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Diddy’s Stepson Sends Letter To Dad Al B Sure

By Deborah Bennett, Senior Editor April 17, 2009 11:59 am

Say what you want to about Diddy, but you have to admit he’s a good father to his kids.  Stepson Quincy Combs who is the biological son of 80’s singer Al B Sure has always been extremely close to Diddy. Diddy event went all out on Quincy’s 16th birthday party (which Al did not attend) and gave him a 1964 Lincoln Continental, inside remade.

Quincy recently wrote a letter to his biological father that you must read:

A Letter To My Father

I’ve been inspired throughout my life by special circumstances and unique experiences. Foremost, I grew up with a family that injected me with unconditional love and enduring confidence. This is my foundation … the family holidays and celebrations with my maternal lineage … supportive smiles in audiences at school programs … guiding hands to complete homework and special projects in the wee hours of the morning.

However, I grew up without my father, an irreplaceable force and influence that was absent in my life. I watched other kids enjoy the embrace of theirs, and I searched for a way to reconcile the meaning of my circumstance. Despite my pain, I’ve imagined a life as a good son with my father. Baseball … Playing in School Band … Church … All of the things that he would expect his son to do, I’ve done. I’ve stood in front of audiences to receive awards. I heard their applause and praise. But, the accolades have been absent the sound of his clapping hands and encouraging words … his voice that I could distinguish in my sleep. Where has he been?

Now, I reflect on the journey, the pain, the challenges, and the triumphs through this song. I’m reconciled as a man, no longer a boy, in verse. Now, I know that I’m not alone.

Albert Brown, also known as “Al B Sure!” is my biological father, but Sean Combs, also known as “Diddy” has been a father figure in my life for as long as I can remember. Sean Combs is the person whom I look up to and appreciate as a father. He is the one who help mold me into the person I am today and will always try to live up to his expectations. He has always been supportive of me and I will forever love and respect him. As far as my biological father goes, the “spitting image” is all I have taken from him. Throughout my life, I’ve always wondered about him; Where he was? What was he doing? and most importantly, Was he even thinking about me? The absence of my father has given me a better understanding of what type of man I am going to be. I am grateful for my mom’s love, support, guidance, and for her strength.

To those who share my plight, know that you have a great future … a DESTINY. Take the lemons that you are handed and make lemonade. Your journey is in “A Letter To My Father.”

To all those fathers out there, step up your game!!!

Here’s some pics of Quincy with both of his dads:

Diddy’s girl shaves her head.

Speaking of hair, did you know that Diddy shaves his legs? Click here to see.

TAGS: Al B Sure, diddy, father, fatherhood, letter, Quincy Combs, relationships
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  • bravbravbrav
    bravbravbrav
    4-20-2009 3:04 pm

    WTF? TAKE CARE OF WHO, WOMEN KILL ME, TAKE CARE OF KIM PORTER ASS LOL,JUST LIKE SHE TOOK CARE OF HIM HE TOOK CARE OF HER WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER SMH….

  • n2hair09
    n2hair09
    4-20-2009 2:56 pm

    Well maybe he is just a bright kid who doesn’t have to speak like he sags his pants. He has had the good life and been given ivy league education. So he should be able to write a letter that seems to be coached. He has been educated. Hell, Al B Sure, should be ashamed of his self if this is how it is. Men make these boys and leave them when times are hard. Just because his ass aint got what Puffy got that don’t mean don’t show up. At least he is recognizing him at all. Hey Diddy keep up the good work. And I got another one for ya that I would love to turn out like YOUR SON.

  • Anthropological
    Anthropological
    4-20-2009 2:49 pm

    DIDDY NEEDS TO TAKE CARE OF KIM PORTER????
    lady are you insane? That heffa aint paralyzed!!! She can work just like everyone else… just because she was a groupie and managed to get knocked up by a star doesnt mean that she deserves to be “taken care of”…..
    support for the children…. but a DIME for the mothers!

