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50 Cent is giving people a first look at his upcoming documentary about Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal troubles.
On Monday, December 1, the rapper-filmmaker and the documentary's director, Alexandria Stapleton, sat down with Robin Roberts for an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." 50 Cent serves as the executive producer of the docuseries, which follows Combs in the days leading up to his arrest and details his sex trafficking case from start to finish. In the preview shared by Netflix, you can see Combs looking a bit frazzled as he talks to his lawyers about his case.
“I’m going to get off the phone right now and I am going to let you professionals look at the situation and come back to me with a solution… you are not working together the right way, we’re losing," Diddy says in the clip.
In another shot, Combs is walking around in the streets of Harlem and speaking with fans as they come up to him. One man in particular gave Combs a jacket right off his back and asked him to wear it. He does with pride, but once he's back in his car, he demands hand sanitizer and says he needs to bathe.
“It was very interesting to watch a man known for his brand presence — he has a real knack for marketing — and how he was taking that into account in how he was coming off to the public," Stapleton says.
Although he hasn't been a fan of the Bad Boy Records founder for nearly two decades, Fif and Stapleton believe that the docuseries is actually a well-rounded program. Stapleton also adds that it's "not completely the perspective of people who didn’t like Sean." In fact, 50 Cent, born Curtis Jackson, thinks Combs may even think it's "amazing."
"I think he is going to say this is the best documentary I’ve seen in a long time," Fif says. "He may feel differently about pieces and bits of it, but he knows the truth. I think he’ll see the truth in it.”
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is set to debut on Netflix this Tuesday, December 2. Watch the trailer below.