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 contains never-before-seen video of Combs, recorded in early September 2024, discussing his authorized troubles. Jackson declined to say how he acquired the video.
Watch the interview with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson tonight on Prime Story on NBC Information Now.
In it, Combs seems to be in a resort room.
“Now we have to search out any individual 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 interact in prostitution. In October, he was sentenced to 50 months in jail.
Combs’ publicist stated in a press release that the video was by no means licensed for launch and that it contains non-public moments and “conversations involving authorized technique” from an unfinished challenge.
“The footage was created for a completely totally different objective, 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 exterior 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 attempting to use the video for leisure and stated Netflix’s use of it’s “reckless disregard, not journalism.”
Combs’ authorized crew 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 a press release from Stapleton.
“We moved heaven and earth to maintain the filmmaker’s id 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,” Stapleton stated. “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, instructed NBC Information final week why he needed to executive-produce the documentary.
“If I didn’t say something, you possibly can assume that each one of hip-hop tradition is snug 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 concerning the many years of pressure 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 finished 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 Ebook III: Elevating Kanan,” and Justin Combs was forged in “Energy Ebook II: Ghost” — TV exhibits produced by Jackson.
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” debuts Tuesday on Netflix.
