50 Cent Secures 45 Year Lease For G-Unit Studios Shreveport!
While other artists in the hip hop community continue to take the petty road like Kanye or they are stuck in prison for all their underhanded moves over the years like Diddy or even the forgotten R&B artist like R. Kelly whose sexual predator moves landed him life; rapper, artist, entrepenuer, producer, actor and philantropist Curtis ’50 Cent Jackson makes major moves with G-Unit studios in Shreveport…
CelebnMusic247.com previous reported that Fiddy was heading to the south to open a movie studio in Shreveport, but now we have more information on the progress he has been making on his G-Unit Studios.
According to the Shreveport Post, 50 Cent has now been given 45-year lease for former Shreveport Stageworks.
“I’m looking at all these faces and wondering who won’t be voting for me,” laughed media mogul and rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, a surprise visitor to Tuesday’s Shreveport City Council meeting.
For nearly a year, a lease of Stageworks at 400 Clyde Fant Parkway to Jackson’s G-Unit Film and Television had been sitting on the council agenda, bedeviled by small issues.“I’m absolutely not going to be a no vote, but we welcome you to the city. It’s been a building that sat there a long time with very little or no use, and we’re all very excited about hopefully our future together,” said councilman Grayson Boucher.
Councilman Alan Jackson believed the vote on something that “used to be a controversy” would be unanimous.
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“I think this is kind of just like one of your films, you’re keeping us in suspense, and I think that that’s good for us to kind of be in a little bit of suspense, but we’re excited. We’re ready.”
A majority of the members of the council spoke up to make — and then second — the motion to take the vote. When the votes were tallied, it was 7-0 in favor of the lease, a unanimous approval.
After the vote, Jackson stepped to the podium again. You know, I’ve been in places with a lot of people. And I’ve never been this nervous before.”
“I just want to say, in a short period of time, I’ve come to like the people of Shreveport in a different way, like it feels like a home away from home for me and it will eventually be home, because I have so much work here.”
“I promise I will overdeliver with Shreveport,” said Jackson of the Stageworks building.
Discussion on the vote began in earnest at the Monday administrative work session when Mayor Tom Arceneaux set the stage for his desired Tuesday vote.
Like Fiddy says, “All roads lead to Shreveport, ? time to work no games being played.”
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