50 Cent launched BizCamp in Shreveport this week as part of his plan to train youth and revitalize the city through film and entrepreneurship.
50 Cent launched his BizCamp program in Shreveport last week as part of his plan to revitalize the city through education and entertainment.
More than 40 young participants, dressed in business attire, gathered outside a red-brick building for the kickoff of BizCamp, a youth entrepreneurship initiative backed by his G-Unity Foundation.
The program, which ended yesterday (June 13), taught students how to build businesses while promoting what Jackson calls “conscious capitalism.”
The rapper-turned-mogul has been steadily expanding his footprint in northwest Louisiana since 2023 when he signed a 30-year lease on the Millennium Studio complex with an option to extend it to 45 years.
The once-neglected facility is now being transformed into the new headquarters for G-Unit Film & Television.
50 Cent shared a photo celebrating the event, showing students and mentors posing on the steps of the building. His caption read: “@gunityfoundation Biz Camp is in full effect in Shreveport.
“Think Big SHREVEPORT is going to be the place to be Music, Art, Entertainment, entrepreneurship at its best. things are gonna change. It might feel like it’s me but it’s God and the good people of Louisiana,” 50 Cent said.
The BizCamp initiative is just one part of Jackson’s larger vision for the city.
On March 25, he made a surprise appearance at a Shreveport City Council meeting to secure a lease on the shuttered StageWorks venue. The space will be converted into a multi-use arena for boxing, MMA, concerts, car shows and more.
Later phases of the project include investments in affordable housing, with profits from future festivals and events being reinvested in community programs run by the G-Unity Foundation.
If completed as planned, G-Unit Studios will become the second-largest Black-owned production facility in the country, behind only Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
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