Netflix has set 2 December as the release date for Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a four-part documentary series that promises to chart the spectacular rise and accelerating fall of the hip-hop mogul once known as Puff Daddy and Diddy.
Directed by Alexandria Stapleton, the project arrives amid a cascade of sexual assault lawsuits, federal raids and criminal charges that have engulfed Combs since late 2023.
However, the loudest conversation online is not about the gravity of the allegations or the voices of the more than forty accusers expected to feature. It is about the man holding the purse strings: Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, Combs’s longtime antagonist and now executive producer of the series he once vowed to bring to screen.
The rivalry between the two New York rappers stretches back two decades, rooted in bruised egos, blocked business deals and clashing visions of hip-hop empire.
What began as industry friction calcified into a public feud that 50 Cent sustained with relentless social media mockery long before any lawsuits surfaced. When allegations against Combs began to mount, 50 Cent’s posts shifted from jokes to pointed accusations, often accompanied by screenshots of legal filings.
News of his formal involvement in the Netflix project detonated across platforms. “Generational hate just went platinum,” one widely shared post declared. Another simply read: “50 waited twenty years and then narrated the obituary.”
Netflix has released only a brief teaser, heavy on courtroom footage and blurred faces, but the marketing hardly matters. The mere optics of one superstar orchestrating a forensic examination of another’s downfall have guaranteed attention.
There are levels to this beef…
