{"id":40731,"date":"2026-04-04T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40731"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:06:33","slug":"mamdani-recruits-cardi-b-to-promote-nyc-child-2-k-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40731","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Recruits Cardi B to Promote NYC Child 2-K Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned to rapper Cardi B on Friday as his administration rolled out a public push for a new city childcare initiative aimed at two-year-olds, including a jingle contest tied to the upcoming launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamdani, who previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2025\/06\/24\/nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdanis-hollywood-royalty-background-at-odds-with-his-socialist-views\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">performed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the rap name Young Cardamom and contributed music to his mother Mira Nair\u2019s 2016 film \u201cQueen of Katwe,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2040074514831147023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on X: <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040074514831147023\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/2040074514831147023\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post featured a video in which Cardi B asked, \u201cCan you believe that we got a 30 year old mayor?\u201d Mamdani replied, \u201cWe do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI feel like I\u2019m a kid and you\u2019re like, running you,\u201d Cardi B added, to which Mamdani responded, \u201cI\u2019m right there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asked by Mamdani what she thought about free childcare, Cardi B said: \u201cI feel like free childcare is very important. Sometimes, us women, we can\u2019t really go forward because we don\u2019t have nobody to help us take care of our kids.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamdani said: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This fall, we\u2019re starting to deliver universal 2k which is just like pre K, just like 3k but 2k for two year olds, free childcare, 2000 seats in the fall, and they\u2019re gonna be seats in the Bronx starting it up. Shout out to the BX. And enrollment actually starts in June. We\u2019re gonna have a competition to create a jingle. So New Yorkers are gonna submit their best jingle, and we wanted to know who would help judge that competition?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOh, I will judge it for sure,\u201d Cardi B replied. \u201cThe mayor is going to help you and, and I\u2019m gonna judge, and he\u2019s gonna give cause he\u2019s the one with the funds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cardi B\u2019s latest appearance with Mamdani follows several recent political efforts that ended unsuccessfully. In February, Cardi B <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/02\/26\/watch-wet-ass-psy-rapper-cardi-b-endorses-jasmine-crockett-in-texas-senate-primary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">endorsed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Democrat Senate primary, but Crockett went on to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/03\/state-rep-james-talarico-topples-rep-jasmine-crockett-in-texas-democrat-senate-primary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to state Rep. James Talarico. Cardi B also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/11\/02\/cardi-b-endorses-kamala-after-vowing-not-to-endorse-no-fking-presidents-no-more-because-biden-really-fked-up-america\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">endorsed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Kamala Harris in the 2024 election after previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/08\/12\/cardi-b-committed-to-doing-anything-to-get-joe-biden-elected\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">backing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in earlier presidential campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rapper has also repeatedly drawn attention for threats and vulgar behavior. During a February concert in Palm Desert, Cardi B said she was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/02\/12\/cardi-b-tells-concert-crowd-shes-ready-to-beat-and-mace-ice-agents-they-aint-taking-my-fans-bitch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prepared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to mace and \u201cjump\u201d ICE agents if they came to her show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, Cardi B posted and later deleted a video <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/11\/06\/kamala-harris-surrogate-cardi-b-melts-down-over-trump-victory-this-is-why-some-of-yall-states-be-getting-hurricanes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saying<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Trump-voting states were why \u201csome of y\u2019all states be getting hurricanes.\u201d The following day, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/11\/07\/cardi-b-threatens-trump-voters-leave-me-the-fck-alone-before-i-start-lighting-yall-ass-up\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">warned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Trump supporters to \u201cleave me the f*ck alone\u201d before she would \u201cstart lighting y\u2019all ass up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cardi B, whose hit song WAP was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/12\/24\/npr-lists-cardi-bs-wet-ass-puy-as-best-song-of-2020\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by National Public Radio as one of the best songs of 2020, later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/03\/wap-rapper-cardi-b-set-to-guest-star-in-nickelodeon-childrens-series-baby-shark\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appeared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in children\u2019s programming in 2022 when she joined her husband Offset and daughter Kulture on the Baby Shark\u2019s Big Show! episode \u201cThe Seaweed Sway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023, she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/31\/rapper-cardi-b-a-suspect-in-battery-case-after-throwing-microphone-at-concertgoer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threw<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a microphone into a crowd at a concert in Las Vegas after a concertgoer threw liquid at her, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/31\/rapper-cardi-b-a-suspect-in-battery-case-after-throwing-microphone-at-concertgoer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leading<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to a battery investigation. Last year, Cardi B <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2025\/08\/28\/cardi-b-testifies-she-didnt-touch-security-guard-who-alleges-the-rapper-cut-her-face\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">testified<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a California civil case that she did not scratch or spit on a security guard during a 2018 argument outside a doctor\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/video-mamdani-recruits-wet-ass-psy-rapper-cardi-b-to-promote-36000-per-child-2-k-program\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani turned to rapper Cardi B on Friday as his administration rolled out a public push for a new city childcare&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}