Quincy Brown is opening up about the status of his relationship with his biological father, singer Al B. Sure, and he even claims, “We’re cool now and can talk about anything and everything.”
To note, Quincy is the son of Al B. Sure and the late Kim Porter. He was born in June 1991 and Porter began dating Quincy’s bonus father, entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, in 1994, when Quincy was about three years old. Porter also shares three other children with Diddy, including, 26-year-old Christian Combs, and their 17-year-old twin daughters D’Lila Combs and Jessie Combs.
Now, it’s no secret that Quincy, now 33, has had an estranged relationship with his father Al B. Sure for several years of his life. He even penned an open letter to his father in 2009, in which he called out his legendary father for being “absent” in his life, leaving him to praise and commend his bonus father. He claimed his adoptive parent was that “father figure” he’d been looking up to “all my life for as long as I can remember.”
Al B. Sure later responded to Quincy’s open letter, 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.”
In recent years, Al B. Sure has been trying to reconnect with his son, sending out several public invitations, and even more so as Quincy’s bonus dad started to find himself facing mounting legal troubles. Quincy’s real father has been trying to pull his coattail and reconcile their relationship more than ever before.
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While speaking out about reconciling with his biological father Al B. Sure, Quincy Brown, who goes by simply Quincy, reveals things are looking up for the duo. He recently sat down with Angela Yee and co-hosts on Yee’s ‘Lip Service‘ podcast. It’s not clear when Quincy recorded his new interview, but it was published on Tuesday (September 17), the same day his bonus father Diddy was arrested in NYC on a RICO and sex trafficking indictment.
During the episode, Quincy was asked about the open letter he penned to his biological father in 2009. Quincy told Yee and her co-hosts that he and his biological father are “cool now” and that Al B. Sure even congratulated him on his new album, ‘#ETA: Earlier Than Anticipated,’ which dropped last month. Quincy said, “I think we got a cool relationship, right? He tends to try and do 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.”
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He added, “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 about why he decided to write an open letter to his father, Quincy said the idea came to him after running into Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons at dinner. He recalled, “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.'”
Quincy continued, “It was just something I just wanted to just get off my chest and let people know because people always [say] ‘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 every day? That you just like, ‘Okay.’ But you know, I love my dad. And like I said, we’re way in a better place.”
For Quincy, “the goal” is to inspire other children in similar situations and encourage them to be the first person to step up and bridge the gap with an estranged parent.
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