It’s Really Happening: 50 Cent’s Documentary, “P Diddy: The Reckoning” Drops Dec. 2nd On Netflix
Hollywood Reporter - Netflix on Tuesday surprise-dropped the first trailer and an official premiere date for its hotly anticipated four-part docuseries on the rise and fall of Sean “Diddy” Combs, executive-produced by his longtime rap-world rival, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning will debut on the streamer Dec. 2, with all four episodes dropping at once. The series offers a career-spanning look at Combs’ ascent as one of hip-hop’s most influential power brokers and his subsequent downfall amid multiple allegations of sexual coercion, assault and rape. Combs has denied involvement in any alleged crimes of which he has been accused.
I want it on the record for 50 that no, I never thought he was "cappin" as the kids call it. I had faith all along. (As evidenced by this blog earlier in the year)
But I can't believe this is finally seeing the light of day. Not that I ever doubted Curtis Jackson- you'd have to be a fool to, but I thought we were looking at a Summer 2026 joint at best. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd get to watch this takedown around the holidays!
According to Netflix’s synopsis, Jackson and Emmy-winning filmmaker Alexandria Stapleton craft a sweeping portrait that charts not only Combs’ personal story but the broader rise of hip-hop itself — and the outsize imprint Combs left on the genre as it reshaped American culture in the 1990s.
“Diddy. Puff Daddy. Love. The public knows the hip-hop icon by many names — but who is the real Sean Combs?” the logline asks. “In a new four-part documentary by Emmy and Grammy Award–winning executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Emmy Award–winning director Alexandria Stapleton, Sean Combs: The Reckoning is a staggering examination of the media mogul, music legend and convicted offender.”
Born with a relentless drive for stardom and a sharp eye for talent, Combs rose rapidly through the music business with Bad Boy Entertainment, helping usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream and launching key acts including The Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Jodeci and Danity Kane
50 was what an exective board would call "an early adopter" of the P Diddy hate movement. He got in on the ground floor. He was talking LOTS of shit- very publicly- about Combs, far, far before it became apparent that his past was checkered beyond what anybody could have imagined.
Whether Jackson knew the details or not isn't known, but one can assume by the accusations and claims he was airing out about him- all the way back in 2006 he insinuated and alluded to Diddy have Notorious B.I.G. killed, doubling down and flat out accusing him of doing it in 2016, (and again in 2020), followed by accusations in 2017 by Jackson that Diddy was a homosexual, and again in 2018, and again in 2019, and all culminating in 50 Cent announcing he was producing this documentary as soon as the ink was dry on the settlement between Combs and his ex-girlfriend Cassie.
So think about that for a minute.
Well before this even culimanted in the Federal RICO case that it became, 50 started pouring millions of dollars and hours of time into producing a documentary he then titled, Diddy Do It?, which he sold to Netflix after a "massive bidding war". Though no official number has been reported, rumors are he made close to $200 million on the deal.
(Sidebar - he also didn't hold back in vocalizing the dozens of celebrities taking Diddy's side in trying to prevent him from producing the doc.)
This man gives zero fucks.
As we all know, shortly after that settlement was reached, the security cam video of Combs viciously beating Cassie in a hotel hallway coincidentally surfaced on CNN, and all hell broke loose.
Throughout the trial, 50 Cent was relentless in his mocking of Combs and in holding his feet to the fire. And he hasn't slowed down one bit.
As for what this Reckoning doc will show and tell remains to be seen. But I have a feeling that given how far out ahead of this whole thing Jackson has been- (he's been telling the world Combs is a bad apple for 20 years), and with how plugged in he is to the industry, I can see some bombshells dropping.
Add in the fact that he is extremely close with Ma$e (who he tried to sign in 2006 but was prevented by Combs), and how outspoken Ma$e has been about Combs, and I can see us getting some wild stories that have been previously untold.
December 2nd is going to make for some great documentary watching.