50 Cent teases possible Vice City GTA project

Rapper sparks speculation about involvement in GTA 6 or a TV show

Marco Wutz | Mar 2, 2023

50 Cent teases possible Vice City GTA project /

Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, has sparked speculation about him being involved in a project featuring Grand Theft Auto’s iconic Vice City.

Posting an image featuring a Vice City logo on his Instagram account, he wrote: “I will Explain this later, GLG🚦GreenLightGang this shit bigger than POWER trust me. 💣BOOM” (thanks, Eurogamer).

GTA Vice City. — A look at Vice City from Rockstar's recent remaster of the old game / Rockstar

Power is Jackson’s crime drama show, which finished its final season on Starz in 2020 after a very successful run and spawned a whole bunch of spin-off shows. Jackson himself starred as one character on the show as well as a spin-off centered around him, but also was the executive producer.

Since this was such a big project for him, his mention of this one being “bigger” has unleashed a bunch of speculation about a possible GTA TV show based around the Vice City game or just set in the infamous location, which itself is basically Rockstar’s version of Miami. Another possibility is that 50 Cent will have a part in GTA 6, which is very likely to take place in a modern version of Vice City and is pretty much guaranteed to be very big indeed.

Historically, Rockstar wasn’t too thrilled about bringing GTA over to a different medium and even rejected a pitch to do a GTA movie with Eminem. With video games being adapted for TV left and right nowadays – and with some success, as The Last of Us or Arcane show – Rockstar might have changed its mind about this whole thing.

Let’s hope 50 Cent defines “I will explain this later” sooner rather than later.

Published Mar 2, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg