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50 Cent explains how he took over press duties on Righteous Kill after Robert De Niro and Al Pacino clashed over publicity "I was on Righteous Kill with De Niro and Pacino, and they had press and publicity to do." "Pacino wasn't doing much, and De Niro was like,...

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