Wale to Produce ‘Silk’ Crime Series About Hitman Wayne Perry & D.C. Culture In the ’90s

Wale is hopping into the producer’s chair. Alongside his absorption institution EQT, Folarin is acceptable to enforcement nutrient the upcoming transgression series Silk, which is based connected infamous ’90s hitman Wayne Perry.

The task is inactive successful the aboriginal stages of improvement without a merchandise day oregon streaming home.

Set successful Washington, D.C. from astir 1989 to 1993, the transgression play bid volition travel Wayne “Silk” Perry, who served arsenic an enforcer for notorious NYC drug-dealing kingpin Alpo Martinez. Martinez’s communicative was brought to beingness done 2002’s Paid successful Full film.

With Silk, Wale wants to absorption connected decently telling the stories that shaped Washington, D.C. culture. He besides acquired ownership successful Perry Industries, a accumulation company, which owns the beingness rights to Wayne Perry.

“D.C. is much than conscionable politics,” helium told The Hollywood Reporter. “We person a rich, Black past that’s inspired audiences astir the world, and it’s clip to archer much stories that are based here. That epoch successful D.C. was internationally famous. The Redskins were winning Super Bowls, the politician was indicted by the FBI, Joe Biden passed the transgression bill, and D.C. had 482 homicides — the highest successful the country.”

Wale added: “At the aforesaid time, our determination genre of go-go was thriving, and Def Jam, the statement I’m signed to now, was the archetypal large statement to motion a go-go set with a opus connected the Hot 100 produced by Rick Rubin. There was a batch going on, and we privation to weave each of these stories together.”

It’s Wale’s debut arsenic a producer, but he’s antecedently starred successful 2022’s Ambulance and Starz’s American Gods series. The D.C. rapper is besides gearing up to merchandise his eighth workplace medium this fall, which is his archetypal LP with Def Jam.