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50 Cent Says Rapping and Producing TV Require This Same Skill · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty cent has made a pretty seamless transition from one
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  Speaker 2: of the hottest em seas in the game to one
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  Speaker 2: of the hottest television producers, responsible for shows like They Hit, Franchise,
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  Speaker 2: Power for Life, and bet MF, with many more on
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  Speaker 2: the way. Wrapping and TV producing might seem like two
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  Speaker 2: entirely different worlds in the entertainment industry, but for fifty
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  Speaker 2: they both come down to the same skill storytelling, he
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  Speaker 2: tells Vulture. At one point, my core audience was in college.
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  Speaker 2: They're going out partying as often as possible, and you're
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  Speaker 2: hot with music. At that point the music theme to
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  Speaker 2: their life. Now, my core audience has grown. They're at home,
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  Speaker 2: not going out into night clubs. They've got wine tellers
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  Speaker 2: because they don't want to party with the kids. We're
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  Speaker 2: in a different place in our life. I'm able to
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  Speaker 2: reach my core now through television. It's the same storytelling,
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  Speaker 2: but they tune into me on the tube instead of
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  Speaker 2: with music. Fifties currently developing a TV version of eight
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  Speaker 2: Mile alongside M and M, which is likely to air
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  Speaker 2: on
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  Speaker 1: Fox that's direct from Hollywood.