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50 Cent Gets Kids Fit

If there is one man out there in the entertainment industry that is as hot as he is intimidating it is rapper 50 Cent. The formidable entertainment bigshot started out small and almost got murdered along the way. But he pushed forward and today is one of the top selling artists in the music biz. So what`s 50 Cent`s newest project? Would you believe helping kids in America get fit? 50 Cent is on a mission to get America?s chubby kids fit and healthy, by helping them change their eating habits.

The beef cake ?In Da Club? rapper has joined up with fitness expert Jorge Cruise to offer a $100,000 scholarship to students who submit healthy recipes to their Free Lunch Money website this month. Fiddy says he eats healthily to be a good role model for his son and always makes sure the refrigerator is loaded with nutritional snacks. "I just change the things that are available for him in the house. It`s more vitamin water than cans of soda," he says. "He just gets accustomed to it because of my habits."

50 Cent and Cruise will sample the recipes sent in by high school kids and give their student who creates the most yummy healthy cafeteria lunch menu the scholarship. This follows 50 Cent`s previous initiative of teaching kids how to get shot, never stop mentioning the fact you were shot, and create a rap career outta the hype of getting shot.