Overview

• Wale will executive produce alongside Kazz Laidlaw of EQT and C. Edwards of Perry Industries.
• He has taken an ownership stake in Perry Industries, which controls Wayne Perry’s life rights.
• Set between 1989 and 1993, the series tracks Perry’s work as an enforcer for New York dealer Alpo Martinez in Washington, D.C.
• Perry, now known as Nkosi Shaka Zulu El, was convicted in 1994 of multiple murders and is serving five life sentences at ADX Florence.
• Producers say the drama will weave in the era’s D.C. context, including soaring homicides, political scandal and the go-go music scene.