Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoHere's A Breakdown Of 50 Cent's "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" Netflix DocumentaryThe viral doc compiles decades' worth of stories about Diddy.by Karlton JahmalBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Warning: This article mentions sexual assault, abuse, and violence. Unless you've been living under a rock, it's hard to escape the virality of Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The Netflix documentary, which was executive-produced by 50 Cent, chronicles the history of Sean Combs - aka P. Diddy or Puff Daddy - in the music industry. The doc brings together decades of stories and rumors about the hip-hop mogul. Although most, if not all, of these stories have been told and shared for years, this is the first time they've all been compiled into one piece for viewers to digest. Netflix In 2025, Diddy was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He is currently serving a 50-month sentence in federal prison. Sean Combs: The Reckoning focuses less on that trial and conviction, and spends most of its time diving into Diddy's rise to fame. Arnaldo Magnani / Getty Images After the documentary was released, Diddy's legal team issued the following statement to Variety: "We're not going to comment on individual claims being repeated in the documentary. Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years. Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they're simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification. Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production." Here is everything the documentary covers: Diddy's upbringing. 1. Diddy is the son of infamous New York gangster Melvin Earl Combs. Netflix Melvin was a major drug lord in New York who was friends with Frank Lucas (played by Denzel Washington in American Gangster). He was murdered when Diddy was only three years old. 2. When Diddy was young, his mother, Janice Combs, allegedly threw very big parties. New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images In the doc, Diddy's friend from childhood, Tim Patterson, states that, "In Sean's household, you'd start to see all the stuff that you saw in the movies. Janice knew how to throw a party, and the parties were packed. You got the ladies who looked like they were straight out of a Jet magazine. Some brothers up there. If you want to call them pimps, you can. If you want to call them hustlers, you can. You got a member of the New York Knicks, or two. There was a stage in her living room, literally a stage. And that's where we used to have to go and dance. And everybody's calling you, 'Baby.' And everybody's saying, 'Do that dance.' And all of this stuff he's taking in." 3. Patterson also claims that Black exploitation films like Super Fly and The Mack were movies he and Diddy enjoyed watching as children. Netflix "And then we had these movies we'd watch," Patterson states. "This genre of films called Black exploitation. You had Super Fly. You had The Mack. Their parts were hustler parts. In Sean's household, you start to see all the stuff you saw in the movies." Patterson claims that Janice drove around in luxury cars and dressed a young Diddy in the finest of clothing, establishing a lifestyle precedent for him. 4. Diddy allegedly received a lot of beatings as a child from his mother. Actors Studio Inc. / Global ImageWorks The doc uses a clip of Janice, while she and Diddy were on Inside the Actors Studio where she states, "He got a lot of beatings too." Patterson alleges that when Diddy got beatings, it "scared" him. "His beatings made me scared," he states. "I got beatings now. But when he got his beatings, it wasn't a joking thing. Damn, I hate thinking about that."After the documentary aired, Janice released a statement that read, "I am writing this statement to correct some of the lies presented in the Netflix show, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, released on December 2, 2025. These inaccuracies regarding my son Sean's upbringing and family life are intentionally done to mislead viewers and further harm our reputation. In the documentary, I am portrayed as an abusive parent. This is untrue. As I have stated previously, I was a single mother, raising my son I held three and even four jobs in an attempt to provide a comfortable upbringing and quality education for my child. I raised Sean with love and hard work, not abuse." Diddy's rise to fame. 5. Diddy rose to fame in the rap industry as an intern to Andre Harrell. Kmazur / Getty Images Andre founded Uptown Records, which was responsible for bringing us Al B. Sure and Heavy D. Once Diddy began interning for Andre, he helped discover and break artists for the label,