India, Oct. 4 -- A new video shows hip-hop icon Nas and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discussing hip-hop's origins, the current state of the genre in New York City and its future.
Mamdani and Nas spoke at a park nearby where the rap deity was raised in the Queensbridge Projects.
Hip-hop was founded in the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City, and Zohran wants to restore the Big Apple to rap capital glory and remain the genre's centrifugal force. "We can't be content with New York City simply being the birthplace of hip-hop," the Mayor told Billboard. "We want it to still be its home, and that means ensuring that the artists who create here are actually able to live here."
"If we allow New York to become such an expensive...