Perhaps last week’s on-air advocacy of the legalisation of marijuana acted as a kind of pre-emptive warm-up for the rest of his political ambitions – as rapper 2-Chainz has said that he would like to run for mayor of his home town of College Park, in the US state of Georgia.
2 Chainz, real name Tauheed Epps, has until 4 September to register his candidacy and would be challenging College Park’s mayor since 1996, Jack Longino.
Word of 2 Chainz’s political endeavours first arose in an interview with XXLMag following his televised debate with presenter Nancy Grace on HLN. “I’m a musician, not a politician,” he said. “I’m supposed to be running for mayor in College Park. I got everybody wishing.
He added: “I’m really gonna do this little mayor thing in College Park. I’m just trying to make sure I have the right qualifications.”
2 Chainz follows in the footsteps of Wyclef Jean – who ran for the Haitian presidency in 2011 but was disqualified due to residency requirements – and the Grammy award-winning Macklemore, who in 2013 announced that he would be running for Seattle mayor in 2025. “Politics is the new hip-hop,” Macklemore told one interviewer.
