{"id":185022,"date":"2026-04-04T00:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:59:45","slug":"cardi-b-helps-launch-mayor-mamdanis-2-k-jingle-contest-with-one-big-rule-no-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185022\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B helps launch Mayor Mamdani\u2019s 2-K jingle contest, with one big rule: no AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s push to launch free child care for two-year-olds is getting a celebrity boost from Cardi B \u2014 and a very 2026 caveat from City Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/mamdani100days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and the Bronx-born rapper announced on Friday that applications for the city\u2019s new 2-K program will open June 2 and run through June 26. But before that happens, the administration wants New Yorkers to help get the word out with an official jingle.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/cardi-b-mamdanis-2-k-jingle-contest-no-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCardi B helps launch Mayor Mamdani\u2019s 2-K jingle contest, with one big rule: no AI &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New York City\u2019s push to launch free child care for two-year-olds is getting a celebrity boost from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,846,44590,42931,36610,9,24,12,63,613,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-185022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-cardi-b","10":"tag-mamdani-first-100-days","11":"tag-mamdani100days","12":"tag-mayor-mamdani","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-pm-newsletter","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}