Less than two months into his term as mayor of NYC, Eric Adams has been no stranger to controversy, whether he's taking his first paycheck in cryptocurrency or eating fish despite claiming to be a vegan. In another move that's likely to prove unpopular, he spoke out against drill music at a press conference on Friday (2/11), calling on social media platforms to remove material related to the "alarming" rap subgenre and saying he wanted to hold a meeting with Brooklyn rappers.
"I had no idea what drill rapping was," Adams said, "but I called my son, and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming. 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 are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence, we are allowing it to stay on the site, because look at the victims. We're bringing them in, we're going to show exactly what is being displayed, and we are alarmed by it. We are alarmed by the use of social media to really over-proliferate this violence in our communities."