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 footage he obtained of Combs filmed 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 yr.
The sequence consists of never-before-seen footage of Combs, filmed in early September 2024, discussing his authorized troubles. Jackson declined to say how he received the footage.
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In it, Combs seems to be in a lodge room.
“We have now to seek 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 footage was filmed, Combs was arrested by federal brokers at a New York Metropolis lodge 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 interact in prostitution. In October, he was sentenced to 50 months in jail.
In a press release to NBC Information, Combs’ publicist mentioned the footage was by no means licensed for launch and consists of non-public moments and “conversations involving authorized technique” from an unfinished challenge.
“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 mentioned. “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 crew, 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 footage for leisure and mentioned Netflix’s use of it’s “reckless disregard, not journalism.”
Combs’ authorized crew despatched Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Monday.
Netflix mentioned it legally obtained the footage and has the mandatory rights for it, directing NBC Information to a press release from Stapleton.
“We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s identification confidential. One factor about Sean Combs is that he’s all the time filming himself, and it’s been an obsession all through the many years,” the director mentioned. “We additionally reached out to Sean Combs’ authorized crew for an interview and remark a number of occasions, however didn’t hear again.”
Jackson, who has publicly feuded with Combs over time, informed NBC Information final week in an interview why he needed to executive-produce the documentary.
“If I didn’t say something, you would assume that every one of hip hop tradition is comfy along with his actions or what they’re depicting them as, the particular person he’s, as a result of nobody mentioned something,” he mentioned.
When requested concerning the decades-long pressure with the hip-hop mogul, Jackson mentioned there isn’t a “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 completed something to one another, so it’s simply aggressive vitality and issues that you simply say about different artists when you’re in hip hop tradition,” he defined.
Quincy Brown, Combs’ eldest son, appeared in “Energy Ebook III: Elevating Kanan,” and Justin Combs was forged in “Energy Ebook II: Ghost” — TV reveals produced by Jackson.
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” debuts on Netflix on Tuesday.
