜLL THE EXCHEQUER (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
All I know is that David Brooks was a pseudonym used by Genesis P-Orridge in the TG days
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i... do not comprehend this thread entitled "David Brooks - GANGSTA!" that is not about mavado. what is happening here?
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Thankfully that album isn't called David Brooks: A Better Tomorrow. Imagine how confusing that would get for NYTimes editorial readers!
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:50 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^pretty much my thought process
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavado_(singer)
lolz, vybz has been at the wiki edit i see
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!"
Hah I forgot about the subtitle.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brooks-the-psych-approach.html?hp
Finally, pop culture has been far out front of policy makers in showing how social dysfunction can ruin lives. You can turn on an episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” about a train wreck working-class family. You can turn on “Alaska State Troopers” and see trailer parks filled with drugged-up basket cases. You can listen to rappers like Tyler, The Creator whose songs are angry howls from fatherless men.
would like to see a lab report from the research he's been doing
― j., Friday, 28 September 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
His bathroom?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
He's got his newspaper copy of the New York Times there. He's written about going to Europe to see Springsteen shows but I doubt he has even listened to Tyler on his laptop
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
srsly can't post enough photos of Brooks lookin pedantic
http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/DavidBrooks.jpg
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
has obviously never watched an ep of honey boo boo before either
― flopson, Friday, 28 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/brooks-weed-been-there-done-that.html
― just sayin, Friday, 3 January 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link
Turns out studies and findings all agree with him, imagine that.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 January 2014 09:59 (ten years ago) link
Paul Krugman is off today.
― barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 3 January 2014 10:00 (ten years ago) link
"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser." No doubt.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 3 January 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
writing process revealed
― bnw, Friday, 3 January 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser"
so he still smokes it then
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
I hope footage from that presentation leaks
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
"learning about drugs without facing criminal charges should remain an activity solely reserved for the rich"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 January 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
" Others fell deeply in love and got thrills from the enlargements of the heart."
lol
― andrew m., Friday, 3 January 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
My friend died from enlarged heart u asshole!
― andrew m., Friday, 3 January 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Brooks otm
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I want to do an AI image rendition of "David Brooks being introduced to Wu-Tang Clan like everybody else at the time."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
It’s telling that he writes & edits with his “hands,” not his brain.
― "Mick Wall at Kerrang!" (morrisp), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
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
― jmm, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
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
― jmm, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xp that woman should be paid a good salary to just keep doing that wherever he goes.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
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
― jaymc, Friday, 25 November 2022 03:49 (one year ago) link
None of the rappers he mentioned were from Compton,
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
lol, thank you jaymc. I had a feeling...
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
How did you find that old HB tweet?
― jaymc, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
I googled "david brooks nas concert" and that tweet was the second result
― jmm, Friday, 25 November 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link