When can I watch BMF Episode 7?

Starz’s hit crime drama BMF has done what no other scripted TV series has been able to do. It brought together Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, his musical mentor Eminem and rap legend Snoop Dogg.

Jackson, who executive-produces the show, directed Sunday’s Episode 7, titled “All In the Family.”  Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg costarred as Pastor Swift, and Detroit native Eminem made a brief cameo as “White Boy” Rick Wershe.

The installment also featured Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr., who raps in real life and stars as his father Big Meech on BMF. Detroit rapper Kash Doll, who costars as Monique, completed the package as the on-again-off-again love interest of Big Meech and his rival Lamar.

“That’s the power of hip-hop,” showrunner Randy Huggins excitedly tells TVLine. “Tell me when five hip-hop stars have been on one episodic drama? You can’t, because it’s never been done. The fact that we had 50 Cent directing? Come on. That’s huge. And he used his connections to pull in his boy Eminem. We’re making history here.”

Eric Kofi-Abrefa, who costars as Lamar, says having 50 Cent as a director heightened his already edifying experience on BMF. In one action-packed scene from Episode 7, the British actor’s character is shot and nearly killed by drug-dealing competitors. (Lamar is a character amalgamation loosely based on a real Detroit gangster named Layton Simon.)

For Huggins, BMF, which tells the story of Detroit kingpins the Flenory brothers, is an opportunity to tell a gangster story from a Black perspective set in a very Black city.

“Movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas romanticize crime and gangsters all the time,” Huggins surmises. “The Black community has its own gangsters, and BMF tells the story of two of them and what that looked like and where it all began.”

What did you think of BMF Episode 7 and Eminem’s guest-starring turn? Are you hoping 50 Cent will direct more TV installments? Drop your thoughts in the comments. 

The rapper-turned-EP took to Twitter and Instagram this weekend to decry Starz and its premature streaming of Episode 7 of BMF, because the Detroit-set crime drama was supposed to be on a week-long hiatus.

On Monday, Starz released a statement saying a technical glitch was to blame for the early release, but didn’t say how many viewers actually watched before it was taken down.

“The fan demand for BMF, and specifically this highly-anticipated episode directed by executive producer Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson, is undeniable,” a network spokesperson said in a statement. “There was a technical glitch that allowed fans that have the Starz app, who logged in right at midnight, to temporarily access the episode early. The episode will be released globally, as planned, on Sunday, Nov. 14, across all Starz platforms.”

But Jackson had publicly made his ire known already.

“Starz is a s–t show, they better sell it fast,” Jackson tweeted a day before Starz released its statement. “They put the f–king BMF show on, then took it down. What network does s–t like that? They just ruined the anticipation of the episode I directed, I WORKED HARD ON THIS. I can’t work with these people anymore.”

“They called me saying they wanted to hold Episode 7 back a week so we can roll right into Ghost,” he wrote. “I said cool. Then these s–thead people put the f–king episode out for three hours and take it down. This is not ok. When I get uncomfortable, I make everybody uncomfortable. Now who getting fired?”

In another tweet, Jackson thanked rapper, friend and Detroit native Eminem for guest-starring in the installment as “White Boy Rick” Wershe and added, “Episode 7 of BMF is the best work I have done directing to date. I’m disappointed that Starz handled this so poorly. I used my personal relationships to make things happen they couldn’t have made happen.”

Prior to this, Jackson directed an episode of his first Starz drama, Power, during its sixth and final season.

What do you think of 50 Cent’s BMF beef with Starz? And will you tune in either way? Drop your thoughts in the comments. 

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