Better late than never.
That's the moral of the story behind rapper Petey Pablo landing a cameo role in an episode of Empire. Pablo told Raleigh, N.C.'s WRAL that it was payback for a small loan of sorts that he gave Terrence Howard way back when.
Pablo said that he and Howard bumped into each other at a premiere party back in 2005 for Howard's film Hustle & Flow. Howard had lost his wallet, and Pablo gave him $200 to make it through the night. Pablo never did see Howard again, or hear about his $200, until this year, when Howard called and offered to repay him—but in a big way.
Pablo said not only did Howard get him the role of one of Lucious Lyon's jail mates in prison, but Pablo also wrote the "Snitch Bitch" song that Howard, as Lucious, rapped on Empire, as well as four other songs for Lucious—television work totaling $15,000.
If this isn't an example of how, when you do good for people, it comes back tenfold, then I don't know what is.
For more of black Twitter, check out The Chatterati on The Root and follow The Chatterati on Twitter.
Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele is a staff writer at The Root and the founder and executive producer of Lectures to Beats, a Web series that features video interviews with scarily insightful people. Follow Lectures to Beats on Facebook and Twitter.