Over the last year, more and more rappers have been playing major roles on televisions. Whether they created the shows themselves or are acting in them, plenty of rhyme slingers are jumping from the recording studio to your living room. 50 Cent is gearing up to premiere his new television series, but he's not the only one with a new show. Here are 18 other rappers who are coming out with or have a brand-new TV series right now.

 

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Eve

Eve is set to star and executive produce a new ABC romantic comedy which is rumored to focus on interracial relationship.

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50 Cent

50 Cent will be executive producing by and co-starring in a upcoming TV series for STARZ network alongside Courtney Kemp Agboh (The Good Wife), Mark Canton (300), Randall Emmett(Lone Survivor) and David Knoller (Big Love). The title of the new eight-episode series is called Power.

Power stars  Omari Hardwick (For Colored Girls) as a New York City nightclub owner who dabbles with the drug enterprise. The rapper himself is featured as a friend of the aspiring mogul and kingpin. The show is set to premiere at this year’s MIPTV

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Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino is gearing up to put out his series on FX.  Glover is set to “write, executive produce and play the lead in a half-hour comedy” called Atlanta. 

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Method Man

Method Man is the voice actor of one of the characters on the new FX animated series Chozen, which chronicles the life of a gay white rapper released from prison.

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Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah is on VH1′s Couples Therapy. Ghost along with his girlfriend Kelsey Nykole, get relationship counseling from celebrity psychotherapist  Dr. Jenn Berman.

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Queen Latifah

 

Queen Latifah currently has her own brand new talk show on CBS called “The Queen Latifah Show” which started in Sept. 2013

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MC Merch

MC Serch from the Hip-hop group 3rd Bass has his own new daytime TV show called Serch which was picked up by CBS.  Checkout episode one here.

 

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Q-Tip

Q-Tip along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are developing a scripted TV series, roughly based on the rapper’s experience during the Native Tongues era.

 

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MC Lyte

MC Lyte is starring in her own reality show on BET alongside The Lady Of Rage, Yo Yo, Smooth, Monie Love and Lil Mama titled Hip-Hop Sisters.

How is Hip-Hop Sisters?

It’s coming along great, we actually start filming this month. We’re all excited, the ladies are all excited. We’re all performing in New Orleans the day before the hip-hop awards, and then we all fly to the awards together. It’s an exciting time. They’re all friends. We speak often.

How long will you guys be shooting for?
Right now we’re shooting a pilot presentation, because we’re dealing with a lot of subject matter that we want to make sure that everybody is really cool with the way that they are presented, which is probably not like any other docu-series where they’re like, film, shoot, show it, bye. But with this we want everyone comfortable, so we’re stepping through the process to leave everyone with a good feeling. It’s a lot of stuff—if you could imagine your life and just all of the parts, and now you’re talking about women, which is a lot more, then you’re talking about six of them. There’s just a lot of parts.

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Saigon/Joe Budden/ Peter Gunz

Saigon, Joe Budden and Peter Gunz are in the latest season of Love and Hip-Hop NYC.

 

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Power 105.1

REVOLT TV and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment announced their partnership to televise Power 105.1′s The Breakfast Club radio show. It will be televised live Monday through Friday on REVOLT TV beginning on Mar.  3rd, 2014 from 6 a.m.-10 a.m. Now even though this isn't a "rapper" The Breakfast Club frequently host rap stars on their show and a prominent hip-hop geared radio show.

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Seeds Of Hip Hop

Five sons of iconic rappers are collectively shopping a reality show about their lives to major networks. Dr. Dre's son Curtis Young, Eazy E's son, Eric Lynn Wright Jr., aka Lil Eazy E, MC Ren's son Anthony Dunbar, Jam Master Jay's son Jason Mizell and E-40’s offspring Droop-E.

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