![]() ![]() What did you think of BMF Episode 7 and Eminem’s guest-starring turn? Are you hoping 50 Cent will direct more TV installments? Drop your thoughts in the comments. “The Black community has its own gangsters, and BMF tells the story of two of them and what that looked like and where it all began.” “Movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas romanticize crime and gangsters all the time,” Huggins surmises. He told me about the man my character is based on and gave me all kinds of details that I was able to throw in a pot, mix up, and add to my performance.”įor Huggins, BMF, which tells the story of Detroit kingpins the Flenory brothers, is an opportunity to tell a gangster story from a Black perspective set in a very Black city. His dad would call in sometimes and talk to me about the history and context of his life and family. Eminem was impressed and signed 50 with 50/50 share with Dr. 50 was at the lowest point of his life and career: got dropped from his label, and was shot nine times because he namedrops numbers of dealers from his hood on the song Gettho Qu'ran. Just hanging with Lil Meech, who 50 Cent recruited for the show, was enlightening. Eminem and 50 Cent's friendship started when Eminem, who was at the peak of his career prior to releasing Marshall Mathers LP, listened to 50 Cent's Guess Who's Back mixtape. “I never felt like I was in harm’s way or didn’t understand where the character was going. “50 is a generous director who wanted to make sure everybody felt good about what they were doing,” Kofi-Abrefa reveals. (Lamar is a character amalgamation loosely based on a real Detroit gangster named Layton Simon.) In one action-packed scene from Episode 7, the British actor’s character is shot and nearly killed by drug-dealing competitors. His lightning-quick interaction with Eminem, in contrast, allowed him to give dap to the 8 Mile star’s White Boy Rick, and he consoled Monique after a wounded Lamar violently attacked her.Įric Kofi-Abrefa, who costars as Lamar, says having 50 Cent as a director heightened his already edifying experience on BMF. In his scene with Snoop, he attended the funeral of his sister’s boyfriend Darius, whom Lamar killed. We’re making history here.”Īlthough Snoop and Eminem don’t interact on screen, Lil Meech appeared in scenes with all of them. And he used his connections to pull in his boy Eminem. The fact that we had 50 Cent directing? Come on. “Tell me when five hip-hop stars have been on one episodic drama? You can’t, because it’s never been done. He was a star in the underground mix-tape circuit for several years, but the rest of the world did not hear about him until 2002, when his first single, 'Wanksta,' appeared on the soundtrack of the film 8 Mile. “That’s the power of hip-hop,” showrunner Randy Huggins excitedly tells TVLine. The rapper known as 50 Cent is living proof that hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as it is a type of music. ![]()
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