{"id":1001,"date":"2021-11-10T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2021-11-12T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:36:53","slug":"detroits-eminem-to-play-detroits-infamous-white-boy-rick-in-coming-bmf-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2021\/11\/10\/detroits-eminem-to-play-detroits-infamous-white-boy-rick-in-coming-bmf-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit’s Eminem To Play Detroit’s Infamous ‘White Boy Rick’ in coming BMF episode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eminem will portray Richard Wershe, notoriously known as White Boy Rick in a coming episode of BMF. Wershe at a very young age found himself among Detroit’s top drug dealers, and was likewise at a young age recruited by the FBI at the age of only 14 to be an FBI informant and later double crossed when a local prosecutor caused the FBI to renege on their deal and was sentenced at the age of 18 in 1987, to life in prison for a drug crime. Wershe was freed from prison in July 2020 after serving 33 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent episodes of BMF, producer 50 Cent has begun inviting top rappers to play various roles in the Detroit (Ecorse) based drama, Rapper Snoop Dogg has recently made a surprise appearance as Pastor Swift in two episodes of BMF so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the popular series, Kofi-Abrefa stars as Lamar Silas, the violent and unpredictable street rival to the notorious Flenory brothers (played by Rusell Hornsby and Demetrius Flenory Jr. in which Flenory Jr is playing his own real-life father, \u2018Big Meech\u2019) also noted in a recent interview that the crime drama plans to introduce a number of well-known music stars to its already impressive supporting cast stating  “As the (brand new Starz) series goes on, hip-hop fans could start spotting even more of their favourites over the coming weeks.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main cast member said “he would love to welcome even more cultural icons to the BMF family” adding \u201cI think, maybe, more people might just pop up,\u201d he teased. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eminem will portray Richard Wershe, notoriously known as White Boy Rick in a coming episode of BMF. Wershe at a very young age found himself among Detroit’s top drug dealers, and was likewise at a young age recruited by the FBI at the age of only 14 to be an FBI informant and later double […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,196],"tags":[349,351,350],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}