Do You Think This Will Help? NYC Mayor Eric Adams Meets With Rappers Maino, B-Lovee, Fivio Foreign & More To Talk About Drill Rap After Proposed Ban
Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared war on Drill Rap and characterized the music as “alarming,” linking it to gun violence.
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During a press conference Friday, Adams said “I had no idea what drill rapping was, but I called my son and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming,” he said. “We are going to pull together the social media companies and sit down with them and tell them that you have a civic and corporate responsibility.” He added, “We pulled Trump off Twitter. Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence. We’re allowing it to stay on these sites.” He then told reporters that he wanted to have a meeting with these social media companies to completely ban “drill” rap videos that glorify and promote violence.
However, it looks like Mr. Adams took another meeting instead. In a video posted to Instagram late Tuesday, Adam is seen sitting with several New York rappers including Maino, B Lovee, Fivio Foreign, and more. According to the “Hi Hater” artist, they had a very “much-needed conversation” about the music and Adams added that “we’re going to roll out something together on the whole conversation and we’re looking forward to it.”
Soren Baker, author of “The History of Gangster Rap,” explained what Drill Rap is: “Drill is basically gangster rap driven by social media beefs and social media tactics,” Baker said. “It’s real-time reactions to music and violence. Artists have gotten killed because they say, ‘I have beef with this person and this is where I am.’ The efficiency of releasing these songs” — with their real-time taunts — “leads to the violence happening,” New York Post quotes.
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez also told Fox News, “We’ve had a number of shootings in Brooklyn recently that are directly related to drill rap … [The rappers appear] on Facebook Live and Instagram Live, and they’re taunting their rivals in the rival gangs’ territory, saying, ‘We’re here. Come get us. If we see you, we’re going to shoot you.”
While Drill music has been out for a while, rap stars insist that it’s not as bad as officials are making it out to be. Maino said that their positive meeting on Tuesday was to give Mayor Adams more insight and a better understanding on what it’s all about. Adams and Maino have not yet provided details on their plan.
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