You Can Expect a Lot More Raising Kanan, Plus Two Other Power Spinoffs

Is ‘Raising Kanan’ in line with a true tale? See how 50 Cent, executive manufacturer and narrator for the Starz sequence, drew on his personal formative years.

The Starz drama Power Book III: Raising Kanan, the second derivative of the hit crime drama Power, is airing its season finale this night, Sunday, Sept. 26. But lovers needn’t worry: Starz already renewedRaising Kanan for a 2d season.

In fact, the top rate cabler ordered Season 2 back in July, even earlier than Season 1 even began to depict the early life of its titular persona, the nature 50 Cent plays on Power.

“One season isn’t enough to tell the coming of age story of Kanan Stark and his mom, Raq, a fierce and a hit girl who's a force of nature,” Jeffrey Hirsch, president and CEO of Starz, mentioned in a press release on the time. “The anticipation globally for more of the Power Universe made it transparent that the Kanan story needs to continue.”

Like Power, Raising Kanan tells a fictional tale. But 50 Cent, who’s an government producer at the spinoff and the display’s narrator, informed Sky News in July that he drew upon his personal formative years in Queens, N.Y.

In one early scene on the show, as an example, Raq (Patina Miller) tells Kanan (Mekai Curtis) to go back to a town park to battle the children who beat him up.

“These are actual issues,” 50 Cent stated. “Like, I truly skilled being roughed up within the park ahead of my mother despatched me back to the park, and I was simply more scared of her than the children in the park, so I finished up going back to combat them as a substitute of dealing with my mother.”

The rapper went on: “You take care of that and it roughly adjustments your standpoint. Like, ‘I’m no longer going to return whining to my mom for her to send me back. I’ll simply care for it earlier than she reveals out that I’m scared or petrified of the other individual.’ So it kind of modified a part of my persona in the very early phases.”

What year is ‘Raising Kanan’ set in?

Get able for some critical ‘90s nostalgia: Raising Kanan is set in 1991.

“In 1991, at 15 years old, Kanan was a child,” star Mekai Curtis told the New York Amsterdam News in July. “He was attempting to figure out what his role at school was once, what his role at house was once, what his position in life was once. But his largest factor was to be there for his mom.”

Mekai went on: “In this adventure, you’re going to see that he had the uncooked innate instincts however lacked boulevard smarts, experience, and sport. You’re going to see how his setting, influences, and alternatives made him lose his innocence and desensitized him and effect the person that we saw.”

Will there be more ‘Power’ spinoffs?

The Power Universe is expanding swiftly! As TVLine stories, Starz is growing two other spinoffs to enroll in Power, which premiered in 2014, and Power Book II: Ghost, which made its debut a 12 months in the past, and Power Book III: Raising Kanan, which introduced in July.

Next up at the building slate is Power Book IV: Force, for which actor Joseph Sikora will reprise his a part of drug broker Tommy Egan. After that comes Power Book V: Influence, which can track baby-kisser Rashad Tate, played in Power by way of Larenz Tate.

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