The rapper Curtis Jackson is now also successful as a producer of series. Still, he hasn’t turned his back on music. A conversation about his new series “Power Book II” and how much 50 cents is still in the entrepreneur.
Curtis Jackson is better known as the rapper 50 Cent. In the meantime, the 45-year-old is also a Grammy winner and successful producer of television series.
For six seasons, “Power,” a mixture of gangster thriller and soap opera, was one of the most watched shows on American cable television. A few months after the end of this, the offshoot “Power BookII: Ghost” will follow, which will be shown from September 6th on the Starzplay streaming service. And in October “For Life” starts on Sky, a judicial drama in which Jackson also plays as a supporting actor.
“Die Presse am Sonntag” had the opportunity to ask him a few questions in a video call. However, he did not want to talk about political topics such as Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump and Co.
When the “Power” series that you produced started running six years ago, it did not immediately cause a major stir. When did you start to suspect that you had a real success at hand?
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