A screenshot from rapper Andy “Chino” Yang’s video for his track, “San Francisco Our Home,” which has been denounced by some local leaders as divisive and disrespectful of Mayor London Breed.

Carlos Solórzano-Cuadra, Jeffery Lee, Yulanda Williams, Rev. Amos Brown and Ben Menor pose for a photo at Chino Yang's apology press conference at the Third Baptist Church, on Dec. 28.

As 2023 came to a close, a dark horse of a scandal trotted up to the finish line. On Dec. 13, local rapper and restaurateur Andy “Chino” Yang dropped the music video for “San Francisco Our Home,” a track that criticizes Mayor London Breed and “fakeass liberals” as “clowns” who do nothing about property crime and violent attacks against Asian Americans. Scenes of Yang and his friends swaying in front of an auto shop and his restaurant are interspersed with footage of the Tenderloin and TV news reports, including one about the 2021 killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee.

It could have just been just another blip from a relatively unknown musician, but the video’s view count on YouTube has grown from 11,000 to about 45,000 since last week, when it was condemned by former mayor Willie Brown, San Francisco NAACP president Rev. Amos Brown and other Black leaders in a series of statements to the media and an hour-and-a-half press conference. Yang apologized, then took it back and accused Rev. Brown of threatening him. Supporters are calling it attempted censorship. So the video is still up, and Breed, in a tenuous........

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