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  "textContent": "Last year, the people of New York elected a new mayor in democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, an ex-rapper who once sent Stereogum his music. Mamdani is not the only rapper to become a governmental executive in recent months. On Sunday, the 35-year-old MC Balendra Shah won a landslide election to become the new prime minister of Nepal.\n\nThe post Nepal’s New Prime Minister Is A Rapper appeared first on Stereogum.",
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