50 Cent‘s Starz drama, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, is loosely based on the rapper’s life, but there’s one particular scene in the series’ first episode that Fif said actually happened when he was a kid.
During an interview with Page Six on Monday (Aug. 23), 50 Cent, the executive producer of the show, revealed that the scene when Kanan Stark (played by Mekai Curtis)—the character centered around 50 and his childhood—was jumped in a park in the Southside section of Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. and his mother put toys in a sock for Fif to use as a weapon against the kids that beat the rapper up was actually true.
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