50 Cent receives blessing for gangster biopic
Rap entrepreneur 50 Cent has received the blessing of incarcerated drug lord Big Meech to adapt his life story for the screen.
The In Da Club hitmaker recently announced plans for a new show based on the gangsters of the infamous crime organization the Black Mafia Family (BMF), who launched their own drug-funded music business called BMF Entertainment, before its downfall in 2005.
The series has already been greenlighted by network bosses at Starz, the same channel which airs his Power drama show, and now 50 Cent has revealed BMF co-founder Demetrius Flenory, aka Big Meech, has personally approved the project.
50 has taken to Instagram to show off a letter Flenory sent him from prison, in which he praises his work on Power and grants the hip-hop star and his co-producer Randall Emmett permission to use his story for the show.
In the message, the gang leader, who is currently serving 30 years behind bars, writes in part: "I feel that the two of you are the perfect team to tell 'my story'."
Big Meech established BMF with his brother Terry, known as Southwest T, in their native Detroit, Michigan in the late 1980s and over a period of 10 years, they grew their street trade into a reported $250 million empire that at one time reportedly controlled the distribution of cocaine into at least three major cities.
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