Floyd Mayweather usually doesn't miss a good promotional opportunity. The boxer's return to the ring is set for May 5 against Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas, so he took to the streets of Indianapolis during the early hours of Saturday morning.

With friend and rapper 50 Cent in tow, Mayweather rode around the site of Super Bowl XLVI in a "Mayweather Promotions" bus and acknowledged fans, while causing quite a reported traffic backup. Wearing a bright red jacket that said "Money Team" on the back, Mayweather interacted with some of the fans. 50 Cent even reportedly signed some autographs.

Mayweather's fight with Cotto was officially announced Wednesday after the Grand Rapids boxer was granted a one-fight license from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Mayweather had to go before the NSAC to answer questions about his recent guilty plea in a domestic incident. He is scheduled to begin serving an 87-day jail sentence June 1.

Mayweather-Cotto will be for Cotto's World Boxing Association super welterweight title (154 pounds). Mayweather has fought only once at that weight, when he weighed 150 in defeating Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.

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Yahoo! will stream LIVE performances from 50 Cent and Lil Jon from a special concert taking place for Super Bowl Weekend this Saturday, February 4th. The live broadcast begins on omg! from Yahoo! at 9:00 p.m. CST/10:00 p.m. EST. They have a special page set up here.

Beginning Thursday, Feb. 2, Bud Light will transform a 180-room downtown Indianapolis hotel (105 S. Meridian Street) into the premier destination for Super Bowl week entertainment. In addition to hosting exclusive parties from EA SPORTS and Playboy, the Bud Light Hotel will host a special concert Saturday night featuring 50 Cent, and Lil Jon.

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Why 50 Cent does half the crap he does, we'll never know. But what we do know is that the rapper has some sort of deep seeded need to flash his goods around, and we're not talking about iced-out chains or two or three well-rhyming sentences. We're talking about his goods, goods – mmmmmhm.

50 recently agreed to an online bet, via Twitter, in which he'll tweet a pic of his penis if the New York Giants lose to the New England Patriots on Super Bowl Sunday.

The bet was initiated by a female user that goes by MyBestAssets. She tweeted him: "Lets bet. If the Giants lose the Super Bowl, you must post your d*** on the Twitter. If they win, I'll post my boobs and face on here. Bet?" To which he simply replied "OK."

So wait, maybe it's this MyBestAssets who has some sort of deep seeded need to flash her goods. Cause, come on, there's no way the G-Men are falling to the Brady Bunch.

Oh and this isn't 50's only game-day bet. Supposedly him and Birdman have $5 million each at stake.  It started when he boasted about winning $500,000 after betting his team would beat the San Francisco 49ers.

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A recent 50 Cent bet on an NFL football game seems to have paid handsomely for the rap star. 50, real name Curtis Jackson, claims to have won $500,000 on the recently NFL playoffs game involving the New York Giants.

With Baby's Super Bowl bet the talk of Twitter and the rap world, don't let it overshadow 50 Cent's claims of actually winning his wager. Apparently, the rapper won a half a million by betting on the Giants against the San Francisco 49ers. The game saw New York as underdogs in Sunday's NFC Championship game, but they emerged victorious in overtime with a field goal.

According to his Twitter and other reports, 50 Cent put out several tweets on Twitter about the big win, saying: "Just watched a 500,000 dollar foot ball game get on my level."Besides claiming "voices" sometimes tell him what to do for betting, 50 showed his generous side too. The multimillion dollar rapper, actor, and entrepreneur said he's going to give his winnings away to his nana. 50 tweeted:

"I'm giving this money to my nana she gonna faint LMAO all she do is go to the church."Definitely noble of the rap star to give away his winnings. Meanwhile, there's no reports on whether or not 50 Cent will look to make another big bet, on the Super Bowl game. He does have an offer on the table should he decide to accept, with the recent tweet by rap star Birdman, claiming he'll put $5 million on the Patriots. Does 50 like the Giants enough to take him up on it?

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With the 50 Cent media machine in full force recently, you would be forgiven for overlooking the fact that the G-Unit honcho has not released an album since 2009, keeping him out of the limelight in a musical sense for quite a deal longer than his spotlight craving persona would like. However, true to form, 50 has spoken to Forbes magazine in recent days, stating he would like to release his next two albums in quick succession this year.

