50 Cent almost shed fifty pounds.

The rapper responded on Wednesday on Instagram to reports that he used Ozempic to help him lose weight.

50 gets straight to the point in the grainy video, which looks to have been shot in a car’s rear seat, and denies using the well-known Type 2 diabetes medication to lose weight.

Do you want to discuss losing weight? “I was working the f–k out, man, in the gym,” the musician—real name Curtis Jackson—stated. And it’s Ozempic, they say? Running, running, running—I was getting things done. You witnessed my tour.

He continued by saying that he used to weigh 253 pounds but is now only 210.

The musician has reportedly spent the last eight months undergoing a “rigorous” training regimen, according to Page Six. Before he began his Final Lap Tour last summer, he worked out “three hours a day, every day” to get into peak condition.

The “In da Club” rapper gained notoriety the previous year when he was subjected to body shaming by detractors following his appearance with Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar at the Super Bowl LVI halftime performance.

Through X, a troll tweeted, “50 cent got fat now he a dollar” (previously Twitter).

“50 Cent out here looking like a FAT BAT,” a second person said.

But 50 Cent didn’t seem to mind at all.

They’re just making fun of me since they know I can lose the weight, which is why I call this taunting. that’s why I laugh with them,” he said on Instagram following the major performance. “Fat shaming is only relevant if you feel ashamed of your weight.”

Despite 50 Cent’s insistence that he is not on Ozempic, a number of other celebrities—including Amy Schumer, Tracy Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and Housewives Heather Gay, Emily Simpson, and Dolores Catania—have acknowledged having used the drug.

Oprah Winfrey said to People in December 2023 that she takes a weight-loss medication “as a tool to manage not yo-yoing,” though she did not specify which one.