Pictures have emerged of 50 Cent after the rapper shed 54 pounds for his role in Things Fall Apart.

Scheduled for release next year, the film sees 50 – real name Curtis Jackson – cast as a terminally ill football player. To beef down for the role, Jackson subsisted on liquids and hit the treadmill for everyday three hour sessions for nine weeks [via Pedestrian]

Credit to 50 for launching himself into the role, we say. Now, if we were facetious we’d make a comment about how it would’ve been nice for him to put that much effort into Before I Self Destruct. But we’re not facetious. We’re FACT.