Here’s the Iconic NYC Musician Who Stumped Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani During His ‘Track Star Show’ Music Quiz

New York voters volition spell to the polls connected Tuesday (Nov. 4) to prime a caller mayor, and successful astatine slightest 1 late-breaking survey, starring contender Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is connected apical again erstwhile it comes to his cognition of iconic New York musicians. The antiauthoritarian nominee who is facing disconnected against erstwhile Gov. Andrew Cuomo, popped successful to the Track Star podcast this week to trial his euphony IQ with big Jack Coyne, and the results were an across-the-board sweep.

Well, but for 1 legendary Long Island-based songwriter whose euphony Mamdani was amazingly unfamiliar with.

Coyne started with a layup, with Mamdani smiling arsenic helium instantly identified Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ 2009 classical “Empire State of Mind.” Coyne suggested that his euphony trial was “more important” than moving for mayor, with Mamdani joking that contempt his double-digit lead astatine property time, helium feared helium was “about to suffer the race” if helium blew the quiz.

He aced the adjacent 1 arsenic well, singing on to the chorus of the Strokes’ 2001 classical “Someday,” and casually dropping that his pal, set vocalist Julian Casablancas, is simply a “great guy,” who, contempt moving successful a “pretty dirty” assemblage is simply a “straightforward, sincere, nice” person.

And you cognize way 3 was nary worry, since it was his ain opus with HAB, “#1 Spice,” released nether his nom de rap “Young Cardamom,” successful 2016. If having a campaigner who has dropped bars didn’t already marque you consciousness old, the 34-year-old aspiring metropolis person said helium recorded his archetypal verses for an AP Lit people successful precocious schoolhouse earlier a person from his autochthonal Uganda deed him up to grounds the way that helium aboriginal heard a antithetic person utilizing to hype his ain campaign.

Within seconds, Mamdani blew a buss to bespeak that helium knew Coyne was rocking Yonkers MC Jadakiss’ 2001 azygous “We Gonna Make It,” with the campaigner revealing that his imagination walk-on euphony is Ja Rule and Jada’s 2004 anthem “New York.”

He ran the committee connected the adjacent three, correctly bagging the Beastie Boys’ enactment starter anthem “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”, grooving to the “incredible” Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” and bobbing his caput to Queens’ ain Mobb Deep and their 1995 single, “Survival of the Fittest.”

“M-O-B-B-D-E-E-P,” Mamdani chanted.

And past things went disconnected the rails.

As the legendary soft intro to Long Island fable Billy Joel’s 1976 homage to his home, “New York State of Mind,” played implicit his headphones Mamdani had to get real. “You know, arsenic a person it’s important to beryllium honest,” helium said arsenic Coyne tried to assistance retired by noting that the instrumentalist plays soft and is, arsenic we said, from Long Island.

Nothing.

“That’s not connected your go-to playlist?,” Coyne asked. “Got to beryllium honest, no,” Mamdani said, hoping that his chap New Yorker’s won’t ding him for not knowing the way from the creator who Read Entire Article