50 Fun Facts About Power (TV Series)

Which nightclub do James 'Ghost' St. Patrick and Tommy Egan open in Power to launder the profits of their drug network?

Truth is where the money gets cleaned and where the story ends: Ghost is shot there and falls from its balcony in season 6's midseason finale. It was also shut by police after the season 1 finale shooting.

In Power's series finale, who fires the shot that kills Ghost after a plan for Tasha to do it?

His son Tariq pulls the trigger, breaking with the plan that Tasha would commit the crime, and Tasha then takes the fall and ends the series in a cell. The pair first try to pin it on Dre, then on Q.

Which R&B star plays Monet Tejada, the queenpin whose family Tariq gets entangled with in Power Book II: Ghost?

Mary J. Blige was cast the day Starz ordered the series in July 2019, nearly six months before any other role was announced. Monet is second-in-command of the Tejada drug operation and mother of Cane, Dru and Diana.

Power aired on Starz in the US, but which streaming service carried it weekly in the UK and Ireland?

Netflix carries Power in Britain and Ireland, which is why so many fans there think of it as a Netflix show. In Australia it streams on Stan and in Scandinavia on HBO Nordic.

In Power Book IV: Force, Tommy Egan heads for California but stays in which city after finding his grandmother alive?

Chicago becomes his base once he learns his grandmother is alive and that he has an older half-brother, JP, there; he tells the associate waiting in California to find someone else.

Which Power lead, Ghost himself, went unpicked in the NFL Draft and later earned Grammy nods for spoken-word poetry?

Omari Hardwick hoped to join the San Diego Chargers before acting, once lived in his car to pay for classes, and placed top five at the National Poetry Slam years before Power.

Which Wu-Tang Clan member plays Davis MacLean, the costly lawyer keeping Tasha and Tariq out of prison in Power Book II?

Method Man's MacLean is billed as the most expensive 'non-losing' defense attorney around, and he later absorbs his old courtroom enemy Cooper Saxe into his own firm.

Which singer replaced Joe on a remixed Power theme for the season 6 premiere, until fan backlash restored the original?

Trey Songz's remix, which also featured A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, lasted two episodes before 50 Cent announced the original would play again from episode 603. Songz said the pile-on 'hurt my feelings'.

Which 50 Cent track, with R&B singer Joe on the hook, opens every episode of Power and later went silver in Britain?

Big Rich Town came from the Power soundtrack album rather than a 50 Cent LP, and 50 Cent went on to perform the opening theme for every spin-off in the franchise as well.

Which former 3LW singer, who played Lil' Kim in the biopic Notorious, stars as Ghost's wife Tasha St. Patrick in Power?

Naturi Naughton left 3LW in 2002 amid a public split, then played Tasha across all six seasons and into Book II, where Tasha ends up hidden in witness protection.

Which relative of creator Courtney Kemp, the dedicatee of Power's pilot, was her model for James 'Ghost' St. Patrick?

Her father Herbert Kemp Jr., the first African American graduate of Dartmouth's Tuck business school, died in 2011 and the pilot is dedicated to his memory. Kemp was one of few Black families in Westport, Connecticut.

Before pitching Power, creator Courtney Kemp made her name writing episodes of which CBS legal drama?

The Good Wife was Kemp's calling card when she met 50 Cent and producer Mark Canton at a Los Angeles coffeehouse and pitched a dealer trying to go legitimate as a club owner. Power was the first series she ever sold.

At which university does Tariq St. Patrick study in Power Book II: Ghost, rooming with a hedge-fund heir?

Stansfield is a fictional campus, and Tariq's roommate there is his prep-school friend from a Wall Street family; his 'American Psyche' professor Harper Benett is engaged to Councilman Rashad Tate.

Ghost and Tasha set up their mentor Kanan Stark before Power begins, sending him to prison for how many years?

Ten years inside convinced Kanan that Ghost had betrayed him, and from his cell he ordered the season 1 attacks on Ghost's couriers while pinning the blame on one of Ghost's closest friends.

How many armed people with grudges converged on Ghost's club the night he was shot in Power season 6?

Seven suspects — Saxe, Dre, Paz, Tate, Tariq, Tommy and Tasha — were all shown packing heat, and the reveal was held back for the final five episodes of the series.

Power Book III: Raising Kanan goes back to 1991 in which Queens neighbourhood, the same one 50 Cent was raised in?

South Jamaica is where 50 Cent's mother raised him until her death when he was eight, and the prequel follows a 15-year-old Kanan helping his own mother Raq grow her drug business there.

Which House alumnus plays Detective Malcolm Howard, secretly Kanan's biological parent, in Raising Kanan?

Omar Epps spent eight seasons as House's Dr. Eric Foreman, and here his NYPD detective carries the secret that Raq has kept from Kanan since birth.

