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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fine-dining experience you might expect an Agnelli would prefer. The anointed heir to Italy's greatest industrial fortune is settling into his chair at Vittoria, a homespun Turin trattoria where plates clank every time the nearby kitchen door swings open. But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's €6 billion holding company, this is the perfect place for a power lunch. After ordering his favorite Vittoria dish - a lightly fried veal cutlet with fresh tomatoes - Elkann leans in to better explain his choice. "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...Clikkity clank…clikkity clank,” 50 Cent tauntingly raps on his new CD “The Massacre,” “the money goes into my piggy bank.” Truer words have never been spoken...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: What Up, Gangsta? | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

Even a child could see through the charade. Nervous after being outshined by the debut of his labelmate, The Game, 50 resorted to the tired gangsta rap formula of starting beef with another rapper (or three). Clikkity clank! And for good measure, on the eve of his album release, 50 Cent headed to New York City’s Hot 97 “urban” music station to air out more beef (or promote his album) by publicly excommunicating The Game from his G-Unit crew—calling him, amongst other things, a fake gangsta. Clikkity clank...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: What Up, Gangsta? | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...entourage, also in New York and taken by surprise by 50’s comments, made their way to Hot 97. At the door, a scuffle broke out between the rappers’ respective entourages, leaving one man shot and hip-hop with another black eye. Clikkity Clank...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: What Up, Gangsta? | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...Piggy Bank,” a gritty diss track with a sing-song hook, 50 flaunts his success: “Clickety clank, clickety clank, the money goes into my piggy bank.” After disparaging Fat Joe (“My shit sold 11 mil/His shit was a dud”) and Jadakiss (“Jada, don’t fuck wit me, if you wanna eat/’Cuz I’ll do yo little ass like Jay did Mobb Deep”), he challenges his enemies to “do something...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: 50 Cent | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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