David Brooks - GANGSTA!

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI

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/

WHOA is this the right David Brooks, why is this in ILM, etc.

All I know is that David Brooks was a pseudonym used by Genesis P-Orridge in the TG days

i... do not comprehend this thread entitled "David Brooks - GANGSTA!" that is not about mavado. what is happening here?

LOL

Thankfully that album isn't called David Brooks: A Better Tomorrow. Imagine how confusing that would get for NYTimes editorial readers!

i... do not comprehend this thread entitled "David Brooks - GANGSTA!" that is not about mavado. what is happening here?

― r|t|c, Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:50 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^pretty much my thought process

the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavado_(singer)

lolz, vybz has been at the wiki edit i see

"the first album was gangsta 4 life: the symphony of david brooks though!"

Hah I forgot about the subtitle.

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

His bathroom?

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

srsly can't post enough photos of Brooks lookin pedantic

http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/DavidBrooks.jpg

has obviously never watched an ep of honey boo boo before either

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/opinion/brooks-weed-been-there-done-that.html

Turns out studies and findings all agree with him, imagine that.

Paul Krugman is off today.

"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser." No doubt.

writing process revealed

"I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser"

so he still smokes it then

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.