50 Cent Posts Anti-Zohran Mamdani Memes After New York Mayoral Election Victory: ‘RIP NYC’
50 Cent isn’t the biggest fan of New York City’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani.
After Mamdani’s historic win as the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, the Queens rapper and filmmaker took to Instagram to voice his displeasure in a series of posts, some of which have since been deleted.
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In one deleted post, he posted a picture of a red Yankee fitted cap and a bottle of his Branson cognac with the caption: “New York is over pack it up, let’s go! THE MAN’S First job is Mayor MAMDANI run New York. … I need a drink!” He then posted what looks like an AI-generated image of a tombstone that reads, “RIP NYC, Founded 1624, Died 2025.”
50 also posted a clip from Mamdani’s victory speech, in which the newly elected mayor took aim at President Trump. “3 words,” he wrote in the caption of the deleted post. “No funding coming! NYC finished.”
And finally, in yet another deleted post, 50 posted a screenshot of a tweet from journalist and host Ari Melber that said Mamdani played Ja Rule‘s “New York” as he was walking to the podium to give his speech. “Of course he would walk out to that fool,” 50 wrote. “His plan doesn’t effect him. He ain’t getting no money.”
Speaking of Ari Melber, New York City’s new mayor-elect appeared on his CNN show The Beat With Ari Melber and was asked about the back-and-forth the two Queens natives have had over his tax policy. “What I would say to you, 50, if you are indeed watching or anyone else who’s watching this show,” he said. “I continue to think that having the top 1 percent of New York City who are making more than a million dollars a year, having them pay 2 percent more for an economic agenda that would transform every New Yorker’s life, including their own, is something that is worthwhile.”
Mamdani added that he plays one of 50’s best songs whenever he gets a death threat. “Even though we have a disagreement on tax policy,” he began, “Every time I get a death threat, I still listen to ‘Many Men.’ It’s true.”
50 posted the clip (still up), and while he said he feels like Mamdani’s heart is in the right place, he still thinks taxing the rich will make corporations flee the city and that defunding the NYPD is going to lead to a purge, before hinting at the G-Unit Studios he leased in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2024. “I think his intentions are good,” he wrote. “But his Tax plan is gonna run the big money out of the city and if he defunds the police they are gonna purge. @50centaction All Roads lead to SHREVEPORT !”
Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda but moved to New York City when he was 7 years old and grew up in Queens. Before running for mayor, he was an assemblyman for New York’s 36th State Assembly district, which represented the Queens neighborhood of Astoria and Long Island City.
