Rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who executive-produced an upcoming Netflix documentary about Sean “Diddy Combs, addressed his ongoing feud with the hip-hop mogul and the key video he obtained of Combs recorded days earlier than his arrest in 2024.
Jackson has been engaged on the documentary, titled “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” with director Alexandria Stapleton for over a 12 months.
The sequence consists of never-before-seen video of Combs, recorded in early September 2024, discussing his authorized troubles. Jackson declined to say how he bought the video.
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In it, Combs seems to be in a resort room.
“Now we have to search out someone that’ll work with us that has dealt within the dirtiest of soiled enterprise,” he says.
“We’re dropping,” he continues.
Six days after the video was recorded, Combs was arrested by federal brokers at a New York Metropolis resort and charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation for functions of prostitution.
In July, a jury acquitted him of racketeering and intercourse trafficking however convicted him on two lesser counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. In October, he was sentenced to 50 months in jail.
Combs’ publicist stated in an announcement that the video was by no means licensed for launch and that it consists of non-public moments and “conversations involving authorized technique” from an unfinished mission.
“The footage was created for a wholly completely different function, below an association that was by no means accomplished, and no rights have been ever transferred to Netflix,” Juda Engelmayer stated. “A cost dispute between outdoors events doesn’t create permission for Netflix to make use of unlicensed, non-public materials. None of this footage got here from Mr. Combs or his group, and its inclusion raises severe questions on the way it was obtained and why Netflix selected to make use of it.”
Engelmayer accused Jackson of making an attempt to use the video for leisure and stated Netflix’s use of it’s “reckless disregard, not journalism.”
Combs’ authorized group despatched Netflix a cease-and-desist letter Monday.
Netflix stated it obtained the video legally and has the required rights for it, directing NBC Information to an announcement from Stapleton.
“We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s identification confidential. One factor about Sean Combs is that he’s at all times filming himself, and it’s been an obsession all through the many years,” Stapleton stated. “We additionally reached out to Sean Combs’ authorized group for an interview and remark a number of instances, however didn’t hear again.”
Jackson, who has publicly feuded with Combs over time, instructed NBC Information final week why he wished to executive-produce the documentary.
“If I didn’t say something, you may assume that each one of hip-hop tradition is comfy together with his actions or what they’re depicting them as, the particular person he’s, as a result of nobody stated something,” he stated.
Requested in regards to the many years of rigidity with Combs, Jackson stated there isn’t any “beef” between them.
“Let’s cease for a second and do say that I hated him sufficient to rent his youngsters, and we’ve by no means performed something to one another, so it’s simply aggressive power and issues that you simply say about different artists when you’re in hip-hop tradition,” he stated.
Quincy Brown, Combs’ eldest son, appeared in “Energy E-book III: Elevating Kanan,” and Justin Combs was forged in “Energy E-book II: Ghost” — TV reveals produced by Jackson.
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” debuts Tuesday on Netflix.
