Mayor Eric Adams on Friday urged social media firms to ban “drill” rap videos that glorify and promote violence.
The mayor’s plea came a day after he gave an emotional speech about the life and death of 18-year-old drill rapper Jayquan McKenley, aka Chii Wvttz, who was gunned down in Bedford-Stuyvesant last Sunday.
Adams said he was not familiar with drill rapping — which tends to have dark, violent themes, often including killing with semiautomatic weapons — until he spoke to his son, Jordan Coleman, who works at Jay-Z’s Roc-Nation.
“I had no idea what drill rapping was. My son sent me videos. It was alarming,” he
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