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It’s not unusual for celebrities who have ongoing feuds with each other to make those feuds very public in the form of social media rants or even diss tracks (if they’re musicians). But 50 Cent took it a step further and produced a whole Netflix docuseries about his nemesis, Sean “Diddy” Combs. When the rapper initially teased the project, a lot of people assumed he was joking.
After all, he regularly takes to social media to mock Diddy, and producing an actual documentary takes a lot of commitment. But now, the project actually has a release date, and people are realizing that 50 Cent’s pettiness is actually next level.
Honestly, the level of effort is pretty impressive.
The drama between Diddy and 50 Cent goes way back. In 2006, 50 Cent released a diss track about Diddy called “The Bomb.” In 2018, during an appearance on The Breakfast Club, Diddy joked, “Y’all can’t see that he loves me? You really think that’s hate?” He also jokingly begged 50 Cent to be his friend. “Yo, 50 please be my friend,” he said. “50, you’re breaking my heart. Curtis, please be my friend. Please.”
And when accusations against Diddy came to light, 50 Cent mocked him on social media and criticized him during interviews. When he said he was working on a documentary, people didn’t really believe him. But now, Sean Combs: The Reckoning is set to drop on Netflix on December 2, and 50 Cent is one of the executive producers.
On November 25, the rapper shared a flyer for the documentary via Instagram and captioned it with, “They said I was capping, 🤷 what happened?”
People were both surprised and impressed. “There’s petty, and then there’s 50 cent 😭” one person commented on the post. Another person added, “The way I had to check Netflix to confirm.”
Reacting to a teaser shared via Instagram, someone else said, “50 really put out a WHOLE A– DOCUMENTARY on that man. Lord let me never have anyone hate me the way 50 hates Diddy.” Others called 50 Cent “messy” because “he actually did it.”
According to Netflix, the documentary is a “staggering examination of the media mogul.”
It promises “explosive, never-before-seen materials” and “exclusive interviews.” The documentary is not just about his career, nor is it just about the allegations against him. As director Alexandria Stapleton describes it, “This isn’t just about the story of Sean Combs or the story of Cassie, or the story of any of the victims, or the allegations against him, or the trial. Ultimately, this story is a mirror [reflecting us] as the public, and what we are saying when we put our celebrities on such a high pedestal. I hope [this documentary] is a wake-up call for how we idolize people, and to understand that everybody is a human being.”
