{"id":2377358,"date":"2026-04-17T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2377358"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:21:32","slug":"new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-earns-small-music-royalties-from-rap-career-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-earns-small-music-royalties-from-rap-career-world\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani earns small music royalties from rap career – World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues to earn small amounts from his former career as a multilingual rapper, according to recent tax filings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Democrat, who previously performed under the names Young Cardamom and Mr Cardamom, earned $1,643 in music royalties last year, slightly higher than $1,267 in 2024, the filings show.<\/p>\n

Mamdani joked on Thursday that New Yorkers should \u201cgo to Spotify\u201d if they want to support his music, adding, \u201cA lot of people say they\u2019re listening. They\u2019re not listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

He began rapping while still in high school and released socially conscious tracks in his 20s on topics including colonialism and Indian flatbread.<\/p>\n

He has described himself as a \u201cC-list rapper\u201d inspired by indie hip-hop group Das Racist.<\/p>\n

According to the filings shared with reporters, Mamdani\u2019s main income in 2025 came from his $131,296 salary as a state Assembly member.<\/p>\n

His wife earned $10,010 from graphic design work, bringing their total joint income to about $145,000.<\/p>\n

As mayor, Mamdani is expected to receive a salary of $258,750 this year.<\/p>\n

The filings also note that he is not the first New York mayor to receive entertainment-related royalties.<\/p>\n

Former mayor Michael Bloomberg reported earning between $2,000 and $10,000 in residuals from television and film appearances, including Law & Order<\/em>, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa<\/em>, and The Adjustment Bureau<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source english.aaj.tv \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues to earn small amounts from his former career as a multilingual rapper, according to recent tax filings. The 34-year-old Democrat, who previously performed under the names Young Cardamom and Mr Cardamom, earned $1,643 in music royalties last year, slightly higher than $1,267 in 2024, the filings show. Mamdani joked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[456929,353776,462748,462747,349856,369632],"class_list":["post-2377358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-celebrity-politician","tag-hip-hop-news","tag-new-york-mayor","tag-tax-filing","tag-us-politics","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/New-York-Mayor-Zohran-Mamdani-earns-small-music-royalties-from.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377360,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377358\/revisions\/2377360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}