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50 Cent Says ‘Power’ Getting Snubbed By The Emmys Is Racial

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Every year &num;Emmy nominations roll out and for the past five years&comma; Starz’ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Power” has been absent from the list&period; Well&comma; it looks like &num;50Cent is fed up with it and finally decided to speak on it&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">50 Cent said he thinks &num;Power being overlooked by the Emmys over the years was racial given the predominantly black cast despite the show’s success&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;abcnews&period;go&period;com&sol;Entertainment&sol;wireStory&sol;50-cent-power-overlooked-emmys-racial-64598147">&commat;abcnews<&sol;a> reports&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;I like to say it&&num;8217&semi;s racial&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s the easy way to get out of things&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said 50&comma; who serves as executive producer of the series&comma; during a panel discussion Friday at the Television Critics Association Press Tour&period; &&num;8220&semi;People who are running and connected to these ceremonies are not necessarily cool people&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">After 50 Cent said what he said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Power&&num;8221&semi; creator &num;CourtneyKemp sarcastically said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;So now&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll never get one&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The series has become one of Starz’ most popular shows and has even led to several upcoming spin-offs&period; But the popularity of the series has not translated into Emmy nominations&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">50 Cent said he’s already been here before in that he experienced being overlooked during his music career&comma; especially when his debut studio album &&num;8220&semi;Get Rich or Die Tryin&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8221&semi; was released in 2003&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;This project is the same material I used for my music&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t receive an award for best new artist when I had the largest debut for a hip-hop album&period; I sold more records for a first album today&period; I look at it the same&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to make the numbers&period; The viewership before we&&num;8217&semi;re done with it&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;ll be looking around saying &&num;8216&semi;Yeah&comma; we &lpar;expletive&rpar; up again&period;&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8220&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;Power&&num;8221&semi; will air its sixth and final season in two parts&comma; Starz announced&period; The first half&comma; which 10 episodes&comma; will begin as previously announced on August 25th&period; Then the concluding five episodes will start airing in January&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Kemp added the Emmy snubs were &&num;8220&semi;disappointing&period;&&num;8221&semi; But she was happy that the show has gotten recognition from their &&num;8220&semi;core audience&comma;&&num;8221&semi; including the NAACP Image Awards&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">&&num;8220&semi;I thought we were doing something new and fresh&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kemp said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I was hoping that the Emmy voters would take notice&comma; and they didn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; You just accept it and move on&period; But we&&num;8217&semi;ve been winning Image Awards now for quite some time&period; It feels as though our core audience does love and respect the show&period; Not every show gets the attention it deserves&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 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