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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Wants to Restore NYC’s Rap Capital Status: ‘We Can’t Be Content With … Simply Being the Birthplace’
Hip-hop was founded in the Bronx in 1973, and 53 years later, New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to restore the Big Apple to rap capital glory and remain the genre’s centrifugal force.
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Hip-hop was founded in the Bronx in 1973, and 53 years later, New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to restore the Big Apple to rap capital glory and remain the genre’s centrifugal force. In a new short documentary that Billboard exclusively premieres on Wednesday (Sept. 30), Mamdani sits down with Nas to discuss the state of hip-hop in New York City, its origins and the future.
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