  • Grad_Studnt
    Grad_Studnt
    4-20-2009 2:18 pm

    That letter sounds like something straight from a public relations firm. LOL I don’t know the situation between him and his dad, the boy is still a teenager. Furthermore, I don’t know the relationship between him and Kim Porter who has stuck to Puffy’s dick like a fly on some s**t,and he still won’t marry. I simply don’t know…

  • tinker44
    tinker44
    4-20-2009 2:12 pm

    I do understand the pain this young man is going through because I went through this with own my son. I think men sometimes shy away from their sons because they don’t want them to end up in the same situation they are in, if it is not a good one. When I ended the abusive marriage I had with my son’s father he refused to take time out with him he even quit his job so that he wouldn’t have to pay child support. But at the same time he entered into a relationship with another women who had a son and he sort of helped her raise him. This was very hurtful to my son and he did not deserve this so we moved to another state. When my son turned 25 he confronted his father all he could say was your mother left me I did not leave you, it was your mother’s fault. Sometime kids end up paying for things that are beyond their control. I know my son feels better about the situation now that he realize things would have been worse if he had a relationship this looser I just didn’t have the heart to tell him I wanted him to find out for himself and he did. So to Quincy hang in there when it is time you will have a meaningful conversation with Al. In the meantime show your beautiful mother and Diddy some love and be thankful that you have them in your life. Put it in God’s hands, believe me it works!!

  • Siquizine_Luv
    Siquizine_Luv
    4-20-2009 1:48 pm

    Puffy took care of his own children, but tries to buy others out, now sadly 16 is a rather influential time in a teenagers life and it can be swayed on tip scale either way, i didnt know Al B had any children, this puffy dude had desroyed more familes then he has accomadated, Ive never liked his sadity ass, and these cake ass hoes dat do like him, only like his money, no dats what you call a “Busta”!

  • Siquizine_Luv
    Siquizine_Luv
    4-20-2009 1:47 pm

    Puffy took care of his own children, but tries to buy others out, now sadly 16 is a rather influential time in a teenagers life and it can be swayed on tip scale either way, i didnt know Al B had any children, this puffy dude had desroyed more familes then he has accomadated, Ive never liked his sadity ass, and these cake ass hoes dat do like him, only like his money, no dats what you a “Busta”!

  • EFEEZEE
    EFEEZEE
    4-20-2009 1:35 pm

    This letter seem a lil bogus. He’s not talking to his father it’s like he’s talking to the public. Which 2 me makes this look like something that was put together to make his pops (Al B) look bad. And that’s not for the public to be apart of, it’s for you and ya pops to discuss man 2 man. If I was Al B I would b pretty upset. Family matters are for family not for outsiders.

  • REAL_HO_NIIYLEA
    REAL_HO_NIIYLEA
    4-20-2009 1:23 pm

    AS A SINGLE MOTHER OF 3 BOYS WHO GOT WITH A MAN THAT TOOK THEM ON AND LOVED THEM AS HIS OWN, THIS STORY IS TRULY BELEIVABLE!!! AND AS FAR AS TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY CHILD SUPPORT ISN’T BEING A DADDY BY NO MEANS! COME ON GUY! HOW IS HE SUPPOSE TO FEEL HIS DAD WASN’T THERE! MEN ARE SO BIZZY HATING ON “PUFFY” ! (I MEAN YES HE’S A ASS HOLE , BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE REALNESS AWAY FROM HIM NO, MATTER WHAT YOU FEEL ABOUT HIM AS A PERSON! AND HAVE WE EVER MET HIM NO!

  • aledra14
    aledra14
    4-20-2009 1:18 pm

    hell diddy needs to be doing something and as for kim porter and who ever that was upset because she took his ass to court for child support, look if you have children you need to take care of them and their mother because when you were with her you were getting taken care of just like every other dead beat ass man who has a problem with child support take it from someone who has been on both sides of the fence take care of your f**king kids so everybody else doesn’t have to.

  • Anthropological
    Anthropological
    4-20-2009 1:11 pm

    This all just makes me upset with Kim Porter… who took this man to court and had him paying the largest amount of child support ever awarded to a woman and yet Diddy takes care of her child as his very own…. scandalous ass hooker

  • Dat_Muzishun
    Dat_Muzishun
    4-20-2009 12:48 pm

    If any dude got me a classic vehicle with the inside remade…I’d probably want him to be my father too lol

