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After releasing his “Before I Self-Destruct” album and going on a massive world tour, 50 Cent traded his mic for a script for the new movie “Twelve,” due in theaters this Friday (Aug. 6).

The Joel Schumacher-directed drama, in which the rapper plays a ruthless drug supplier opposite Chace Crawford and Emma Roberts, is one of multiple film projects he’s lined up over the next year to establish himself as.

An acting force.“[Working in film] came down to the actual timing,” 50 tells Billboard.com, adding that he was offered a role in the Sylvester Stallone-directed action flick.

The Expendables” but had to turn it down to focus on promoting his last album. For “Twelve,” however, a little downtime in his schedule coincided with a juicy dramatic role and the chance to work with Schumacher (‘Batman Forever,” “Phone Booth”).

Rap superstar 50 CENT has thrown his support behind the Shannon Tavarez cause by registering as a bone marrow donor and wants other to follow in his footsteps, too. Contactmusic reports that the rapper and his G-Unit bandmate Tony Yayo have recently registered with DKMS.

Earlier, Alicia Keys and Rihanna had done the same, too, after hearing the plight of the 11-year-old Tavarez, the young Broadway star who played the little Nala in the Broadway musical The Lion King and who is now suffering from leukemia and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant to survive.

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50 Cent has encouraged fans to register as bone marrow donors after he heard about 11-year-old Broadway actress Shannon Tavarez, who is suffering from leukaemia.

Tavarez, who starred as Nala in musical The Lion King, was diagnosed with the disease in April and needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. The young star's condition reportedly prompted the rapper to register with DKMS, the world's largest marrow donor centre.

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Rappers 50 Cent and Tony Yayo have registered as bone marrow donors in hopes of helping a young actress diagnosed with leukemia.

According to Yahoo Music News, the rappers made the decision to register with DKMS and become a part of the Be The Match Registry when 50 learned that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez needed a bone marrow transplant.

Before being diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, Tavarez had a co-starring role as a young Nala in the Broadway production of The Lion King.

The story hit home to 50, who has a child of his own. "My son is just a couple years older than Shannon and I can't imagine if his life was needlessly cut short when there is someone out there that could save him," said the Queens rapper in a statement.

"Shannon's chances of finding a matching donor are slim because she's African American and Dominican and minorities are underrepresented in the national registry," he added. "Everyone, regardless of their race or ethnicity deserves a fair chance at life. Registering to become a bone marrow donor starts with a cheek swab but it's more than that. It's a commitment to save a life."

To sign up as a bone marrow donor, visit GetSwabbed.org. Registrants must be between the ages of 18 and 55, and be in good health. Below is footage of 50 Cent getting swabbed to be a part of the registry, followed by a video about Shannon Tavarez.

50 Cent has regained almost all the weight he lost for a film role. The In Da Club rapper, who shed an enormous amount of weight in just nine weeks for his part.

in Things Fall Apart, has found it easy to put the weight back on and has been gorging himself on high calorie foods.

"It's the art of eating. The no complex route. It seems everything that is fun is no good for you. I had different things I don't usually have in my diet to put the weight back," he explained.

"I'm now 210lbs. I was a little fat boy, but I'm back at the gym. At my maximum weight I was 214." In the movie, 50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson - plays an American football player diagnosed with cancer and he slashed his weight from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for the role.

Shocking pictures posted on his website were captioned with the details of his weight loss. The caption read: "50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie Things Fall Apart. In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.

The Candy Shop hitmaker can't wait until the movie comes out because he thinks his performance is fantastic. "I think the film project is going to be great, not just the transformation and the weight loss but my performance in itself. I'm excited to see it," he said.

That 50 Cent never ceases to amaze. First the rapper dropped from 214 pounds to a shocking 160 to play a cancer-stricken football player in his self-penned flick Things Fall Apart, and now tells.

Us he gave it all back by eating up a storm! But that's not all he's doing. Besides just finishing a tour and recording his next album.

He also just filmed a PSA urging fans to donate to Leukemia Foundation DKMS and registered last week to donate his own bone marrow.

If it matches up, the likely benefactor will be Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old star of Disney's The Lion King on Broadway.

Who was diagnosed with the debilitating disease last April (visit getswabbed.org to see the clip and find out how to help).

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Two movie premieres in one week were too much for 50 Cent. The rapper-turned-actor attended premieres in New York for "Twelve" on Wednesday night and "Gun" last Friday. But by the time he hit the latter event, he'd already forgotten crucial information about the first - such as the name of his director, Joel Schumacher.

"I've always surrounded myself with great directors like Jim Sheridan, Irwin Winkler, Jon Avnet," 50 Cent told us before drawing a blank. "Why can't I think of their names?" he wondered aloud, after failing to jar Schumacher's name from his memory.

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50 Cent and Chace Crawford turned up late for the premiere of their new movie after the route to the venue was blocked by President Barack Obama’s motorcade. The rapper/actor and the Gossip Girl star were both due to walk the red carpet in New York City for the launch of their film, Twelve, but fans were left waiting after the cast got stuck in traffic as police shut off the surrounding streets to make way for the president.

When he finally made it to the cinema, 50 Cent explained his tardiness to reporters, saying, “It’s interesting – the streets are blocked off for a few avenues. We had to go all the way around to get here, but he’s the president.” While Crawford joked.

We shut down the street for the premiere and for me. I didn’t want any traffic on Houston (Street) and then Obama just swooped in – figures! I mean, I called and invited him and texted him and he didn’t want to come. It’s just a mess!”

Lenny Kravitz’s actress daughter Zoe admits she became so frustrated with the delays, she almost got out of her limousine and took the subway to the premiere. She says, “We were in traffic for the longest time and I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ I almost got out and took the subway, and the only reason I didn’t was because it was so hot…”

A healthier-looking 50 Cent has stepped out in New York this week, the Huffington Post reports. Earlier this year he shocked fans.

After dramatically losing 54lbs in nine weeks and uploading pics of his gaunt face and body on Twitter.

He has since revealed that his sudden resemblance to a skeleton was due to a drastic slimming program he underwent.

The 35-year-old subsisted on a liquid diet, working out three hours a day, for a role as a cancer patient in the move Things Fall Apart, which he co-wrote.

Appearing on The View this week, 50 Cent said he had a clear recollection of his first normal meal.

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Much was made about 50 Cent's dramatic weight loss earlier this year for an acting role that required the muscle-bound rap star to lose more than 50 pounds.

But there's been little information about how the fit G-Unit head managed to put the weight back on. Fif sat down with the women of "The View" on Tuesday and revealed to the hosts what his very first meal was post-production.

"I remember specifically what the first thing was, because I was starving," he laughed. "I had a steak. It was 12 ounces, but I got about four ounces in before I started getting sleepy."

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