Before Rotimi was starring as Dre on 50 Cent's first "Power" series, he was honing his musical talent in a singing group with Jay-Z's nephews!!!
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00:00We had singer and actor Rotimi on TMZ Verify the Podcast.
00:04He's previously on The Power Series and he's going to be on the upcoming season of The
00:07Chi.
00:08But he revealed that there was one person that was behind his entire acting career and
00:12it was Jay-Z.
00:13Because back in the day, Rotimi was in a group called NBH with Jay-Z's nephews.
00:18And he would be like, yo, act as if you are the artist and the person you want to be ten
00:24years from now.
00:25And that was like the spark that inspired Rotimi's acting career.
00:28He gives 50 credit for his music career, right?
00:30Oh yeah, he gives 50 credit for his music career because they actually lied to you,
00:34Harvey Levin.
00:35Ten years ago, 50 was going online saying that all these people owed him money and he
00:39said that Rotimi owed him $300,000.
00:42Oh I remember that.
00:43And then the next day, y'all called him up and y'all had him on TMZ Live and Rotimi
00:46was like, yeah, I owe him money.
00:47I don't know what it was, I was just confused on like, yo, we talked about this.
00:52But the whole thing was a lie.
00:53It wasn't my idea.
00:54Whose idea was it?
00:5550!
00:56It wasn't me.
00:58It worked because it boosted his song up to like number one because everyone started going
01:02to search for this song.
01:03Harvey, you checked out of this one, aren't you?
01:05Yeah, no, I'm not checked out, I'm just kind of, I feel used.
01:12It was brilliant.