How you doin' 50?
I'm good man, what's happening in the U.K., I'm in Albania, I'm on holiday.
I know I said to my wife, I'm not going to do any interviews while I'm on holiday.
And then your name came up.
I just showed the phone to her and said, can I do this one?
You can do that one.
So I've been allowed I'm I'm going to start I've really enjoyed
from what I've seen of it so far, I mean, obviously, I think it's a great family
drama, first and foremost, has so much humanity to it.
And how important is it to you
and that we recognize that everyone has a story
and has a lot more to each person
than what what we can read on Wikipedia? I think it's so important
that the origin story of this project, if if we didn't do it, you would say
that they had success in illegal business when they finally got caught.
You go well about time,
you know, you was doing it the wrong way.
But anybody that was the working class person who struggles with things
at different points,
they would look at them and say, well, about the time they got away with it,
Lord knows how long.
But when you look at the nuances that you see in.
The origin story it provides, I understand it,
it makes you do it from a 15 year old kids perspective.
A place where they're in poverty stricken situations
where they don't really have the money for the mortgage.
In their household, and that idea is the idea that.
It pays the bills when you look at
when you come up and there's no.
Financial structure around you.
It'll start to feel like this the biggest the biggest obstacle.
In front of you is finances, and we start the.
Money starts to be a huge driving force
of everything that you're trying to achieve. Isn't that?
And so watching the guys, when you get a chance to see it
and see the even the Christianities that runs through
Charles and Michael flatteries.
Character, those things.
I think they're universal, I think the people understand that place,
they've seen a younger sibling follow their big brother in a different way so
that these are themes that you see happen throughout the series with Miach A..
I think that they'll be relatable in some way.
I understand what's driving the character.
And then, you know, I think it's irresponsible
if you tell a story and don't tell the whole story.
You know, I think
when you look at.
The word organized.
It it has levels of intelligence connected to it when it used.
About criminal activity.
So when you sit when I say organized crime, we think of white
Italian Americans and only that don't think of Russians.
You don't think the triads, you know, other ethnicity or organizations
that have formed and at any point.
And this is the first time in the Senate with African-Americans and different
a diversity spend to it.
And it's a true story. So it's cool.
And so when did you first come up with the idea of having
'Lil Meech' play big meat?
Because, I mean, he's so great in the show and it's proven to be a great idea.
But given his lack of experience, it was quite a gamble.
Thought I did. I had a cast in the lab
and the casting was so broad that because people didn't if with the character
they see in the shows that I'm working on, like I did that
because they thought they know the person that behaves that way and.
They came out to the point of about thirty thirty two hundred thirty two hundred
people came and signed up to it, but we didn't get a chance to see everybody.
The cops came and shut down the cast.
But it kind of felt like when you looked out the window, I was like a concert.
This is footage shows that many deep wells
and then Lumis came and he sat with me while watching other people come
and rehearse to read and.
It wasn't till after that that I had
two of the permanent casting directors in Hollywood send me names of people
that would fit the origin story, and they didn't look like to me.
And I think his son looks just like his head.
Like I'm like he was already on like his dad is a superhero.
We noticed this already like
this, is that without knowing the two of them, we know how
the son subtle look at the dead boys. And there's a.
I just took a shot at it, I said, you know, if if.
You do it, I say.
As I said, I'm from L.A., I moved to California.
And I had him work with multiple agricultures,
the different workshops and stuff to do I going on and allow him to be full time
focusing on accent and was able to do what
people do over a longer period of time and 18 months.
And we got ready and it came out that he performed in the show
and while was actually left to show him with of all of you.
So he's in a for any other independent film in between
the actual season to shoot season two short.
Yeah. When I spoke to him last week, he said, you've been like a mentor to him.
And I just wondered, did you think that with experience
and weight in the industry comes the responsibility to kind of help
the next generation of people kind of rise up and achieve their own goals?
Did you have a kind of mentor when you first started out?
I didn't have the mentor. I didn't know.
I do think that there's a
I do feel like a responsibility to offer some of the information
that not only that, the things that I've done with some of my mistakes.
