Zohran Mamdani walks out to Ja Rule's 'New York' after winning NYC mayoral election
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Zohran Mamdani walks out to Ja Rule's 'New York' after winning NYC mayoral election

Nic Huber

Continuing his feud with 50 Cent, newly-minted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani walked out to Ja Rule's song "New York" to give his victory speech Tuesday night in Brooklyn.

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“I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity," Mamdani said as he began his victory speech quoting Eugene Debs, one of the most influential socialists in American history.

50 Cent, whose disdain for Ja is the stuff of legends at this point, was obviously not impressed with the possible sneak diss and took to Instagram to sound off in a series of posts, some of which have been deleted after second thoughts.

In one deleted post, as reported by Billboard, the Queens rapper posted a screenshot of a tweet from MSNBC host Ari Melber that said Mamdani played Ja's track as he walked to give his victory speech. “Of course he would walk out to that fool,” 50 wrote. “His plan doesn’t effect him. He ain’t getting no money.”

Earlier this week, the now-mayor-elect responded to 50's repeated criticism during an appearance on Melber's MSNBC show.

“He’s a critic,” Mamdani said. “I didn’t even know what my salary would be until I opened up Instagram and saw this thing that was like, ’50 Cent offers Mamdani X-amount of money.’ I was like, ‘That’s a very specific amount of money. Oh my god!'” He continued: "And even though we have a disagreement, every time I get a death threat, I still listen to ‘Many Men.'”

Mamdani won a decisive victory Tuesday, earning more than one million votes in a contested race against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC radio host Curtis Silwa.

50's beef with Mamdani began after a campaign appearance on The Breakfast Club earlier this year, where Mamdani discussed his plans to raise corporate taxes and impose a two percent tax on the top one percent of New Yorkers.

Since then, 50 has threatened to leave his native city for Shreveport, Louisiana, the home of G-Unit Studios. But time will tell if he actually flees due to Mamdani's socialist agenda.

Ja, on the other hand, co-opted the move with affirming emojis as seen in his Instagram Story below:

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Released in 2004 on Ja's sixth album R.U.L.E., "New York" is a diss track of its own, aimed at 50 and G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks.

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