50 Cent Reveals He Was Only Making $17,000 Per Episode When He First Started ‘Power’

50 Cent Says He Was Only Making $17K Per Episode When He First Started ‘Power’

It appears 50 Cent didn’t make a lot of money when he first ventured into TV. The Queens native recalled to Vulture that he “took a major pay cut” when he started.

“There’s no one that could come and tell me to take $17,000 to act and executive produce and make music,” he said.

“I gave them the theme song for Power. I gave them the things that connected, hopefully, in a different way for it. You see what I’m saying?”

 

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He continued, “All those things for $17,000 per episode? I get paid more to go to the nightclub and wave. But I wanted to make the show. I wanted to make it so bad.”

50 Cent has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Awards.

As an actor, Jackson appeared in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005), the war film Home of the Brave (2006), and the crime thriller film Righteous Kill (2008). 50 Cent was ranked the sixth-best artist of the 2000s and the third-best rapper (behind Eminem and Nelly) by Billboard.

Rolling Stone ranked Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and “In da Club” in its lists of the “100 Best Albums of the 2000s” and “100 Best Songs of the 2000s” at numbers 37 and 13, respectively.[9][10] In 2023, Billboard ranked 50 Cent the 17th best rapper of all time.