“This time I’m not sure I’ll tour the world like I did on my last project because it makes my album cycles two years long,” he said. “I think I’d like to launch this record and come back and launch another record following it because it’s been three years since my last album, so I’ve recorded so much material that I’m really excited about trying to get those ideas to the public so they get a chance to hear it and appreciate it.”

With the likes of Rihanna dropping an album a year for the last 6 years, 50 has admitted that he may be moving a little slow for today’s fans, who are used to instantaneous music and not partial to a wait of any sort.

“I kinda think you have to keep the audience engaged a little more [these days],” he said. “There’s a lot of new material that comes out. But it’s not from established artists.”Until the release of these albums, fans have got to make do with “The Big Ten” which 50 dropped last month.

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50 Cent may be fighting with his record label to release his oft-delayed fifth studio album, but that hasn't stopped the G-Unit general from planning for his sixth LP. Still no word when G-Unit and Interscope will release Fif's next album, but when they do, the get Rich or Die Tryin' MC wants to hit the shelves again instead of hitting the road.

"This time I'm not sure if I'll tour the world like I did on my last project, 'cause it makes my album cycle two years long," 50 told Forbes in a video interview. "So I think I'd like to launch this record and come right back and launch another record following it."

Releasing this fifth album has been a constant battle for 50. The rapper blasted Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre last summer, but later calmed his angst and made peace. Earlier this month, 50 took to Twitter and once gain blasted Interscope after a song slated for his album leaked onto the Internet. "I have lost all faith in the team I'm on," he wrote. A few days later he backed down. "Discovered a computer glitch leaked my song," 50 tweeted on January 8. "Sorry to team at Interscope for over reacting!"

Whatever the holdup, there has been a noticeable gap between Fif's retail releases. His last album, Before I Self Destruct, hit shelves in November 2009 and the Queens MC has amassed so many songs since then that he has enough for two projects. "It's been three years since my last album, so I've recorded so much material that I'm really excited about trying to get those ideas to the general public so they get a chance to hear it and appreciate it," he said.

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Even though he's had trouble dropping even one album as of late, it appears 50 Cent has plans to drop two. In an interview with Forbes, Fif explained that he's recorded a significant amount of material in recent time. "This time I'm not sure I'll tour the world like I did on my last project because it makes my album cycles two years long. I think I'd like to launch this record and come back and launch another record following it because it's been three years since my last album, so I've recorded so much material that I'm really excited about trying to get those ideas to the...public so they get a chance to hear it and appreciate it."

"I kinda think you have to keep the audience engaged a little more [these days]," added 50. "There's a lot of new material that comes out. But it's not from established artists.""I just felt like because I created so much, I wanted to get it out to them. I'm always excited about the newest idea for myself."

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Skeptical that it’s possible to lose a lot of weight in a short time by using a treadmill and eating less?

Grammy award-winning rapper 50 Cent recently lost fifty-four lbs. in nine weeks by dieting and using a treadmill! Apparently, 50 Cent (real name: Curtis James Jackson III) takes his “method acting” seriously In preparation for an upcoming role as a football player with cancer in the upcoming move, Things Fall Apart, 50 Cent dropped from 214 to 160 lbs. The 33-year-old accomplished this with a liquid-only diet and by walking on treadmill for three hours per day.

50 Cent Loses 44 lbs
Never heard of 50 Cent? Known as “Fiddy” to his friends, 50 Cent has amassed an estimated fortune of more than $440 million from his music sales and acting. He made his film debut in 1995 in the semi-autobiographical Get Rich or Die Tryin. His recent films include The Ski Mask Way (2010), Twelve (2010), Jekyll and Hyde (2010), Morning Glory (2010), and Gun (2011). But that was only after his phenomenal music success. He was named the sixth best artist of the decade by Billboard Magazine. Some call his music hip hop and others call it rap. Whatever, it is, it has an awful lot of energy.

Fiddy will need to continue the kind of treadmill energy he displayed in order to keep up that kind of schedule. Another movie on the way is Microwave Park, in which Fiddy plays a New Orleans Police officer after Hurricane Katrina. The film also stars Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone.

