Netflix Doc Was Just the Opening Act — 50 Cent Is About to Turn Up the Heat on P Diddy

50 Cent is not done with the Diddy doc. On Sherri Shepherd's couch, he basically said there is a vault of extra footage that did not make it into Netflix's four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning, and he is thinking about dropping some of it straight to YouTube. If that sounds chaotic, well, he seems fine with that.

50 on Sherri: bigger than he expected, and yes, he has more

50 Cent popped up on The Sherri Shepherd Show on December 10 and took a very public victory lap. Shepherd congratulated him for grabbing the top spot on Netflix and called the doc "outperforming everything" on the platform. When she asked if the runaway success surprised him, he said he actually expected it to be bigger, then admitted it has now blown past even his expectations. He even claimed it is outperforming Stranger Things on Netflix.

"I expected it to be bigger... It's actually exceeded my expectations now. Stranger Things is a huge show, and it's outperforming Stranger Things on Netflix."

So, what about all that personal footage in the series? Shepherd pressed him on whether there is more. He confirmed there is, and a lot of it. With only four episodes to work with, his team had to cut plenty. He even teased messy relationship overlaps that did not make the edit, mentioning a baby with a woman who had previously dated 2Pac. The point was less the specific gossip and more that they left hours on the cutting room floor.

Season 2 or just hit upload?

When Shepherd floated the idea of a second season, 50 smirked and tossed out another option: "Or just put it on YouTube." He did not promise anything, but the implication was clear. If he starts posting outtakes directly, this could go from a neatly packaged docuseries to an unfiltered drip-feed.

How did they even get this footage?

This is the part that has everyone squinting at the screen. The series leans on deeply personal, behind-the-scenes tapes. Here is how the people involved say those tapes ended up in the doc, and why everyone is fighting over it:

• Journalist Rob Shuter has said that Combs once planned his own documentary and kept cameras around him constantly, but he allegedly did not pay a key videographer and never put formal contracts in place. According to Shuter, that opened the door for the footage to be sold later when allegations against Combs started surfacing. Shuter also claimed that when Combs faced legal trouble, the material became "a business opportunity" for the person holding it.
• Netflix and the doc's director, Alexandria Stapleton, say they obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights. Stapleton says they went out of their way to protect the filmmaker's identity and repeatedly reached out to Combs's legal team, who did not respond. She also notes Combs had a habit of filming himself constantly.
• 50 Cent, never one to waste a punchline, joked that Combs was basically documenting his own downfall.
• Combs's representatives blasted the series as "a shameful hit piece," accused Netflix of using "stolen footage," and said the streamer handed creative control to a "longtime adversary." They argue Combs has been gathering footage since he was nineteen to tell his story and call this release fundamentally unfair.

Bottom line: there is a ton of material, the rights are disputed depending on who you ask, and 50 sounds ready to share more if he feels like it.

Where this could go next

50 says he is sitting on hours that never made the doc, and he is openly flirting with pushing it out online. If he does, this saga shifts from a tightly edited prestige doc to a real-time content dump. Whether that is good, bad, or just more noise probably depends on your tolerance for the mess.

Should 50 Cent release the unseen footage, or has this already spiraled enough? Tell me what you think. Sean Combs: The Reckoning is streaming now on Netflix.