New York City Mayor Eric Adams is raising the alarm over violent content in drill rap, a controversial and popular subgenre of hip-hop, and wants social media companies to restrict artists from sharing their music on those platforms.
Adams admitted that he “had no idea what drill rapping was” until his son Jordan Coleman, who works at Jay-Z’s Roc-Nation, sent him some videos
“We are going to pull together the social media companies and sit down with them and state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility,” Adams told reporters last week. “You know, I mean, we pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing, yet we are allowing music — displaying of guns, violence — we’re allowing it to stay on these sites.”
It is unclear which videos Adams has viewed and his office did not provide more details when asked if he has any meetings set up with leaders of social media companies to discuss the topic.
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Eric Adams meets with drill rap artists after dissing the genre
Mayor Eric Adams revealed Wednesday he will be “rolling out something” about the notorious drill music days after he called on social media companies to remove the violence-glorifying genre from their platforms.
During an unrelated press conference, Adams also said he had a “great conversation” Tuesday with a group of drill artists in which he clarified his comments to them.
“I don’t know if you saw the picture, but for the first time in my life, I looked cool, hanging out with all of them – and it was very interesting,” Adams said in City Hall.
“Because, I don’t know who said it, but they said, ‘We heard you said you were going to ban drill rapping.’ I did not say that. I was very clear in what I stated.
“And they came in with a lot of energy — of, you know, here’s a 62-year-old guy that [doesn’t] understand young people and you want to destroy. And I let them talk and then I told them what I said: That violent people who are using drill rapping to post who they killed and then to antagonize the people who they are going to kill is what the problem is,” the mayor added. “And they heard me, and we’re going to be rolling out something in the next few days to deal with this issue. It was a great conversation and I was happy to have them there.”
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