Fiddy has shown off his muscular physique in music videos and on stage. Apparently, is used to gaining and losing weight at will, but he says that “This time, it was a lot tougher for me.” He got stuck at about 198 lbs. and has been quoted as saying “Towards the end it was really difficult.” “I was starving,’ he said, adding that now he is back on tour and that ‘I’ve been eating. I’ll be back in shape in no time!’

50 Cent is an extreme example of weight loss, but it shows what can be accomplished with motivation and hard work. Don’t want to work that hard? Notice that Fiddy is gaining the weight back! Wouldn’t it be better to keep the weight off?

Slow and steady does it. You don’t need to go on an all-liquid diet. You don’t need to be an actor, a rapper, or any kind of star. You just need to use the treadmill for half an hour per day, but do it every day! Set aside a time for your star time. You can be a star to yourself and those around you by getting in shape and being the best you can be.

If you need more motivation, turn up the music, get on the treadmill, sing along, and sing loud. Get involved with the music. Not because you want to be a celebrity like someone else, but because you are you, and you are getting better all the time.

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Just in case you didn’t already know….50 Cent is rich. Mega rich. So rich, in fact, that he likes to show it off from time to time. While in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show to promote his new headphones, 50 Cent also posted a series of pictures of himself with his good friend, boxer Floyd Mayweather, posing with wads and wads (and more wads) of cash in his hotel room.

“I was thinking I could make a lot of money one day. Then I got mad cause some chumps was hatin on me,” 50 tweeted. “So I joined a gang lol THE MONEY TEAM my home boy got some hands and I got da heat. Lol,” 50 said, in reference to his pal ‘Money Mayweather.’

“We made it mom top of the world!!!!.( James cagney voice) lol,” read another tweet from the rapper, who is worth a reported $250 million. Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time 50 Cent has tastelessly flaunted his wealth on Twitter. Back in November 2010, the rapper posted pictures of himself playing around with $500,000 worth of cash money. We get it 50, you’re rich! No need to show it off.

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50 Cent's branding empire already includes energy shots, cologne and books, but his latest products are all about the music. The rapper was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week to promote his new line of headphones: the wireless Sync by 50, the wired Street by 50 and the soon-to-be-released Street by 50 wired ear buds. The audio products, he told The Times during an interview at the Las Vegas Convention Center, are "an extension of my passion for music."

"I'll spend 30 or 40 minutes when I'm really inspired and have an idea, and the song will be done. And then we'll spend a week making sure it sounds right afterwards," he said. "Then to have it go out to the general public and them listen to it on things that don't actually allow them to hear it with the same qualities –- not so cool. So I want to try to be a part of [how] they consume it the right way. And maybe they'll feel like I'm as good as I think I am, when they hear it that way." Both headphones are already available in stores and online after a soft launch during the holiday season.

The $400 Sync by 50, which 50 Cent was wearing around his neck during our interview as "a fashion statement," promises to give users "crystal-clear wireless sound" up to 50 feet away and the ability to sync as many as four pairs of headphones to a single audio source. The headphones are professionally tuned and feature 40-mm drivers, 16-bit lossless digital sound and on-board controls with bass boost, volume control and mute.

The Street by 50 headphones are priced at $300 and feature professional studio sound, enhanced bass, soft memory foam cushions, passive noise cancellation and a detachable cord. The ear buds, expected to be launched later this year, have a professionally tuned 11-mm driver and an ergonomically designed Apple control mic with volume control and reinforced cables. The wires on the ear buds are flat, which 50 Cent said prevented tangling. They are expected to cost $130.

The products are made by 50 Cent's SMS Audio; he created the company and is its chief executive. Down the line, he said, SMS Audio will expand its offerings to include home audio systems, professional audio equipment, speakers, iPod docks and DJ headsets.

"I love music," he said. "Why would I not want to make the best possible way to hear it?"

The celebrity headphone market has taken off in recent years, led by the Beats by Dr. Dre line. Dr. Dre was in Las Vegas for CES, as were Ludacris and "Jersey Shore" star Snooki -- both of them hyping headphones. 50 Cent signed autographs for fans Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at CES and said he was excited to check out the latest technology at the trade show.

"My girlfriend, in my office, she's a massage chair. She doesn't talk much, she just works," he said. "And I'm interested to go see what the new version of that does."

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