If you don't remember 50 Cent's name on the original lineup of artists for the iconic 2022 Super Bowl halftime show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, that's because, according to 50, “they” didn't want him there.
In a new feature at The Hollywood Reporter, 50 goes into detail about the backstage drama at the Super Bowl LVI performance that featured him as a surprise guest, but which he said almost didn't happen. “They wanted to leave me out of it. They didn't want me there,” the 50-year-old said, echoing a since-deleted Instagram post from September 2022 in which he said:[Eminem] he's the man, he wouldn't do the show without me,” after the show won three Emmy Awards. rapper NORE as well reported the initial snub on his podcast at the time.
Asked who they were, 50 said Jay-Z's Roc Nation didn't want him on stage that night. “Eminem wouldn't have made it without me,” 50 (born Curtis Jackson) reiterated of Marshall Mathers, who first signed Jackson and helped him release his impressive debut album in 2003. Get rich or Die Trying'. “That's how I ended up on the show because it wasn't coming if I didn't. When that happens, you're like, “Damn, so you just lost Eminem because you didn't bring 50?” Dime. Okay. Then bring 50.” But if it was up to them, they wouldn't have me there. I'm the surprise. I don't deal with the account at all. But they couldn't get Em to do it without me.”
The long history of mutual admiration between the two MCs will be extended into the future thanks to an upcoming project from '50s Film and TV label G-Unit, which said it is developing a series based on Em's 2002 8 miles feature film. “50 is like a brother to me,” Eminem said THR. “50 has proven time and time again that there is nothing he can't do and no one is stopping him from doing it.”
The story also notes that 50 is expanding his already extensive television holdings with an animated series for Amazon Freevee called Lady Danger Agent by BOOTI with Nicki Minaj. “It's a blueprint for what resilience looks like,” Minaj said of 50, whose extensive TV portfolio includes six seasons of the Starz hit Power — and spin-offs Ghost, Bringing up Kanan and Power — as well as another Starz series, BMF and upcoming shows including the boxing drama Fightland and Queen Zingaabout an African warrior queen.
“Whenever he's been challenged in the real world or in the entertainment industry, he's risen to the occasion and emerged victorious. Is smart. He's a businessman,” Minaj added. “I can see past the 'funny 50' — I see a very deep thinker. Is honest. He has mastered the chess of reinvention through many eras of music, entertainment and social media. Yet somehow it always seems to remain authentic. This is a very difficult feat.”
50 also said he is launching his own FAST channel (ad-free streaming TV), building his own film studio in Shreveport, LA and working on a novel about a black female Texas Ranger.
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