Curtis Jackson, well known as “50 Cent,” Netflix’s new documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” explores longstanding allegations and testimonies regarding Sean “Diddy” Combs’s potential involvement in the murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

The second episode of “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” which was released December 2, 2025, has led to a revisit of rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie Small” Wallace’s deaths, alleging that Combs played a central role in both deaths.

The episode features interviews with rapper Mark Curry, Roxxane Johnson, the former wife of late Bad Boy artist Craig Mack, and Bad Boy Records co-founder Kirk Burrowes, in which they all claimed Combs exploited artists financially and escalated the East Coast-West Coast rivalry that defined hip-hop in the 90’s.

Episode two also dives into the rivalry between Combs’ Bad Boy and Suge Knight’s Death Row Records on the West Coast. While Death Row boasted popular artists like Dr. Dre and Tupac, Bad Boy boasted artists like Biggie and Faith Evans.  Interviewees claimed that the rivalry was never truly between the artists but escalated after executives, particularly Combs, intensified this feud.

In fact, Kirk Burrows states, “I think Sean had an envy for his own artists; he was jealous of their talent,” even alleging that Combs forced him to sign over his 25% stake of the stock in the label they co-founded by threatening him with a baseball bat. Leading many people to believe his envy for his artists influenced his behavior and decisions.(Burrows,December 2,2025).

After a while the label war eventually bled into a gang war, with the documentary arguing that Combs was the center of the Crips on the side of Bad Boy and Biggie, and the Bloods on the side of Knight and Death Row. The documentary also alleges that he was connected to drug boss Duane “Keffe D” Davis through Eric Von Zip. Davis is currently awaiting trial for the killing of Shakur. Von Zip, who C0mbs claimed was his uncle, appeared big in the New York gang scene.  In a recording with commentary from former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading, Davis can be heard recounting how he and nephew Orlando Anderson successfully pulled off the 1996 Las Vegas shooting of Tupac Shakur. Davis also alleges that Combs had agreed to pay him and other members of the gang to kill Shakur and Knight, who was in the car the night of that shooting, but in the end, failed to pay because Knight wasn’t killed and it led to Von Zip, who had died.

It was also alleged that Combs had urged the rapper Biggie Smalls to go to LA for promotion for his album.  The artist was shot and killed during that trip in 1997.

It was alleged that Combs ushered Biggie to his death and lied about Biggie’s desire to be in Los Angeles.

It was also alleged that Davis, a former LA gangbanger, claimed that Combs put a million-dollar hit on the heads of Shakur and Knight, even though Combs denied the allegations.

It is also alleged that Combs threw a big funeral and in the end made the charges recuperable , so the artist was paying for his own funeral.

As of now, Combs’s team has spoken with USA Today, stating, “Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece.” Combs spokesperson Juda Engelmayer also told USA TODAY on Tuesday, Dec. 2, that the rapper’s legal team would not be commenting “on individual claims being repeated in the documentary.”(Engelmayer, December 2,2025).