So they don't have to make them.
You know what I mean?
And that and you it in a relationship of smoke. You saw
me with the baby.
The artist, the baby, me, him, I talk to him about some
things is going on and there's a.
Also, Lil Meech.
This is different, but but because I had.
Well, it's the finances, the finances around to go to move them
from one area to another area that allows him to just have sole focus
at the outset, and then you look you say, is that now?
I wish I could take credit for he's really good. This there's a
you can see in his performance that there's a vulnerability there.
The the the neighborhood had desensitized.
Yeah. You know that with a....
you've got this tough exterior around you because of the environment itself
that they had and actually broke through to have to toughen them up that way.
And it allowed them to go in to tap into things a lot easier than we would have
if we had already emerged into that lifestyle. He hasn't done any of those.
When they watch,
it may be authentic because he's his son, but he's all the way, good.
Like there's no there's no felonies, there's no none of that energy from his dad.
His son is just too young.
It was like six when his dad.
So one person who was obviously quite influential,
never knew when you started your career, I know was Eminem.
And of course, he features in this show.
How pleased are you to getting involved in an episode of BMF?
Very excited that I get,
you know, like that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't directing. Like Em.
Specifically, he's a guy that does not move on money.
You can't like I've been.
Hollywood has seen it like it might be an easier way to get him to get me.
Because of our relationships
to this point that I was given the project and.
I went to Detroit to show him the project and for him to look at it
and they will offer him like eight million dollars to be in it,
and he still like "I just think we should do something
like the Warriors, like something different , like, you know, like".
OK, cool. We just you know, let's make a music,
we want to rap this rap, do something else like that, because I know
you don't feel like if you doesn't want to do is going to to me,
he doesn't want to he's busy. Doesn't want to tell me no.
So he'll say to create another suggestion.
And that means, no,
I'm also clear that I get off the subject or not thinking about that.
Let's go. You want to go to the studio?
Let's go back. Let's go do something different and have fun.
And he's like - all right...
Because that's really what you want to do.
Like, is that a perfectionist and that in a whole nother level.
And we don't need.
You don't need it. You know, I'm saying sort of good when it comes out
in support of me directing.
It does look at the attention that it brings to episodes of.
You know, I mean, it just makes everyone pinpoint focus on that,
and then I was initially cast in the role that Snoop is playing.
So I just thought because we were launching Raising Kanan,
that people would be so conscious of my performance, in Kananm, that it was thrown off.
Seeing me play the minister in BMP.
And so we should get Snoop to do it so i got Snoop on the phone.
And he was like, well, I'm with it...
Just like I'm good enough to you, let's put it together and we go it
and it was cool, I made that up and it was so good,
like it's come around full circle.
It is a few other surprises in there, too, that people go look and go,
I didn't even know he was in there.
I wish I could just get Snoop on the phone.
Unfortunately, I've not got his number. No, but I was I was such a big.
And I was going to ask a final question.
I was such a big fan of Get Rich or Die trying.
I mean, the album and the movie.
But my mom, my mom tells me to go and see you at London at Wembley Arena.
So she's very excited. I'm trying to see today. Yes.
Do you have plans to return to that kind of side of your work
or are you very much kind of focused now on producing and kind of directing
aspects of your career?
The music is that I've never lost my passion for.
That's so you see, I took the time to make sure
I put in the right music on the theme. So like I put
all of them, I've done it,
you know, and there's a.
Because of the BMF's connection to music culture,
there's a full soundtrack to it.
So you'll see me perform
a few times on that and then.
Buckle down and make some mix, some music, we are really.
To present it to the general public, I will be pissed enough to know
that I could arguably be the best thing out at most.
You know, so if I make a full length album
and I release, you know, in my mind I'm thinking it is the best thing possible.
I wouldn't even do it.
I hold it back and just put our pieces.
So the full body of work, I'm 50 Cent.
I've sold Thirty five million records when I get ready. Come on. Coming
up next on your computer in
London, I'll be there with my mom again.
And best of luck with the release of the series.