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Taipei’s Mayor Will Destroy You With His New Rap Video

Mayor Ko Wen-je just dropped a trap song with one simple message: “Do things right.”

In the world of trap music—a style of hip hop made famous by the likes of Gucci Mane and Fetty Wap—Ko Wen-je is an unlikely newcomer. And yet, here we are, in 2018, and the 59-year-old trauma surgeon-turned-mayor of Taipei, Taiwan, is dropping his first (and possibly not his last) music video, “Do Things Right.”