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SIX at 6: The Follow-Up, Staying With It, A Striking Lack of Talent, A Certain Kind of Personality, A Proud Failure, and The Second Effort - Billy Oppenheimer

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In the 1970s, the comedian Chris Rock grew up in a Brooklyn neighborhood surrounded by gangs, violence, and crime. He was asked how he avoided falling in with a bad crowd—”how did you avoid the trapping of gangs and gang activity?” “I don’t think it’s about ‘avoiding,’” Rock said. “It’s about, where’s your follow-up?…I wasn’t a gang follow-up guy. A gang is like anything else—you have to follow up.” To become a formal or informal member of anything—a local gang, a high school clique, a neighborhood book club, an online forum, or a crew that gets together now and again to play pick-up basketball, drink coffee, ride bikes, or recap the series after this or that show’s finale—Rock continued, “You have to follow up. You have to be at the meetings, you have to read the pamphlets, you have to watch all the episodes, you have to get the clothes—whatever the follow-up may be.” When there were opportunities to get mixed up with a bad crowd, “My follow-up wasn’t there. It’s like, ‘We’re going to

Where’s Your Follow-Up? In the 1970s, the comedian Chris Rock grew up in a Brooklyn neighborhood surrounded by gangs, violence, and crime. He was asked how he avoided falling in with a bad crowd—”how did you avoid the trapping of gangs and gang activity?” “I don’t think it’s about ‘avoiding,’” Rock said . “It’s about, where’s your follow-up?…I wasn’t a gang follow-up guy. A gang is like anything else—you have to follow up.” To become a formal or informal member of anything—a local gang, a high school clique, a neighborhood book club, an online forum, or a crew that gets together now and again

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