{"id":201078,"date":"2026-04-17T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201078\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:32:21","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-earned-over-1600-in-rap-royalties-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201078\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Earned Over $1,600 in Rap Royalties Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> shared his 2025 joint tax return for transparency\u2019s sake on Thursday, April 16th. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/16\/nyregion\/mamdani-tax-return.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a>, the one-time rapper is still making some passive income from his music career, reporting $1,643 in royalties earned last year.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that Mamdani\u2019s mayoral run caused a renewed interest in the music he recorded under the names Young Cardamom and Mr. Cardamom. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/zohran-mamdani-streams-blew-up-2025-rap-royalties-modest-1236225165\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Billboard<\/a> reports that 74% of US streams\u00a0for Sidda Mukyallo, his joint 2016 EP with HAB (Abdul Bar Hussein), were from last year, when it raked in 58,000 on-demand streams. His most popular songs, the HAB collab \u201c#1 Spice\u201d and 2019\u2019s \u201cNani,\u201d garnered a respective 219,000 and 243,000 on-demand streams in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mamdani still had recent success even before his mayoral candidacy. He reported another $1,267 in music royalties in 2024, when he was a member of the New York State Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani shared his 2025 joint tax return for transparency\u2019s sake on Thursday, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-201078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201078","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=201078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}