Rap on Brooks

David Brooks, Playa Hater - The New York Times columnist grapples with "gangsta rap." By Jody Rosen

The crime here isn't just laziness. It's tackiness and gall. Did Brooks bother to notice that the rappers whose songs he cites in his piece about "the future of Islam" aren't Muslim at all, but two black Frenchmen and one black Belgian? There's a word for this kind of stuff. "Mr. R," I suspect, would call it teub�.

Slate takes the Times to task for stereotyping Muslims and French rappers.