Quincy Shares Status of His Relationship With Father Al B. Sure After the 2009 Open Letter He Wrote to Him
The 33-year-old singer said Russell Simmons encouraged him to reach out to his biological father, with whom he shared with the late Kim Porter.
Quincy Brown is speaking out about reconciling with his biological father Al B. Sure.
The topic came up during a new episode of Angela Yee’s Lip Service podcast published on Tuesday. At the 45:11 mark in the video above, the 33-year-old was asked about the open letter he penned to his biological father in 2009.
In the letter, Brown called the singer out for being “absent” in his life and commended his adoptive parent Sean “Diddy” Combs for being “a father figure in my life for as long as I can remember.”
Al B. Sure later responded, telling Essence, “I’m a human being so of course hearing about any family member being disappointed with you is devastating, but what can you do? I’m a human being and my job is to fix it.”
“I will not engage in a private family matter with the public, but I will say that Quincy is the most wonderful, kind young man in the world, and whatever he and I are going through we are going to work it out and that’s all that counts,” he later added.
Quincy told Lip Service that he and his biological father are “cool now," and Al even congratulates his son on his new album, #ETA: Earlier Than Anticipated, which arrived last month.
“I think we got a cool relationship, right? He tends to like try and do like the ‘dad thing’ a lot. But it's like that's not really where we're at in life. Like, we homies more than anything,” he said. “We're like, let's go do something, you know what I mean? And I feel like that's kind of where we're getting at now is actually knowing that we two grown men. You know what I mean? We can talk about anything and everything. It's not about anything else.”
When asked what made him want to write the open letter in the first place, he said it all started when he ran into Russell Simmons while out to dinner.
“I think we got on the topic of him and [Simmons] was like, ‘Wait, what do you mean you haven't spoken to him?’ And I was like, ‘Well, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do so,’” Brown recalled, adding that the Def Jam co-founder encouraged him to get his feelings out there and control his own narrative.
“It was just something I just wanted to just get off my chest and let people know because people always is, ‘You look just like your daddy, you look just like your dad.’ So it's like if you ain't even got no real like relationship with him and you hearing that everyday? That you just like, ‘Okay.’ But you know, I love my dad. And like I said, we're way in a better place.”
Quincy said it’s “the goal” to inspire others in a similar situation to be the first to bridge the gap with an estranged parent.
Al B. Sure welcomed son Quincy with the late Kim Porter in June 1991. Porter began dating Diddy in 1994 when Quincy was merely three years old.
Porter shared three other children with Diddy, including 26-year-old Christian Combs, and twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie Combs, 17.
It’s not clear when Quincy’s Lip Service interview was recorded, but it was uploaded on the same day that his adoptive parent Diddy was arrested in New York City following sex trafficking allegations.
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