Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a rapper himself, recently sat down with legendary rapper Nas to talk about New York City's place as the home of hip-hop.

Hip-hop was founded in the Bronx in 1973, and 53 years later, New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to restore the Big Apple to rap capital glory and remain the genre's centrifugal force. In a ...

The mayor and the rap legend talked the past, present, and future of New York rap in a short documentary.

Praveen Nair, the mother of filmmaker Mira Nair, grandmother of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and the inspiration behind his viral rap song Nani, has died at the age of 94. A noted social worker ...

Salaam Baalak Trust co-founder spent 60 years transforming lives of vulnerable children Praveen Nair, who spent six decades in social work and co-founded one of India's best-known children's charities ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings show. But the 34-year-old Democrat’s meteoric rise as a ...