Royce Da 5’9″ talks about 50 Cent’s “BMF” show and Eminem’s role.
Eminem recently made a cameo on 50 Cent’s STARZ show “BMF” as the White Boy Rick. However, the Detroit Rapper’s part was just of few seconds, which left many fans disappointed, as they were expecting something big. Now the one half of Bad Meets Evil, Royce da 5’9″ also shares his opinion on the Eminem role, as well as the hit “Black Mafia Family” show.
“I love it [BMF],” he says about the show. “I didn’t go into it expecting anything in particular cause I never really knew anything about Meech anyway or I knew vague stories that I would hear in passing. That’s not my generation so all of that s**t is interesting to me. The best part about the series to me is little Meech. He’s doing a magnificent job.”
He continues, “That Em episode. That’s funny. Man, that s**t went by so fast. I wonder why he didn’t play a bigger part. They could have figured out a way to work with White Boy Rick into there. I didn’t know Eminem is going to be in that one. Maybe Meech and White Boy Rick encounter was just brief. I don’t know. Maybe he didn’t have a big part… I thought he was gonna bump him into prison or some s**t but it’s dope though.”
White Boy Rick — real name Rick Wershe — made history when he became the youngest informant in FBI history at the age of 14. Three years later, he was arrested for possession of eight kilos of cocaine with no intervention from the FBI. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and eventually became the youngest non-violent offender to serve more than 30 years behind bars. A $100 million lawsuit was ultimately filed on allegations of child abuse. He was released in July 2020 after completing his sentence with credits for good behaviour.
For the short cameo, Eminem was made to look a little younger, and his beard was also removed through some editing. “When Eminem found out I was directing, he committed to do it, and working together was natural,” 50 Cent told ew. “It was an honor to have him on the show and it made this episode extra special. The technology that they used to de-age him was the same thing they used in The Irishman. Em actually has a beard, so they first took the hair out of his face using the technology and then they de-aged him all the way down.”
Check out Royce’s interview with TheHipHop Lab below (Eminem bit at 12:20 min mark).
