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Zohran Mamdani’s all-women transition team<\/p>\n
These are the people on New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s all-women transition team.<\/p>\n
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani<\/a> will continue to stream rapper 50 Cent<\/a>‘s music even after he condemned his election victory.<\/p>\n The rapper-entrepreneur and Queens native, 50, has not shied away from his disdain for the Uganda-born Democrat, criticizing Mamdani’s campaign promises to raise the city’s corporate tax rate.<\/p>\n Mamdani, who on Nov. 4 defeated Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa<\/a> and Independent candidate former Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, has also vowed to impose a two percent tax on those who make more than $1 million a year, which his campaign said would raise $4 billion annually.<\/p>\n So, what has 50 Cent said about Mamdani? Here’s what we know.<\/p>\n What has 50 Cent said about Mamdani?<\/p>\n Following Mamdani’s win on election day this week, 50 Cent posted an AI-generated image of a tombstone that read<\/a>: “RIP NYC. Founded 1624. Died 2025.”<\/p>\n “I think his intentions are good, but his Tax plan is gonna run the big money out of the city and if he defunds the police they are gonna purge,” 50 Cent wrote in the caption of a Mamdani interview clip<\/a> he shared on Instagram on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n The Queens rapper also posted now-deleted Instagram posts, including one of a red Yankee hat and a Branson cognac with a caption that read, according to Billboard<\/a>, “New York is over pack it up, let\u2019s go! THE MAN\u2019S First job is Mayor MAMDANI run New York. \u2026 I need a drink!”<\/p>\n In another deleted post, 50 Cent also posted a clip of Mamdani’s victory speech, writing, “3 words. No funding coming! NYC finished.”<\/p>\n Zohran Mamdani claps back to 50 Cent criticism<\/p>\n Despite 50 Cent being a vocal critic of his, Mamdani said that doesn’t change the fact that he still streams the rapper’s 2003 track “Many Men (Wish Death)” now and then. In an interview with CNN, Mamdani quipped, “Even though we have a disagreement on tax policy, every time I get a death threat, I still listen to ‘Many Men.’ It’s true.”<\/p>\n Mamdani also seemingly threw shade at 50 Cent when he chose his hip-hop arch nemesis Ja Rule for his election night victory party music as he walked out to Ja Rule’s “New York.”<\/a><\/p>\n “What I would say to you, 50, if you are indeed watching or anyone else who’s watching this show,”\u00a0Mamdani told MSNBC host Ari Melber<\/a>\u00a0during a recent interview. “I continue to think that having the top 1 percent of New York City who are making more than a million dollars a year, having them pay 2 percent more for an economic agenda that would transform every New Yorker’s life, including their own, is something that is worthwhile.”<\/p>\n When his mayoral term begins in January, Mamdani will become the first Muslim mayor of New York City.<\/p>\n