While the hit Starz show chronicles a crime family, it also paints perhaps the truest picture of Detroit, according to showrunner Randy Huggins: 'Being a curator of what the world gets to see about my hometown, it was essential that I got even the smallest details right.'
My hometown is a study in contradictions. It was once the most American of American cities and its third-most populated. It is beautiful and ugly, warm-hearted and cold-weathered. Through the good and bad, being from Detroit teaches you to keep an open hand and a closed fist.
I’ve spent my entire professional television writing career paying homage to the ethos of the D. So when Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson approached me about telling the story ofis inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in this country.
Through Meech and Terry, I got to delve into 1980s Detroit. As jobs, schools and city services began to deteriorate, the brothers watched their parents struggle and took to the streets to make a better way for their family. This is the story of the boon n’ bust cycle of American capitalism.
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