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Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 By: Michael Ivey
Author Ethan Brown’s non-fiction book "Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler" has been picked up by The Mottola Company for a TV movie. Veteran record exec Tommy Mottola calls the investigation into some New York gangsters’ ties with the hip hop industry "by far one of the most visually stunning and engrossing stories to debut in a very long time". He and co-executive producer Jeb Brian will develop a story generated from police wiretaps and exclusive interviews into a made for tv movie. "We were very fortunate in that Ethan saw eye-to-eye with us on exactly how to take this from the printed page to the screen, without sacrificing its visceral account of an American-born subculture that’s at once colorful, exceptionally influential and, given the violence, tragic", says Mottola.
"Queens Reigns Supreme" chronicles the rise and fall of famous Queens street figures like Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols, Gerald "Prince" Miller, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, and Thomas "Tony Montana" Mickens. Ethan Brown says it’s an honor to collaborate with Mottola and that he "truly grasps what 'Queens Reigns Supreme' is all about." Brown reports on music, crime and drug policy for Wired, New York, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and GQ. Tommy Mottola is the head of Casablanca Records. He served as head of Sony Music Entertainment from 1988 to 2003 and engineered the rise of soul/rock group Hall & Oats and ex wife Mariah Carey
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