In an off-topic Q&A following a Friday press conference on pay raises for essential gig workers, a reporter asked New York City Mayor Eric Adams for his thoughts on the relationship between the city's violent crime rate and drill music.
The rap subgenre's violent lyrics and street-focused aesthetic make it an easy target for politicians, and Adams' response has prompted concern from some in the hip-hop and legal communities who feel it reflects a long tradition of criminalizing rap. "I had no idea what drill rapping was, but I called my son, and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming," Mayor Adams said. "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...
We pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing, yet we're allowing music displaying guns, violence... to stay on these sites, because look at the victims...
We are alarmed by the use of social media to really overproliferate this violence in our communities... This is contributing to the violence that we're seeing all over this country.
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