{"id":2049793,"date":"2025-09-25T18:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2049793"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:46:19","slug":"rapper-wale-to-produce-movie-silk-about-1990s-hitman-wayne-perry-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rapper-wale-to-produce-movie-silk-about-1990s-hitman-wayne-perry-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Wale to Produce Movie \u2018Silk\u2019 About 1990s Hitman Wayne Perry (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grammy-nominated rapper Wale<\/a> is behind a new feature aiming to tell the story of a real-life notorious hitman.<\/p>\n

Wale and his management company Eqt are in early stages of development on Silk<\/a>, a movie centered on D.C.-based hitman Wayne \u201cSilk\u201d Perry and his involvement in the crime world in the early 1990s, The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has learned exclusively. A director has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

The film is set between 1989-1993, at a time when the nation\u2019s capital was known as the \u201cmurder capital.\u201d It will follow the story of Perry, who was the enforcer for New York City-based drug dealer Alpo Martinez.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Wale has acquired a stake in Perry Industries, a new D.C.-based production company that owns the life rights to Perry, who currently goes by the name Nkosi Shaka Zulu El. The rapper executive produces Silk alongside Kazz Laidlaw for Eqt and C. Edwards<\/a> for Perry Industries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grammy-nominated rapper Wale is behind a new feature aiming to tell the story of a real-life notorious hitman. Wale and his management company Eqt are in early stages of development on Silk, a movie centered on D.C.-based hitman Wayne \u201cSilk\u201d Perry and his involvement in the crime world in the early 1990s, The Hollywood Reporter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2049793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rapper-Wale-to-Produce-Movie-\u2018Silk-About-1990s-Hitman-Wayne.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}