Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 2: It's hard not to be impressed by fifty cents a
Speaker 2: cent in the TV world, with over a dozen shows
Speaker 2: executive produced under his belt, with even far more on
Speaker 2: the way, and you might wonder how a major player
Speaker 2: in the rap world became a major player in TV,
Speaker 2: and fifty says a big part of it was being
Speaker 2: willing to take a massive pay cut in the beginning
Speaker 2: compared to what he was used to raking in. As
Speaker 2: An MC tells Vulture, There's no one who could tell
Speaker 2: me to take seventeen thousand dollars to act and executive
Speaker 2: produce and make music. I also gave them the theme
Speaker 2: song for Power, all those things for seventeen thousand dollars
Speaker 2: per episode. I get paid more to go to the
Speaker 2: nightclub and wave, but I wanted to make the show.
Speaker 2: I wanted to make it so badly. Those early sacrifices
Speaker 2: clearly paid off. Fifty recently signed a development deal with Fox,
Speaker 2: and he certainly didn't have to take a pay cut.
Speaker 2: It's rumored to be a nine figure deal that's
Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood,