Hip Hop legend Eric B. made the jump from artist to actor in 2019 when he landed a role in the CBS crime drama Blue Bloods. Now, he’s wading even deeper into the television waters with his own show called Harlem World.

Named after the famed New York City nightclub, the series is a period piece that travels from the 1970s to the turn of the 20th century as it explores the evolution of the Harlem drug game and struggle for power. Although the series is fictionalized, it’s based on actual events that happened in Harlem when drugs such as heroin, dust, coke and crack ruled the streets.

“It’s about the New York City drug trade,” Eric B. tells HipHopDX. “The Italians had all the drugs. What happened was back in the mid to late ’80s, the Colombians came in, and they had more drugs than everybody and wound up taking the Italians out of play. And before crack, there was a thing called Bazooka — that was the first kind of crack. You gotta be from the streets of New York City to understand. It was the first version of crack.

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