Chino and the Man

San Francisco restauranteur Chino Yang made a rap video decrying rampant burglaries, violence against Asians, and the failure of City leadership. (His Kung Food restaurant has been broken into multiple times.) It would probably only have reached a limited audience until the Chronicle reported that an "extremely powerful" person threatened him. [bold added]

Chino Yang, the rapper and restaurateur whose business was repeatedly burglarized, also stressed in a social media post on Tuesday that he was apologizing to [Mayor London] Breed only after he received threats from an unnamed “extremely powerful” person who he said “has the connection to presidents, senators, all the top elites.”

The Chronicle was unable to reach Yang for comment on Wednesday, but former Mayor Willie Brown and the Rev. Amos Brown, two close allies of Breed, were expected to hold a news conference with other community leaders Thursday touting Yang’s apology and urging him to remove his video.

I can see why the video could damage the Mayor's re-election campaign. Not only does Chino Yang blame London Breed for the City's problems he points out the apparent double-standard between the way blacks and Asians are treated:

You know I'm 100% down with the Black Lives Matter
But what about our grandmother and what about our grandfather
They're getting attacked, they're getting robbed
They're getting killed,
And the DA just drop another murder charge
I'm sick and tired of dealing with the phonyass liberals
They acted like they care but never treated us as their equal
My people have been here for over 200 years
So save your fake sympathy and your crocodile tears

In the video there are images of black-on-Asian violence and blacks committing property crimes, and it's implied (but not stated explicitly) that the criminals are getting off because of their race. Note: the mayor, the district attorney, and the police chief are black.

Asians comprise a third of the City's population, and the video could well peel of some of their support from the leadership. Yes, I can see why a powerful friend of the Mayor would want to censor it.