50 Cent is looking more like 25 Cent these days. The usually buff rapper shed 54 pounds for his upcoming film Things Fall Apart, in which he plays a football player diagnosed with cancer. Fiddy brought his weight down to 160 pounds from his original 214 by going on a liquid diet and walking three hours a day on the treadmill for nine weeks.

“I was starving,” says the hip-hop mogul, who launches his “Invitation” tour in Cleveland this Friday. “I’ve been eating. I’ll be back in shape in no time!”