Rapper 50 Cent’s longtime rivalry with hip-hop nemesis Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has led us all to this moment. The severely anticipated 4-part documentary series, which has been in the pipeline ever since the disgraced mogul became the high-profile subject of myriads of notorious lawsuits.
The “In Da Club” performer, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, had once sarcastically teased the production would carry the name “Diddy Do It?” However, the official reveal surrounding the forthcoming release now confirm he’s dropped the wordplay, as the series has been titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
Grammy-winning Curtis ‘50 Cent‘ Jackson serves as the executive producer, with Emmy Award-winning Alexandria Stapleton sitting in the director’s seat. As he claims to have long done through his G-Unit Film and Television banner, the rapper has once against “committed to real storytelling.”
50 Cent’s Diddy documentary OTT release date
Sean Combs: The Reckoning will start streaming on Netflix on December 2, 2025. More details on who all will be featured in the four-part series are awaited. A teaser for the same has also been released.
“They said I was capping,” 50 Cent captioned his Instagram post about the doc’s announcement. “What happened? GLG 🚦GreenLightGang 🎥 G-unit Film & Tv @50centaction.”
The teaser, on the other hand, features a brief voiceover by former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry: “You can’t continue to keep hurting people and nothing ever happens. It’s just a matter of time…”
The title text “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” is flashed on the screen as soon as the audio trails off.
What will Sean Combs The Reckoning be about?
Presented as a true-crime documentary, the series seeks to unpack the shocking allegations that rocked Diddy’s fame and music-cum-business empire. These scandalous accusations that have been the focus of countless lawsuits have spanned decades.
The case against the Bad Boy Records founder first soared to its controversial peak when his ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Venture filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023, citing a “cycle of abuse, violence and sex trafficking.”
Although the case was settled out of court at the time, Cassie paved the way for a seemingly endless trail of jaw-dropping allegations to come in the future. The culmination of it all? The rapper accused of running a sex-trafficking operation was ultimately found guilty on two counts of transportation for prostitution in July.
Although the guilty verdicts were served, he was also acquitted of the most serious three other charges, including a racketeering charge, which could have left him with a life-long prison sentence.
Despite it all, Combs has long reiterated his innocence–something that he maintained even against the allegations laid in Cassie’s case. The narrative, however, flipped on him when last year US media exposed a buried hotel footage that captured him brutally kicking and dragging Ventura through a lobby.
Even with all that has happened, Diddy’s fortune and fame saga remains hard to forget. Having long served as the gatekeeper of the hip-hop music industry in America, he was also responsible for launching dozens of other iconic artists like Mary J Blige, Danity Kane, The Notorious B.I.D. and Jodeci.
And so, directory Alexandria Stapleton affirmed the story isn’t solely about Sean Combs, Cassie or the any of the victims, the allegations or the trial that followed.
“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 idolise people, and to understand that everybody is a human being,” she added, as per Netflix Tudum.
The Revolt founder, who is now a convicted offender, is currently serving a 50-month sentence. He was transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Centre in New York to New Jersey’s Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution late October.