50 Cent continued to show his contempt for the Emmy Awards while boasting about the success of his show Power. The G-Unit leader shared a press release about the ratings for the STARZ series’ sixth season premiere via Instagram and threw a jab at the Emmys in his post.
“The EMMY’s can kiss my black ass in slow motion,” he wrote. “Fuck em I’m #1 They a bunch of Bengay my back hurt smelling ass old people anyway. LOL #lecheminduroi #bransoncognac.”
50 previously expressed his frustration over Power’s lack of Emmy nominations while speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour. The outspoken rapper claimed race played a role in the show getting snubbed.
“I like to say it’s racial,” he said. “That’s the easy way to get out of things. People who are running and connected to these ceremonies are not necessarily cool people.”
The sixth season premiere of Power aired Sunday night (August 25). According to STARZ, the episode was watched by 2.3 million total viewers.
The show was the most-watched scripted premium cable series premiere of the summer and made a major impact on social media. Nielsen Social Ratings and ListenFirst Interest Score determined it was Sunday’s top social primetime series across broadcast, cable and syndicated networks with #PowerTV becoming Twitter’s No. 1 trending topic in the U.S.
Nine more episodes of Power are scheduled to air in the coming weeks. The show will then take a hiatus before premiering the final five episodes of its sixth season in 2020.
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Oh please. Power has a bit of a buzz and most of that started because of 50 and Em stans. I’m not even hating, the shows..ok but no way it’s even Emmy worthy foh.
that’s YOUR opinion but it is according to fans and critics
WHERE’S the fucking Emmy then Frankie boy? Critics are easy to buy btw. You sound like the type of dude who’s so easily manipulated by social media and “news” sites lol
If one of the best critically acclaimed well-written shows HBO created which was THE WIRE never won an Emmy how the hell does 50 think POWER suppose to get nominated for accolades. POWER is light years behind THE WIRE in every possible category. The Emmys, on the other hand, is more a popularity contest so shows as THE WIRE and POWER will never get any love cause its mainly black actors as the main characters and Emmys do not celebrate black. Just saying
I was with you all the way until the end when you made it a race thing lol
Prove me wrong. There have only been 33 individual black actors that have won an Emmy. I’m strictly talking about a show that has an almost all black cast. It’s never happened. If the show FRIENDS was an all black cast with the same writers the same jokes would it have won best comedy series? Just a question?
The Award Shows handing out Awards to blacks for being black left and right. Atlanta gets all the time Emmys.
……What ….. AND Hell boys comment hit it on the head ask any old head celebrity (Danny DeVito) They will tell you, if its not relatable to those rating it, and they tend to be white or white washed, then its a big no for me dawg. Sad but true. Why white people always wanna ignore race and not admit that its a factor? Probably because you don’t wanna believe what we already know.
The acting on Power is horrible. It’s worse than any Tyler Perry drama out there. Tyler’s shows are weak because he rushes through all of them. I’d Tyler focuses on one show and made it strong, he could do it. Forty and co could never do any of that. What’s Power’s excuse? Fofty is a crybaby bitch.
Someone explain to Fifty that Emmys don’t go out for good ratings. You win over great content and good acting/writing/producing, etc.
Again, I lost so much respect for 50 now. I loved the dude, and his underground music was the shit! Been a giant fan for decades now… But now, he reduced himself to this bullshit? Blaming his shows lack of awards on a black cast? Ridiculous. I even liked Power a bit, but it’s simply not that great of a show. Award shows love to credit valck artists nowadays. I mean, it’s liberal Hollywood for God’s sake. Theyd do anything to pander to black people in America in 2019. But 50, I lost the respect I had for you the second you blamed skin color on the reason your show hasn’t been nominated for awards. 50 is a child, who constnalty complains when he doesn’t reach a goal that most popular TV shows will never, ever see in their lifetimes.
Since this site likes to delete my comments and doesn’t believe in 1st amendment rights in the USA, I will have to post again. Power is on some noname network named starz (with a z lol). if the show was any good it would be on hbo or showtime with the big boys. I never met anyone who watches this show
Emmy is you kidding me half cents. I disliked the fbi or cia office or whatever that place they use to hold shit. Casting is crap.
When Power came out, primarily Seasons 1 and 2, the writing was great, the plot lines were intriguing and it was an all-around great show. Now, that shit is TRASH. It hurts me to say it. I can’t even talk about it on Facebook and other social media because I don’t want to argue with my people who still worshipping the show acting like it’s great. I loved that show. Now it’s like watching a dope fiend family member get worse and worse every year while the people around him act like he’s still himself.