TV Guide: 50 Cent: The Money and the Power

Video: 50 Cent: The Money and The Power Season 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:59:41 -0500

Hip-Hop sensation and music mogul 50 Cent teams up with MTV to bring you the newest elimination reality show. The contestants, hand picked by 50 himself, have proven themselves to be savvy, street-smart and successful in their own right. But now it's time to prove themselves to 50 and see who has the power to earn 50's money.

Video: Crush Your Competition

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:13:54 -0500

In the season finale, three eliminated contestants return to help the final three players compete in a trash-talking contest. Afterwards, the loser gets eliminated. Then the final two get a special gift from 50 Cent during crucial 1-on-1 talks on the eve of their final presentations. Later, the finalists get new clothes and one gets a new look. And lastly, the final two present their business plans to 50 Cent, Chris Lighty, and Tony Yayo with 50 awarding the winner $100,000 of his own money.

Video: Knowledge Reigns Supreme

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:35:59 -0500

In the most challenging episode of the season, the four remaining contestants are kidnapped, blindfolded, re-educated and shot with paintball guns. After the test, 50 quizzes them on their experiences at Camp Curtis. For each wrong answer, the cast must run laps around the camp. The last place runner will be put up for elimination. The fit Mehgan and Ryan have an advantage -- Larry and Cornbreadd are out of shape. But the loser isn't who you'd expect.

Video: Move From Demand to Supply

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:38:53 -0500

It's down to the final five contestants in week 8 of the competition and the tension at Camp Curtis is as heavy as it has been. The five remaining campers talk much less and concentrate much more as the reality of winning $100,000 is sinking in. But soon they are back in the game as 50 Cent switches up the teams, breaking up alliances and plans previously hatched. Along with special guest star, LL Cool J, 50 sends the new teams out to write and produce video sequences that will supply an ever-growing number of obese teens with a fun way to get active and lose weight. With Derrick and Ryan, the two most athletic of the remaining campers together on Team Power, they have a clear advantage going into the test, but the day's top performer may surprise you.Later, 50's legendary business manager, Chris Lighty, stops by for one-on-one discussions with the remaining campers. Going through their business proposals, Lighty finds major issues with each camper's plans, and lets them all know

Video: Expand and Protect Your Turf

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:27:36 -0500

As the competition heats up, 50 Cent decides to increase the intensity and send one of the strongest contestants home in a surprise elimination. Then the teams display their sales skills on the street corners of the Bronx, in a test to see who can sell the most Vitamin Water. And when the losers must do the winners' laundry, some players do not take the news well. Finally, 50 shocks the campers with an early morning elimination that sends one of the most popular contestants home.

Video: Use Your Cents to Make Change

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:51:56 -0500

Team Money and Team Power learn about their new test - teaching jaded New Yorkers in the Bronx about safe sex. But the shared warm feelings of a good deed well done soon devolves into bickering and backstabbing. At the end of the day, however, 50 is the boss: Will he reward their community service, or punish the guilty?

Video: The Hustler's Eye

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:12:46 -0500

In week five of the competition, 50 Cent tells campers that it's time to, "see things for what they really are," not only in business, but in each other. And what the campers see isn't too pretty. As campers assume the roles of one another, hurtful truths are on display for all to see. Later, 50 Cent, along with guest star, Aubrey O'Day, of Danity Kane, puts the campers through a test that requires both brains and brawn - assembling 30 foot 'billboard' puzzles. The losing team's punishment will be remembered for a long time. Musso, thus far a strong competitor, begins to feel the pressure from his fellow campers as well as 50 and threatens to leave camp for good. Assuming the role of Public Enemy #1, will he survive another week at camp?

Video: Respect the Hustle

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:27:26 -0500

Two contestants get a special reward and earn a trip to 50 Cent's legendary Connecticut mansion. Then the teams show off their hustling skills on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one contestant can't handle the pressure of the competition and leaves Camp Curtis early. Later, controversy erupts in the house as one contestant is called out by the rest of the cast for secretly talking smack about them to 50. Finally, everyone is shocked when one of the competition's strongest players gets "dropped" by 50.

Video: Truth=Money

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:12:17 -0500

The teams are challenged to create an authentic and marketable artist. Team Money has management disputes from the beginning while Team Power is all smiles. Both teams have a very special opportunity to get out of Camp Curtis for an evening. You won t believe who gets half naked on a stripper pole. The pressure cooker heats up the next day once the test is completed. After losing, one team erupts into screaming hysterics that causes security to separate the cast. Back at Camp Curtis, a couple cast members breakdown into uncontrollable sobs when they realize that they may be the next to go home.

Video: S*** To Sugar

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:19:32 -0500

By 50 Cent's design, life, for the 13 remaining campers at Camp Curtis, is not easy. In the second week of competition, campers find themselves dealing with hot and smelly conditions - both at camp and in this week's test. 50 teaches the campers how to "turn nothing into something," in the "S**t to Sugar" test. Team Money coerces Nikki into an unwanted leadership roll while Team Power deals with a weak link in Nathan. Nima embraces a roll as the troublemaker, distracting others whenever possible. But 50 Cent sends the message that this is hardly fun and games... and someone will be sent packing much earlier than expected.

Video: Choose Your Crew Wisely

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:43:03 -0500

In the series opener, 14 aspiring young entrepreneurs arrive in New York City to begin an intense competition as millionaire hip-hop mogul 50 Cent searches for an ambitious, hustling self-starter with street smarts to invest $100,000 of his own money in. The contestants' first test is a 5-mile race from Roosevelt Island to Camp Curtis, their house in Brooklyn. Of course, there's one big twist - the contestants must run chained together - chain gang style. And when tension escalates into multiple confrontations, several contestants find themselves in fear of being eliminated. In the end, 50 "drops" one player, sending them packing and ending their dream of a $100,000 investment.