The rapper 50 Cent would love to star in a rom-com with: “She’s tougher”
50 Cent‘s acting career stretches back to 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, an autobiographical film about his life. These days, he is finding success behind several television shows on the Starz platform, but there’s one genre that Curtis Jackson is eager to make a mark in. The hip-hop mogul has had his eye on making his rom-com debut, and there’s a surprising star that he wants as his leading lady.
Talking on the Jalen Rose: Renaissance Man Podcast in September 2021, he revealed his interest in hitting the silver screen and said who exactly he wants to make audiences laugh out loud with may surprise you. “You know who would probably be fun to work with? Nicki,” he said. “Nicki Minaj would be fun to be in a romantic comedy with.”
The 49-year-old added that their similar upbringing in South Jamaica, Queens, New York, would help him relate to her. Jackson added that the environment they both experienced shaped them and particularly shaped Minaj’s guarded personality.
“I kinda understand her a little bit more than the other people,” he explained. “She’s tougher. When she’s being an a**hole because she’s telling you, ‘You’re not going to take advantage of me.’
“The environment, it made her a little more … Like she’s going, ‘Don’t play with me’ before you play with her, because of how the temperament of the environment and how people are where we come from. I get it because I know where it’s coming from, but I know they’re looking at her like, ‘What is wrong with her?’ She’s already got her guard up.”
The Power executive producer certainly has the sway and weight to force a conversation about the two in a romantic comedy. Business has been good for Jackson, and the show ran for six seasons and launched multiple spinoffs such as Ghost, Raising Kanan, and Force. His company is producing several upcoming shows as well.
Jackson has even cast fellow hip-hop artists Snoop Dogg and Eminem in roles in his series Black Mafia Family (BMF), as well as the likes of 2 Chainz, Ne-Yo, and Saweetie. Jackson went on to defend the rapper, saying that she was being attacked “publicly” due to recent controversies at the time.
“It’s because of…choices [like] who you decide to be with,” 50 Cent said, referring to criticism she has faced surrounding her husband Kenneth Petty, who recently was placed on house arrest after violating the terms of his three-year probation. “C’mon, bro. … That’s her personal life, and she’s decided her personal business is personal. Why do you care?” Jackson added.
It’s not the first time that he has come to Minaj’s side and defended her. In a 2020 episode of Young Money Radio, he called New York rapper an “alpha female” of hip-hop.
“I love me some Nicki,” Jackson concluded. “She be harder and she’s an alpha female! That motherfucker tough…You got to watch her or she’ll go—she’ll do something that’s pulling a move to assert herself.”