Cringeworthy moment socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdanis rap video played during live interview: Didnt think it would be on CNN

That was not music to his ears.Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s 2019 rap video reached a national audience Thursday night — during an incredibly awkward moment on a live CNN interview that left the New York City mayoral hopeful visibly uncomfortable.Mamdani appeared on “Erin Burnett OutFront” and the eponymous host used the C-grade hip-hop video as an introduction to the 33-year-old lefty pol who performed under the name “Mr.Cardamom.”The Queens assemblyman grimaced and flinched as the video began to play — attempting to laugh off the reminder of his blush-inducing attempt at a music career.“Once you do it, it’s out there,” Burnett said to Mamdani.“It’s there.

Didn’t think it was going to be on CNN,” Mamdani said through a wincing smile.Burnett then pressed Mamdani, offering him a chance to respond to critics who suggest he is “not ready now” to be mayor of the Big Apple.“I would say a campaign offers a glimpse into what an administration would look like, and we built a campaign the likes of which the city has not seen in a long time,” Mamdani replied, eliding over Mr.

Cardamom’s performance entirely.Mamdani’s vanilla rhetoric Thursday was a far cry from the spicy bars he would drop under his sobriquet — including some songs which gave outright endorsement of groups who supported the terror group Hamas.In the 2017 track “Holy Land Five,” the presumptive Democratic mayoral candidate praised five men — known as the “Holy Land Five” — from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development who were convicted in 2008 of donating more than $12 million to Hamas.“My love to the Holy Land Five.You better look ‘em up,” Mamdani as Mr.

Cardamom sang in a song called “Salam.”Those five men — Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Ghassan Elashi, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdulrahman Odeh — were convicted by the US Justice Department on 108 counts including supporting terrorism, tax fraud and money laundering...