A$AP Rocky not only challenged NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani to a rap battle but even declared that he would beat him at it. Rocky shared that he\u2019s down to both battle and debate Mamdani. The topic was first teased to the 37-year-old rapper during the Met Gala this year.<\/p>\n
A$AP Rocky says he is \u2018coming\u2019 for Zohran Mamdani\u2019s spot<\/p>\n
A$AP Rocky declared he wants to have a rap battle against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In a new conversation with Vibe writer Jeff Ihaza, Rocky was reminded of the Met Gala incident. It involved a fan suggesting a rap battle between him and Mamdani. Ihaza said, \u201cThere is something about a rap battle with Mamdani?\u201d Rocky asked, surprised, \u201cMamdani wanna rap battle me? Where? No way he called me out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ihaza reminded the rapper, \u201cSomeone at the Met Gala asked you about doing a rap battle with Mamdani.\u201d The \u201cPraise the Lord\u201d rapper replied, \u201cMamdani ain\u2019t f***ing with me. Listen, I\u2019m already coming for his spot because I\u2019m about to be mayor in like four years or whatever, you know what I\u2019m saying. So listen, if he wanna battle, we could do that. If he want to have a little debate, we could do that too, man.\u201d Rocky added, \u201cI am here to do something humanitarian work for the city that I am from. All bulls**t aside, you know what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m really going to run for mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans are excited about the possibility of Rocky and Mamdani battling against each other in a rap contest. One fan commented, \u201cNew York politics and Harlem hip-hop colliding on a debate stage is elite. VIBE is delivering a classic cover story with this one.\u201d A second fan wrote, \u201cAlright, I\u2019m watching.\u201d A third fan quipped, \u201cbillionaire bf vs socialist mayor.\u201d A fourth penned, \u201cSo next album name reveal? Mayor Meyers,\u201d followed by a fire emoji.<\/p>\n
For those unversed, an anonymous fan floated the idea of a rap battle between Rocky and Mamdani to the rapper at the Met Gala.<\/a> The rapper chuckled and replied, \u201cThat was fire. I like that. Who you got your money on?\u201d The anonymous individual replied, \u201cYou,\u201d Rocky laughed and high-fived the woman.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Anwaya Mane for Mandatory.<\/a><\/p>\n The post A$AP Rocky Challenges NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to a Rap Battle<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky not only challenged NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani to a rap battle but even declared that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,7733,64,98833,98832,12493,82],"class_list":["post-253505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-mayor","tag-nyc-news","tag-rap-battle","tag-rocky","tag-the-met-gala","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253505","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=253505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}