P. Frank Williams tells HipHopStories about his latest project.

Emmy Award winning P. Frank Williams is a TV/Film producer, writer, journalist, author and commentator.  Over the past two decades, he’s worked in newspapers, magazines, TV, film and even wrote and co-produced the big budget video game 25 To Life, produced by Eidos. He is a producer for BET’s award winning documentary series American Gangster and TV One's acclaimed Unsung documentary series. He recently won a 2008 NAACP Image Award for co-producing BET's Celebration of Gospel.

His TV writing/producing credits include the 2010 BET Honors on BET, 2010 BET Awards on BET, 2009 NAACP Image Awards on FOX and the 2005 Hip Hop Honors on VH1. He also served on NBC’s Emmy winning writing team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Williams was a writer for Pat O’ Brien’s late night show on NBC.


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Williams was formerly Executive Editor of The Source magazine, where he interviewed and profiled the likes of Ice Cube, Spike Lee, Snoop, Lauryn Hill and many more. He conducted an infamous jailhouse interview with controversial record executive Suge Knight and wrote profiles on hip hop culture in Europe and Africa. In the mid 1990’s, Williams served as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where he covered the police beat, pop culture and Generation X. While at the paper he interviewed Bono, P. Diddy, ex-LA mayor Richard Riordan and others. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter at New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle.

HipHopStories.net spoke with P. Frank Williams just before he hit  ATL. for the BET Hip Hop Awards.  P. Frank told us about his company, Prophet From It Entertainment, and his latest project with Young Jeezy.