Power Book III: Raising KananSeason 4 Is Coming — and the Past Is Catching Up with Kanan (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Months after leaving fans shocked with a stunning cliffhanger,Power Book III: Raising Kananis finally making its return.

PEOPLE can exclusively confirm that season 4 of thePowerprequel series will premiere this winter, and in the first teaser for the new season, the past is coming back to haunt Kanan and his family.

“Before you can figure out where you’re going, you’ve gotta look back at where you’ve been,“50 Centsays in a voiceover as the teaser begins with Kanan (MeKai Curtis) holding up a gun to someone while Raq (Patina Miller) is engaged in some secret agreement with the police.

“There’s things that happen that seem like they didn’t mean nothing at the time,” 50 Cent’s voiceover continues, and Unique is seen again, guns blazing, before Kanan beats up a janitor.

One of the teaser’s final scenes shows Marvin handing his daughter Jukebox (Hailey Kilgore) a gun, which she then raises at someone. The teaser concludes with a solo shot of Kanan, as 50 Cent says, “And then, you realize they mean everything.”

Malcolm Mays and Patina Miller in ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season 4.Starz

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Penn described season 3 as “a bridge in a way between Kanan as a kid, Kanan as a young adult, where he’s finally said, you know, enough is enough. I’m going to be my own man.”

The season 3 finale — which not only saw Unique miraculously come back to life but also featured two shocking deaths — was “yet another building block” in Kanan’s story, Penn said.

Kanan killed Unique’s brother, Ronnie (Grantham Coleman), while Raq killed Kanan’s father, Howard (Omar Epps), and the shockwaves of that will be something that plays out in season 4.

“I think the important piece of Howard’s death, on some level, is once again, how it impacts the relationship between Raq and Kanan.”

London Brown as Marvin Thomas in ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season 4.Starz

“There’s a portion of season 4 that actually explains how Unique survived and helps the audience to understand that journey as well. Because we felt strongly that we didn’t just want this to be some sort of bulls—Deus Ex Machinatype thing where miraculously he survives and we never understand how it happened.”

MeKai Curtis in ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ season 4.Starz

As for how the actor himself was feeling about returning, Bada$$ told PEOPLE following the season 3 finale thathe has a “newfound confidence” after seeing fans' disappointment at his initial death.

“I feel like it made everybody kind of just feel the impact of this character. Because they say that people don’t appreciate you until you’re gone — and now that I didn’t feel like people appreciated Unique – but seeing the idea of him being gone and seeing how many people responded to that was definitely an eye opener.”

The rapper also teased an “incredible” season 4, as he said, “The Unique that everybody knows is dead.”

“It’s going to be an interesting spin on who this character [is, because Unique] has been, historically, somebody who’s more calculated and smooth with his delivery and kind of conscious and things like that. But I think this Unique is different,” he said. “This is Unique like you’ve never seen him before.”

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Season 4 ofPower Book III: Raising Kananpremieres this winter, and seasons 1-3 are now streaming on Starz.

source: people.com