Which Tony winner for Pippin, Commander Paylor in the Hunger Games films, plays Kanan's mother Raq in Raising Kanan?

Patina Miller won her Tony as Pippin's Leading Player in 2013, and years earlier was one of three finalists for Effie in Dreamgirls, the role that won Jennifer Hudson an Oscar.

Which Brooklyn rapper, founder of the Pro Era collective, plays Raq's rival drug lord Unique in Raising Kanan?

Joey Bada$$'s Unique starts as Raq's rival and later becomes her love interest, and his stoic older brother Ronnie walks out of prison to complicate season 3.

Which former Kirby Buckets child actor plays teenage Kanan Stark in Raising Kanan and in the Ghost-and-Tommy prequel?

Mekai Curtis played Kirby's best friend Fish for 59 episodes and voiced Zack in Milo Murphy's Law before landing the lead, and he was the first Raising Kanan actor confirmed to reprise his role in the next prequel.

Which actor, who started at nine and appeared in Orange Is the New Black, grew up on screen as Tariq in Power?

Michael Rainey Jr. started acting at nine, joined Power at 13 and co-founded a podcast company with co-star Gianni Paolo that is funded by Kenan Thompson's Artists For Artists.

Which rapper, one half of a famous duo with Davis MacLean's actor, played Davis's jailed brother Theo in Power Book II?

Redman's real-life partnership with the man who plays Davis runs from the album Blackout! to the film How High, and Theo was quietly recast with Jordan Mahome in season 3.

In Power Book II: Ghost, which college basketball star raised as Monet's nephew is really her hidden son with Mecca?

Zeke Cross is tutored by Tariq and has a secret relationship with Professor Carrie Milgram, and Mecca, once an associate of Felipe Lobos, surfaces in season 2 to claim him.

Which prep-school friend of Tariq, heir to a Wall Street hedge fund, becomes his business partner in Power Book II?

Brayden Weston met Tariq at Choate, roomed with him at university and later works at Weston Holdings, the family fund; Effie once blackmailed him into an introduction to his connect.

Which actor, Bobby Brown in BET's The New Edition Story, plays Tariq's ruthless rival Cane Tejada in Power Book II?

Woody McClain's Cane is Monet's eldest child, and he ends up in a relationship with Effie, Tariq's ex, after she is frozen out of Tariq's operation for turning on a friend.

In Power Book II, Tasha realises Tommy Egan is back when she spots which signature vehicle outside Monet's bar?

A blue Mustang is Tommy's calling card, and within hours Tommy, bent on punishing Tasha for pinning Ghost's murder on him, tells Tariq they stopped being family the night Ghost died.

Which old friend of Julio's becomes Tommy Egan's right hand in Force before dying in the Force season 1 finale?

Liliana runs into Tommy by chance in his new city and assumes he has come to kill her; after a fight they team up, and she is shot in the finale 'Family Business' as he trades JP for Vic Flynn.

Which Scottish actor, Chibs of Sons of Anarchy, plays Irish-mob-backed patriarch Walter Flynn in Power Book IV: Force?

Tommy Flanagan was born in Glasgow's Easterhouse and played Chibs for the whole run of Sons of Anarchy; his Walter Flynn heads the Irish mob family that Tommy Egan collides with in Chicago.

Which writer of Power's season 1 episode 'Who Are You?' created Raising Kanan and now runs the Ghost-and-Tommy prequel?

Sascha Penn wrote for Power from its first season, created Raising Kanan in 2021 and was handed the 18-episode prequel in 2025; he also co-wrote the riot film 1992.

Which planned Power Book V, following Rashad Tate's political rise, was cancelled by Starz in August 2022?

Influence would have followed Tate's second run for governor with Larenz Tate reprising the role, but Starz judged his story could continue inside Book II, where he teaches ethics at Tariq's university.

Which Power prequel, ordered by Starz for 18 episodes in 2025, follows young Ghost and Tommy in late-1990s New York?

Origins is billed by Starz as 'a fun, rambunctious exploration' of young men determined to become legends, and it doubles as a direct sequel to Raising Kanan; filming in New York wrapped in August 2026.

What nickname does Power give the season 1 assassin who hits Ghost's couriers and mistakenly shoots Tommy's girlfriend?

Pink Sneakers was hired from prison by Kanan, who then convinced Ghost that a trusted friend had ordered the hits; Dre later mortally wounds her, and her dying words point Ghost back at Kanan.

Which friend and protégé does Ghost kill in Power season 1 after Kanan convinces him the man ordered the courier hits?

Rolla led the RSK crew and was innocent; the assassin's dying confession in season 2 is what first turns Ghost's suspicion onto Kanan and sets up their basement fight.

Which son of Kanan Stark, Ghost's driver and Tasha's lover in Power, is killed by Kanan after refusing to shoot Ghost?

