NYC’s Socialist Mayor Begged 50 Cent for a Sit Down and Got Exactly What He Deserved

50 Cent posted a tombstone for New York City on Instagram the night Zohran Mamdani won the mayor's race.

Mamdani went on a national podcast and publicly invited 50 Cent to dinner to debate his tax plan.

50 Cent got the invitation and just sent NYC's socialist mayor a final answer.

50 Cent Posted a Tombstone for NYC After Mamdani Won in November

Zohran Mamdani is the 34-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist who now runs New York City.

He won the November 2025 mayoral race on a platform built entirely on soaking the rich.

His plan hikes the city's top income tax rate from 3.9% to 5.9% on every New Yorker earning over a million dollars a year.

Stack that on top of New York State's 10.9% top rate and you get nearly 17% – the highest combined burden on top earners anywhere in the country.

50 Cent – Queens native, self-made hip-hop mogul, and a man who has never been shy about where he stands on punishing success – was not impressed.

The night Mamdani won, 50 posted an image of a tombstone declaring New York City dead on his Instagram.

He told his followers the city was finished and it was time to leave.

That was not his first warning.

Back on the campaign trail, Mamdani appeared on The Breakfast Club and name-dropped 50 Cent while pitching his millionaire tax to a national audience.

He called the increase a flat 2% on those earning over a million dollars and brushed off objections as a rounding error.

50 Cent answered on Instagram, telling Mamdani he would give him $258,750 and "a first-class one-way ticket away from NY" – and declared he was alerting Trump directly.

He wanted nothing to do with the plan or the man promoting it.

The Rapper Who Once Backed Trump Over Taxes Just Confirmed Nothing Has Changed

None of that stopped Mamdani from trying again.

On July 1, he appeared on Complex's new podcast with host Jillian Superstar.

When asked about his dream dinner party guests, he named 50 Cent – and proposed using the occasion for a conversation about tax policy.

He had already quoted 50 Cent lyrics at a college graduation – publicly telegraphing admiration for a man who had made his own position crystal clear.

"It's a one-sided beef," Mamdani admitted on camera.

For once, he got something exactly right.

50 Cent answered on Instagram the following day.

He told the mayor to focus on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's upcoming Madison Square Garden wedding instead of name-dropping him in interviews.

Then he delivered his answer: "Stay away from the taxes."

There was no dinner and no sit-down.

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Just a public dismissal from a Queens rapper who built one of the biggest brands in hip-hop history from nothing and has no interest in letting a socialist city hall tell him what he owes.

Mamdani Keeps Invoking 50 Cent and Keeps Getting the Same Answer

This has been going on since 2020.

When Biden proposed a combined 62% tax rate for New York City's highest earners, 50 Cent told millions of followers on Instagram to vote for Trump on the spot.

Democrats mobilized immediately.

Chelsea Handler – his ex-girlfriend – went on The Tonight Show and publicly lectured him about how Black men are not allowed to prioritize their own tax rate.

The pressure worked and 50 walked back the endorsement.

But the underlying conviction did not change.

50 Cent watched Mamdani win an election by promising to build the highest-tax city government in the country, declared the city dead, and has now twice told the mayor to stop invoking his name.

What Mamdani keeps missing is that 50 Cent is not an ally waiting to be persuaded – he is a man who grew up in the same borough as the mayor and turned that story into a self-made empire.

50 Cent is not going to endorse a plan to hand more of it over to the government that failed the neighborhood he came from.

New York City is where the left beta-tests its ideas – and whatever survives there is coming for your city next.

You cannot quote Get Rich or Die Tryin' at a graduation and then expect the man who lived that title to sign off on your tax hike.

50 Cent answered the dinner invitation.

The answer was no.

Sources:

• Alexander Hall, "Zohran Mamdani admits he wants to end his 'one-sided beef' about taxes with rapper 50 Cent," Fox News Digital, July 2, 2026.
• Lindsay Kornick, "Rapper 50 Cent fires back at NYC Dem socialist candidate after being name-dropped in tax plan," Fox News Digital, June 2025.
• "50 Cent endorses Trump over Biden tax plan disgust," Washington Times, October 20, 2020.
• 50 Cent, Instagram, July 2, 2026.