We have been obsessed with Magid Magid, the newly elected mayor of Sheffield, a town in the United Kingdom. At 28, he is the youngest person to ever hold his position, and he’s shaking up Britain’s political landscape. Here are a few reasons why we’re here for Magid.

1. He’s squatting in his official portrait, and it doesn’t get more gangsta than that.

The swag squat seen around the world. Source: Twitter

Most political portraits consist of the person standing in a stiff position or sitting with a bored look plastered across their faces. That ain’t Magid’s style, so he hit us with the classic swag squat with his mayoral chain drippin’ off his neck. "I guess it's not your average photo for a lord mayor, but I thought it represented me well enough," Magid told BuzzFeed. "Firstly, it was a massive health and safety hazard as it was a big drop. But I was first standing on it as I thought it would make an interesting shot."

2. He is proud to be a bigot's worst nightmare, including Trump.

The sensationalist, problematic content published by British tabloid Daily Mail would rattle some leaders, but Magid ain't never scared. 

“I hope by the fact I am a black, Muslim immigrant – everything the Daily Mail probably hates – people will look and say 'In Sheffield, we’re proud of doing things differently, and celebrating our differences,'” he declared.

Like Trump, Magid is a reality star turned politician, but that is where the similarities end. If Trump came to Sheffield, it wouldn’t be a pleasant visit.

"God, no! I definitely would be supporting those protesting,” he told Vice when asked how he would respond to a visit. “Honestly, he's a piece of s**t. He has legitimized all these racists and xenophobes."

3. He ain’t on that fake s**t.


Magid appeared on a British talk show with a conservative pundit who was praising him for his “fantastic” story despite his stingy views on immigration. The mayor, who arrived in the UK as a Somalian refugee, wasn’t having it and called out the post-Brexit government’s treatment of refugees. “It's this Government's policies that make my story and stories like mine very very unlikely," Magid remarked. After the pundit advocated immigration control so they can admit “genuine refugees,” Magid called the country out on its questionable priorities. “This country denies 3000 Syrian refugees on the basis that we can’t afford to bring them in yet we can find lots of money to go into Syria for war.”

4. He understands that pre-Spotify struggle.
At 28, Magid knows what it’s like to live in a time when the world’s music wasn’t an app away. When he was a kid, he used hip-hop as an escape from his troubles. Like many of us, he had to risk computer viruses to burn CDs. That love of music became a legit side hustle.

"I would just spend hours online," he said. "Music was a very big part of my life. I used Kazaa and Limewire to illegally download music and make my own CDs. I'd sell them in school for £2. They were called Magid's Master Mix. I think I got up to volume four."

5. He is humble and pro-black woman. 
Magid is humble about his success. He readily admitted his triumphs depended heavily on circumstance rather than his bootstraps and commended African women’s work ethic. 

“There's a lot of luck involved," he said. "I'm not going to sit here and say it's all down to hard work – that's bulls**t. If only hard work was involved in reaching accomplishments, then every woman in Africa would have got something amazing out of their hard work."

6. He’s single and putting his plus ones to good use.


Despite his good looks and zaddy status, Magid is single. Instead of finding a random piece of eye candy for his events, he encourages his constituents to accompany him to events. He believes engaging young people will get them involved in their government. "We really need to value young people a lot more," he said. "I'd love it if politics became part of the curriculum, to get more people engaged at a very young age so that when they get to voting age they feel included and have the skills to sift through all the bulls**t."

7. Dude stays rocking a gold chain. 

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