Fivio Foreign and More Meet With NYC Mayor Over Drill Music

Rappers Fivio Foreign, Maino, B-Lovee and others met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams to discuss the violent content in drill music after the mayor called to ban some of the music videos on social media.

On Tuesday night (Feb. 15), Maino shared a video on his Instagram page of himself, Fivio, B-Lovee and other people and revealed that he talked with Mayor Adams about drill music and the violence associated with the sub-genre.

“It’s been a lot of talk about drill rap, drill music in New York City, connecting violence with the culture,” he said. “And I just wanted to create a conversation with the mayor…so he could get a real perspective and a real understanding of what drill rap is and so that we can have some real dialogue and really start to make things happen.”

Mayor Adams added that he and Maino will “roll out something together” around their discussion but didn’t elaborate further on what that would be.

Maino’s conversation with Mayor Adams about drill music comes as New York City had to come to grips with the recent murders of rappers that have been connected to the drill music scene. Bronx drill rapper C-Hii Wvttz and Brooklyn drill artist Tdott Woo were both shot and killed in February. In January, Nas Blixky was shot in the head and leg but survived his shooting incident. And Kay Flock is in jail after being charged for murder stemming from a fatal shooting outside of a Harlem barbershop in December.

According to the New York Post, Adams admitted that he didn’t know what drill rap was until his son Jordan Coleman, who works at Jay-Z’s Roc-Nation, showed him some videos. This prompted Adams to announce that he will speak with social media executives at YouTube, Instagram and Facebook to urge them to ban drill rap videos on their platforms.

“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.”

“We are alarmed by the use of social media to really over-proliferate this violence in our communities,” he continued. “This is contributing to the violence that we are seeing all over the country. It is one of the rivers we have to dam.”

In response, drill music star Fivio Foreign hopped on his Twitter account and wrote a message to Mayor Adams urging him to “fight with us not against us.”

“I would luv to come 2gether & work on some type of common ground but it’s deff not the music that’s cause’n or contribute’n to the violence,” he tweeted. “I want to sit down & talk with @ericadamsfornyc so we can work towards change’n this city for the better.. Fight with us not against us.”

Hopefully, Fivio and Maino’s discussion with Mayor Adams will result in something positive for both the drill artists and their fans. We must stop the violence and increase the peace in the city.