Shawn rejects Kanan as his dad moments before Kanan kills him in season 2; Sinqua Walls, who played him, had been Teen Wolf's Boyd and Once Upon a Time's Lancelot.

Which club waitress and petty thief does Tommy Egan strangle in Power season 3 after she orders a hit on Ghost?

Holly believed Ghost was already dead when Tommy, enraged, killed her; Lobos had earlier threatened to kill the couple and their dog unless Tommy killed Ghost.

In Power season 3, Ghost's bodyguard Dean, played by Australian Callan Mulvey, turns out to be which Serbian kingpin?

Milan saved Ghost from the hit ordered by Tommy's girlfriend only to enslave him, and Ghost and Tommy finally march him out of the club at gunpoint on the night the Bassett hotel deal is signed.

Which jailed mob capo, played by William Sadler, turns out to be the dad Tommy Egan was told had died in Power?

Tony Teresi later has the corrupt prosecutor killed in prison at Tommy's request, and his wife Connie is played by Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl; Tommy's mother Kate had always claimed the man was dead.

Which corrupt cop shoots Tariq's twin sister Raina in Power season 4 and then becomes Tariq's first kill?

Ray Ray was hunting Tariq as the witness to a home-invasion murder; Tommy, Ghost and Tasha arrive just as Tariq shoots him and help cover it up, and Tasha later claims the killing as her own.

Angela Valdes arrests Ghost at his club at the end of Power season 3 for murdering which FBI agent, her ex-boyfriend?

Greg Knox was really killed by his own task-force boss, and the fingerprints that damned Ghost came from a break-in at Greg's apartment hunting for a recording device; Angela's own testimony later freed him.

Which Lobos task-force boss in Power is secretly the cartel's mole and really killed the agent Ghost is charged with?

Mike Sandoval smuggled Lobos a phone in prison, planted evidence to frame Ghost, and once Angela exposed him as Greg's killer was arrested, then killed inside at Tommy's request.

Which Alias and Titanic actor plays Simon Stern, the mogul who seizes Ghost's club and later bankrolls Tasha in Power?

Victor Garber, Jack Bristow on Alias and the shipbuilder in Titanic, returned as Stern in Book II; Stern's loan lets him force Ghost into a property deal that legally requires a Black partner.

Which Compton rapper asked to play Laces, a drug-addicted hustler who works with Kanan, in Power season 5?

Kendrick Lamar told Starz that Laces was 'just a character that I know' from growing up in Compton, and the cameo landed in the same season that saw Kanan killed in a traffic stop.

Which Entourage alumnus, Turtle himself, played Joe Proctor, the lawyer Tommy kills after Tariq lets him in, in Power?

Jerry Ferrara's Proctor first got Tommy freed in season 2 by exposing Angela's prosecutorial misconduct, using evidence Ghost had stolen from her apartment.

Which Fast & Furious star, Han himself, played John Mak, the prosecutor on the murdered FBI agent's case in Power?

Sung Kang's Mak takes over the prosecution once Angela's colleague is found dead, and Kang later turned up as the Fifth Brother in Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Which Tony winner, Disney's voice of Tiana, played Kanan's cousin Jukebox, the corrupt cop who nurses him in Power?

Anika Noni Rose's Jukebox is a Washington DC officer whom Kanan himself kills when she pushes him to murder Tariq for ransom, and her teenage self is a lead in Raising Kanan.

Power's finale is titled 'Exactly How We Planned', which drops which single word from the title of the 2014 pilot?

Not Exactly How We Planned opened the series in June 2014, and Anthony Hemingway directed both that pilot and the finale that answered its title 63 episodes later.

Which Power season 6 episode, a Dr. Dre pun, marked 50 Cent's directing debut and restored the original theme song?

Forgot About Dre carries 50 Cent's directing credit under his real name, and the season later used a second Dre pun, 'Still DRE', as the title of its eleventh episode.

Which 50 Cent song featuring NLE Choppa and Rileyy Lanez serves as the opening theme of Power Book III: Raising Kanan?

Part of the Game came out as a single in 2020, a year before the prequel aired, and 50 Cent performs every opening theme in the franchise, including Force's 'Power Powder Respect'.

Which comedian played Croop, a hitman associated with Councilman Rashad Tate, in Power's final season?

Cedric the Entertainer's Croop is one of several comics Power cast straight, alongside Charlie Murphy as a violent prison guard in season 4 and Jesse Williams as Kadeem in season 6.

Which Everybody Hates Chris alumna plays Lauren Baldwin, the classmate who wears a wire on Tariq, in Power Book II?

Paige Hurd's Lauren is left for dead after Effie and two others conspire against her over the wire, then resurfaces in hiding; Hurd had played Tasha Clarkson on Everybody Hates Chris and Gayle Franklin in The Oval.