what makes this Mamdani speech so godd*mn good?

what makes this Mamdani speech so godd*mn good? & what can you learn from it? of the five people what I'm talking about, Mamdani, speech at the championship parade. Now I suggest you just listen to it. Because even if you don't know anything about basketball, the NBA, the New York Knicks, you could listen to this speech and feel like you yourself were the person that led the Knicks to the championship. In my opinion, there are three simple but very specific things that Mamdani does that every great speaker and speech throughout history did to make them iconic. First, Mamdani speaks with rhythm. This is nothing new. We're talking about a guy that has built his entire campaign around social media. He knows that everything he says will likely be turned into an edit, all of his sentences have that same repetitive cadence that sounds like it should be placed over a beat. He's not trying to be nonchalant, actually. Quite the opposite, actually. He speaks at the top of his lungs, with that patriotic urgency, complete with that hand over his heart and everything. This high conviction, rhythm style of speaking is the same thing that Obama did, it's what JFK did, and it's what Mamdani's been doing ever since he was a rapper. Second, he constructs a narrative. In this speech, he's basically telling the story of what happened in the NBA finals without saying anything about basketball. That's what any trying to construct a narrative does. He creates a common enemy. In this case, it's the pundits, the journalists, anyone that's not a New Yorker. This is a tactic that Trump is actually really good at, taking different contextual details and events to construe a common enemy that people can rally against. The third thing he does is probably the most obvious one, the thing that makes every famous speech famous: turns an identity into a soundbite. Mamdani bases the entire speech around the idea that New Yorkers are the .4% That .4% was just a number, and he turned it into a headline that describes New Yorkers. Taking a seemingly trivial number or phrase, turning it into a symbol for a community spirit is something that is common amongst all iconic speech. MLK's I have a dream, Neil Armstrong's one big leap, Donald Trump's build the wall. These are all examples of speakers taking an identity that their audience resonates with and representing it with something tangible. A dream, a step, a wall, a statistic. Mamdani was almost certainly cooking from the moment after Game 4, and he delivered.