Rapper and producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and director Alex Stapleton appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” with co-anchor Robin Roberts to debate their upcoming Netflix docuseries, “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” revealing new particulars about its content material and clarifying its controversial motivation.

Unseen Footage Earlier than the Arrest

Jackson and Stapleton confirmed that the documentary consists of never-before-seen footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs within the days main as much as his arrest final September. The clip obtained completely by Netflix reveals Combs talking along with his attorneys about his authorized technique, visibly annoyed along with his protection staff’s coordination.

Combs is heard saying: “I’m going to get off the cellphone proper now and I’m going to allow you to professionals take a look at the scenario and are available again to me with an answer… you aren’t working collectively the precise approach, we’re dropping.”

Jackson admitted he was “stunning that he really filmed it.” Stapleton added that it was “very fascinating to observe a person identified for his model presence—he has an actual knack for advertising—and the way he was taking that under consideration in how he was coming off to the general public.”

Addressing the ‘Beef’ and Victims

Addressing critics who declare the documentary is motivated by 50 Cent’s long-standing private pressure with Combs moderately than a need to raise victims’ voices, Jackson downplayed the seriousness of their previous rivalry.

Jackson steered his so-called “pre-existing beef for 20 years is me being uncomfortable with him suggesting he takes me procuring. I checked out it like I used to be a tester—like ‘perhaps you’ll come play with me.’”

Stapleton burdened the movie’s dedication to goal storytelling: “The present will not be utterly the angle of people that didn’t like Sean. We weren’t attempting to simply get the highlights and salacious particulars. The true objective was to inform a narrative, and never everybody wanted to have an allegation to be a part of this undertaking.”

Relating to victims, Jackson particularly voiced assist for singer Cassie Ventura: “I imagine she is a sufferer in all of this. She got here in at 18 or 19 on the very starting, and over time you’re conditioned for it.”

Jackson additionally defined why his commentary is important throughout the hip-hop group.

“If I didn’t say something, you’d interpret it as hip-hop being high quality along with his conduct. There’s nobody else being vocal… these issues would permit a complete tradition to register as in the event that they had been for that conduct,” he acknowledged, indicating his function as a crucial counterbalance to silence.

Lastly, when requested about Combs’ potential response to the movie, Jackson supplied a provocative prediction: “Like, wow—that is superb. I feel he’s going to say that is the most effective documentary I’ve seen in a very long time… He might really feel in a different way about items and bits of it, however he is aware of the reality. I feel he’ll see the reality in it.”

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