50 Cent: Deathly Skinny?

50 cent has dropped over 50 pounds in just 9 weeks! The famous gangster rapper had weighed 214, and is now settled around 160 lbs.

Why?

50 is starring in a new movie "Things Fall Apart" where he plays a football star who is eventually diagnosed with cancer. He chose this role in tribute to a friend who had died of the disease which makes things more clear as to why he has gone to such extremes to embody this character.

Below is a photograph from day one of shooting the second half of "Things Fall Apart"

As expected, 50 Cent heard a lot jokes from his fellow G-Unit members Lloyd Banks, and Tony Yayo, but he told the press,

"I was so into what I was doing that I wasn't really concerned with that. I just kept looking at myself in the mirror feeling like I have to be smaller. I had to match."

Not to many details regarding the film have been released, but it has got to be good if the man himself is willing to sacrifice his Hip-Hop image for the sake of a good production.

I will definitely be in line to see this one when it drops.