*50 Cent appeared on The Breakfast Club and discussed his fractured relationship actor Omari Hardwick.
Hardwick has publicly shared his ill feelings about his “Power” character, James “Ghost” St. Patrick, and how he was killed off. The hit Starz TV series ran from June 7, 2014, to February 9, 2020. Ghost, the main character in the show, was shot by his son Tariq and died in the arms of his best friend Tommy. During a panel discussion at the Uninterrupted Film Festival, Hardwick called out the show’s writers and executive producers, Courtney A. Kemp and 50 Cent, for misleading him about the trajectory of his character.
Omari claims that Kemp and 50 Cent deviated from the initial character arc they had promised him.
“This was everybody’s uncle,” he said of the character’s reliability. “Whether Jamie or Ghost, he was everybody’s uncle who was, more importantly, trying to go right from going wrong,” Hardwick continued. “And I loved him, and I always will love him. But I just want fans to always remember I played the guy. I’m a little bit bigger than him. So it’s better to follow me than a character.”
When 50 Cent heard his comments, the hip-hop star expressed his confusion on social media.
“This [ninja emoji] is a strange bird. The f**k is he talking about, [raised-eyebrow emoji] I never done nothing but look out for him,” he wrote on Instagram. “If he needed something I gave it to him. I understand now, that sh*t didn’t matter.”
During his recent visit to The Breakfast Club, the rapper and TV producer spoke further about his fall out with Hardwick.
“I think [Omari] overvalues himself, to be honest with you. Since then, it’s been a long time since he hasn’t been in Power. Why are we not excited about the new project,” said 50, Complex reports. “If there was noise going on and he was that big of a draw, then we would see the noise and the new things happening. We see you out where you’re actively in a place where people are looking for you.”
He added, “He leaves it like it’s me not giving you the money. If he sitting there and he going ‘Courtney and 50 know,’ you saying that, they don’t know who the fuck Courtney is, I introduce people to her. They don’t know who she is, so you leaving it as ’50 didn’t make sure I got paid.’ Mary [J. Blige] will tell you, she got paid a lot of money on the show while she was there the whole time. I made sure that she was right.”
In 2022, during a conversation on The Pivot podcast, Omari complained about earning $150,000 per episode, saying, “I still haven’t made what I should have made. I still never made the money—no, the money, I never made what I should have made. Never.”
Watch 50 Cent’s conversation with The Breakfast Club via the YouTube clip above.
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