Yesterday was a big day for thousands of artists, actors, and entertainers who are listed on the 2022 Emmy Award nominations that rolled out on Tuesday, July 12. Among the nominees was rapper-turned-TV mogul 50 Cent.
Fif is nominated in the category for Best Variety Special (Live) for February’s Super Bowl LVI Halftime performance with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem. In between the Feb. 13 Super Bowl, with the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals battling it out on the gridiron, many hip-hop fans and music lovers applauded the halftime show. To celebrate his nomination, the 47-year-old shared a screenshot of an article from The Hollywood Reporter, while confidently declaring he’ll take home his first biggest accolade.
“So I guess I’m gonna win my first Emmy Award,” 50 wrote in the caption on Instagram.
The 74th-annual Emmy Awards is set to take place this fall on Monday, Sept. 12. If 50 wins an Emmy, it could help him get closer to EGOT status, which goes to winners of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award. The G-Unit boss won a Grammy for his contribution on Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle” in 2010.
While 50 celebrates his Primetime Emmy nomination, many are outraged about the lack of nominations for “Power III: Raising Kanan.” The show’s creator Sascha Penn blasted the Emmy committee for snubbing the series’ lead star Patina Miller in any Best Actress category. In the third installment of the ‘Power” Universe, executive produced by 50, Miller plays a devoted mother and drug kingpin.
Penn congratulated the other nominees in an Instagram post, adding that she felt Miller and the show were “overlooked.”
“Salute to all the Emmy award nominees. But I can’t help but point out that the work being done on ‘RAISING KANAN,’ and shows like it, is also worthy of this kind of recognition,” she wrote. “And yet our cast remains criminally overlooked by virtually every awards organization. Am I biased? Hell yeah. But I’m also not an idiot.”
She continued, “PATINA MILLER is the best actress on TV right now. Period. Our industry gives a lot of lip service to progress, but these nominations tell us how far we have to go. And while I’d love to just write all of this off to business, as usual, I can’t. This s–t matters. It really does.”
50 Cent has yet to address his feelings toward “Power” or Miller not receiving an Emmy nomination this year. But he has spoken up about the show’s unrecognized success in the past. A week before the Dr. Dre-curated halftime show, 50 Cent slammed the awards show over Emmy snubs for the mega-popular television franchise that reportedly produced the top three most popular TV shows in Black and Latinx households: “Power,” “Power II: Ghost,” and “Power III.”
He compared the popularity of the “Power” universe to the success of his 2003 debut album. He told INSIDER, “It feels like the success of ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin” when you can outperform the other projects and they still pick what’s acknowledged.”
Despite having the largest debuting hip-hop album that sold 13 million records, 50 Cent lost Best New Artist to rock band Evanescence in 2004.
“So when we came with ‘Power’ and it outperformed the other projects but they don’t acknowledge it. I just looked at it like I won’t get the trophies when I’m supposed to,” he said. “I’ll get lifetime achievement awards. They’re gonna give it to me at the end when they look at everything. So you just keep working.”
