[Opinion] From Rap Icon To Mogul: How 50 Cent Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Strategic Power Players

From Rap Icon To Mogul: How 50 Cent Became One Of Hollywood’s Most Strategic Power Players

By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated December 8, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… This may be an extremely unpopular opinion, but I’ll just go out on a limb and say it: I’ve always been a fan of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.Now that that is out in the open, let me tell you why. First, and foremost, as a fellow Cancer, I can (sometimes) understand his level of petty — the Diddy documentary (“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” as it’s called on Netflix) b…

Sean Combs The Reckoning And Why His Story Mirrors Us.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Sean Combs: The Reckoning streamed to a huge audience on Netflix. What Reckoning doesn’t say or show is how and why Sean Combs represents a piece of many of us. That starts with why his story is even a story and why he is so well-known and in a perverse way still fawned over. The starting point is celebrity. Millions are intoxicated by it. Mention even the most insignificant. trivial, even downright silly, antics of a celebrity…

Sean Combs: The Reckoning: What Really Happened Between P Diddy & 50 Cent? Feud Explained

The long-running feud between 50 Cent and Sean “Diddy” Combs has taken center stage with the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The documentary, released on December 2, 2025, is executive-produced by 50 Cent. The doc film dives into Combs’ se*ual abuse allegations while shedding light on one of hip-hop’s most famous rivalries. The feud has roots in the early 2000s, but 50 Cent’s rise to fame wasn’t smooth. He was shot nine times outs…