Al B. Sure! to Detail 'Shocking Ties' to Diddy in Tell-All Memoir

R&B legend Al B. Sure! is set to release a tell-all memoir this fall titled Do You Believe Me Now?

The book will reveal details about the singer’s near-fatal health crisis and his “shocking ties to Diddy,” according to a press release from publisher Simon & Schuster.

“For years, Al B. Sure! had been ringing the alarm to law enforcement officials,” the publisher says. “People called him crazy. Now, back from the brink of death, he reclaims his power and truth in this incredible memoir about finding inner peace despite countless attempts to break him.”

Al B. Sure! made headlines earlier this week when his name was mentioned during jury selection at Diddy’s federal sex trafficking trial in New York City.

On Monday as potential jurors were being questioned, one individual said they worked in the marketing department at Simon & Schuster and was involved with an Al B. Sure! memoir. The person was immediately excused, but the media flooded Simon & Schuster with questions and the publisher released details about the memoir. The book will be released on Sept. 9, 2025.

Al B. Sure! is the biological father of Diddy’s “adopted” son Quincy Brown. The singer and producer’s ex-partner Kim Porter became Diddy’s longtime girlfriend and was the mother to three of the Bad Boy Records founder’s children before she died in 2018.

Earlier this year, the “Rescue Me” singer appeared in the Peacock documentary Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. He suggested Diddy had something to do with Porter’s death.

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Porter, 47, died of natural causes from lobar pneumonia. But Al B. Sure! disagreed with that finding and said in the film “something is not right with this.”

He also suggested Diddy was involved in his own medical emergency that left him in a coma.

“I kept a record of every single one of you who was sent to set me up, to assist in the attempted murder of Al B. Sure!,” he said in the film. In a statement at the time, Diddy’s legal team denied all of the allegations in the film.

Al B. Sure! is now an ambassador for the American Liver Foundation. The organization announced its partnership with the singer in October 2023 and said he had received a liver transplant a year earlier.

Born Albert Joseph Brown III, the singer entered a talent competition in the 1980s and was selected as the winner by Quincy Jones.

Known by his stage name Al B. Sure!, Grammy-nominated singer became a heartthrob with the release of his debut album In Effect Mode in 1988. The album sold more than three million copies and reached #1 on the Billboard’s R&B charts.