Today, we're holding it down for 50 Cent. The more obvious choices (such as André 3000, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, 2Pac) will be ignored in favor of artists who tend to get overlooked these days, for one reason or another. Previously, our writers have made cases for Pusha T, Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Big Boi, DMX, Ghostface Killah, Busta Rhymes, and Dr. In this series, we'll be making the case for specific rappers to be included in "greatest of all-time" discussions. Is it time to start including Curtis Jackson in the GOAT conversation? I don’t know how else to describe it, but it’s really BMF music.With an essential hip-hop classic under his belt, 50 Cent's impact on the game is undeniable. The time period is when hip-hop shifted from the east coast sound or the west coast sound to a more southern-based song, and dance culture became more relevant at that point. A lot of times street culture is very close to hip-hop culture. “It’s one of the best stories to tell,” the Many Men rapper says. He went out there."ĥ0 Cent, who also helmed the TV show Power, says he’s been wanting to bring the story of BMF to the screen for a while, having bought the rights to the project in 2015. I moved him from Atlanta to California so he could take acting classes consistently. "In this particular situation, I had a long time, so I sent Meech to acting classes. In The Sopranos, James Gandolfini’s son played a younger version of him," he says. “I'm looking at him, thinking 'he should play his dad.' We only see that happen when O'Shea plays Ice Cube in NWA in Straight Outta Compton. 'Jeen-Yuhs': what we know about the Kanye West documentary 21 years in the making "It’s about a real family and what their experiences were like growing into the position that they’re known for.” I don’t know if this is because they can run faster than you or jump higher than you, that you just want to be like the older brother so you’re doing the same things, but that’s a family story. “Really it’s the older brother and then the decision of the younger to follow. “The show is about two brothers that make a decision,” he says. Black Mafia Family, he points out, tries to bring that to the forefront. While the group’s drug operations and associations within the hip-hop world made ample fodder for an arresting TV show, 50 Cent says he was more captivated by the fraternal aspect at the heart of the group. The Flenory brothers – Demetrius "Big Meech" and Terry "Southwest T" – were arrested and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment each. However, BMF’s heyday in hip-hop was brief, as the group was indicted by the Drug Enforcement Agency in 2005. They definitely exceeded what my experience was like on the street.” “But not to the magnitude of what were doing. Looking back, 50 Cent says it would have been easy for him to get wrapped up in the world of BMF, especially “because I went through a kind of similar experience”, he says, alluding to his early life selling drugs in New York City during the 1980s. “It was at the same point when I’m moving up and they are at the financial point where they can do anything and everything they want,” he says. So I didn’t interact with them in the early stages it was the other talent that was around that would go out, party, have experiences with them and then come back and have these stories about the Black Mafia Family.”ĥ0 cent serves as executive producer of 'Black Mafia Family' TV series Anywhere that I wasn't scheduled to be, I wasn’t there. “I kind of learnt of Black Mafia Family from other talent around,” 50 Cent tells The National. The rapper says he made more than $38 million from his first tour and was no longer involved in “things that easily fit my prior MO ”. 50 Cent says he was in a “different headspace” as BMF rose in popularity in the music industry, and did not attend their get-togethers.
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