50 Cent talks about the upcoming 8 Mile film series with Eminem.
Earlier this year, 50 Cent revealed that he’s working on a tv series over Eminem’s 8 Mile, the rap-based film that was released back in 2002. “I’m gonna bring his 8 Mile to television,” he said. “We’re in motion. “It’s gonna be big. I ain’t got no duds. I’m battin’ a hundred, I’m battin’ a hundred. I think it should be there for his legacy, because if you don’t see… it’s important to me that they understand it, you know what I mean?”
Now the rapper sat down with Men’s Health magazine for their hip-hop 50 issue, where he shares some updates on the project. “I’m developing the 8 Mile film into a series,” 50 said. “So this sh-t is expected to be just as big as the feature film, just huge. It’ll be huge. The interest in it is because the time period of 8 Mile was capturing per the bat, so as we move it into modern times you’ll see things about how we function now, how technology changed the way people enter the music business.”
“This is why you don’t see groups in the music business. You see so many individual artists because there’s no artist development. They used to take time, find Justin Timberlake over here, this guy from over here, bring this guy then we got NSYNC. Then we got Backstreet [Boys], then we got all of these cool boy bands because you put all of that talent into one show.”
Fif continued and talked about how times have changed for artists now because of internet. “When you leave them out there and they reach the audience before they reach the record company? Because if you got a computer and you got a decent microphone in front of it,” he said. “You can buy the beat from YouTube, record your record…soon as you do that, you’re in the music business. It’s just how much interest are you generating.”
The film turned 20 last year, and Eminem released the deluxe edition of the movie’s soundtrack. The original version of the soundtrack had 16 tracks, with music from Eminem, 50 Cent, Obie Trice, D12, Jay-Z, Xzibit, Nas, Rakim, Gang Starr and more. Now the new version comes with 32 tracks, which feature instrumentals of all the original songs on the soundtrack and some demos.
