The “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” rapper spent more time on filming sets now than in the booth, producing one successful TV show after another. Mary J. Blige and Method Man star in the latest season of “Power”. But not everyone is that lucky.
In the interview with HipHopDX, Fifty mentioned that some rappers had shown up for auditions but never got the role:
Quavo… he read for one of the characters in BMF; Casanova read for the Omar character in BMF.
Neither Migos star nor the Roc nation rapper proved that there were suitable for the role in Black Mafia Family, while Mary J. Blige, Method Man and Kash Doll will make their appearance in the upcoming Fifty’s project. There is something magnetic for music artist in screen jobs, admits 50 Cent. He thinks it is related to the changes that the music industry is going through:
You’d be surprised how many artists want to tamper into the film side of it. It’s not heavy criteria for you to be a part of the music business like it used to be. When I came in, you had to work to earn a big enough buzz for the A&R department and so-and-so-on from the music business to sign you to a major record company. Then your opportunity to be successful was there because you could work and actually make something out of it. Now, creatively, a guy has the same set we’re looking at right now, has a microphone, can record something, put their song on iTunes, start streaming, and start developing a YouTube following. Before you know it, record companies show up and wanna partner with them on something. It puts them in the music business. Anybody who can record something last night and put it on iTunes this morning is technically in the music business.
So whether they’re good or not, it’s the difference in how we separate those artists, but they’re still artists. The longer you work at it, the higher probability that you become successful at it over time because the more passion you put into it, the better it will start to become, I believe, in music. I came into the game in ’97 and didn’t have a big break until 2003 with “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”, you gotta put the work in for it to work for you.
