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Eric Adams’s relationship with hip-hop highlights the genre’s generational divide: New York\u2019s younger, less-established rappers have a connection to City Hall that’s strained at best<\/a>. Adams has blamed drill music in particular as the reason behind the deaths of two New York rappers, and urged platforms to remove drill music videos. Younger rappers would likely never want to be seen as affiliated with a mayor who once worked for the NYPD (who have been the primary antagonists of hip-hop as a genre for most of its existence). They maintain the genre’s historical wariness of authority<\/a>, and particularly of law enforcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But rappers of Adams’s generation, like Jay-Z or Diddy, see themselves more as moguls than artists. Those who have made it may have once hated cops just as much as their younger counterparts, but many have sanded their musician edges and rebranded as barons of liquor, NFTs<\/a>, and podcasts. They now see “the system” less like a power that must be fought and more like the last walled garden that they must infiltrate<\/a> and enmesh themselves<\/a> within. That attitude might be relatable to Adams, who began his career in the NYPD seeing himself as an activist infiltrator<\/a>, only to entrench himself within the establishment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, when Jay-Z accepted an award from Adams in September 2023 at the Brooklyn Public Library, the handshake between the two men was a culmination of their parallel transformations from agitators to insiders. That may have satisfied Adams\u2014who frequently uses “Empire State of Mind” as walkout music\u2014but what exactly does Jay-Z get from all this? When Hell Gate reached out to the Mayor’s Office, they told us “the award was to acknowledge the philanthropic and cultural commitments from both [Jay-Z] and his mother Gloria Carter.” It’s true that Jay-Z had agreed to donate<\/a> over $1 million to the library, right after his company Roc Nation turned BPL<\/a> into a shrine to his life and career<\/a> for the better part of the summer\u2014strangely, without his knowledge, according to his employees at Roc Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n