  • MR_FREAKNASTY
    MR_FREAKNASTY
    4-20-2009 11:32 am

    As always there is 2 sides to every story. The one side we have not heard is AL’s. All we can do is speculate that what Quincy is saying is true. However what I don’t like is that he making Sean “Puffy, Puff Daddy, Puff Diddy, P. Diddy, Diddy” Combs perfect. We have seen news clippings of what Sean has done. The womanizing, bouncing between famous women, (not to mention shaving his legs). To me it seems as if Sean is buying Quincy’s affection. What some people don’t understand is that there are alot of mother’s who keep fathers from the kids out of spite or vindictiveness to the father. Then the child grows up thinking the father is the “bad guy”. Regardless of what Quincy’s mother has told him, unless he has talked to his father stop putting Sean on a pedestal because he is human …. and as humans we all disappoint people at some time or another!!!!

  • jus-2_chill
    jus-2_chill
    4-20-2009 11:28 am

    this is straight bulls**t! shorty probabbly did’nt even write this f**ks**t! i thought it was a letter? if it was a letter he wrote to his got damn dad then why does it sound like im hearing a f**king story being told to me? if its a letter he wrote to his dad, why did he have to say,” albert brown also known as al b sure? if it was letter he wrote to his f**king father, why did he feel the need to give some uplifting words to other people? why the words of wisdom to all the other fathers out here? i thought it was a letter to his father. they did say it was a letter that he wrote to his father right? or did i miss something here?

  • LOOKIN4_ME
    LOOKIN4_ME
    4-20-2009 11:20 am

    Yes he looks just like his dad! So true we all will have to reep what we sow. And for the parents that aren’t active in the kids lives is so sad it’s like this is an epidemic. And these are the adults that grow up disfunctional from their child hood. Maybe one day in this life time we will see absent dads step up… well it doesn’t hurt to put this out into the universe

  • ms_shann
    ms_shann
    4-20-2009 11:10 am

    We read about it happening everyday… But you know WHOSE lost it really is THE PARENTS… yeah the child loses out on alot as well but at the end of the day when it is all over and said…. THE PARENT leaves this world DEPENDING on their child… Its just a cycle… We come in needing our parents BUT they LEAVE out NEEDING their children…. Trust me when I say AL B Sure will REEP what he sew as far as being a dead beat father… HE WILL… and that boy look JUST like him…

  • increttable
    increttable
    4-20-2009 10:50 am

    I understand this letter, but I don’t like that it’s on here. I’ve been there. My mother chose to step out of her situation with my father and try to do different. I have a half brother and we are months apart, so that gives you an idea of what was going on. Fastforward eleven years to when I “first” met him and found out he was a drug abuser. My mother never told me or talked bad about him. The truth came from my cousin. I became depressed because my dad had chosen drugs over me. Then I got angry and I wrote letters. I wrote letters to him and one to my mom, but when my mom sent the letter I had written her to the family, it made things worse. I know she wanted to do what she thought was best, but I had already written what I wanted him to read. That was for her and her only. I said way worse than what Quincy has, but I said it to get it out and move on. I love my dad regardless. I don’t love what he has chosen for himself, but I didn’t have anything to do with that. It wasn’t about embarassing him or shaming him, which is what I feel posting this letter is about. Quincy looks like Al had him all by himself, so I’m sure it’s painful for him to see so much of his father in the mirror, but not standing beside him. Yet, this is only one side. Like a few people said, we don’t know ourselves where Al is. We also don’t know what the circ**stances of visitation or contact are. Hell, I didn’t even know he had kids. Maybe this is what Al needs to hear in order to step up, but when you embarrass someone into reaching out to you, it could make them resent you and make matters worse. You can only do so much, then you just have to move on and enjoy the folks that are there for you…and yes, that’s easier said than done.

  • shanaynay-ranaynay
    shanaynay-ranaynay
    4-20-2009 10:26 am

    s**t so wat if diddy steps his game up n is there for the kid when his father aint man enough to do it himself im goin through the same damn thing n diddy along wit my step dad aka dad is just cleanin up the dirty work that the little boy left behind. this goes out to all men: wrap it b/4 youbring another child into the cruel world w/out a father! theyre just as important as mothers are.most women cant back out from the wrongdoings but they stay strong n do wat they gotta do

  • mercifire
    mercifire
    4-20-2009 10:21 am

    LIL BOY DON’T KNOW NOTHING…YOU GET A CAR FROM A RICH MAN..AND NOW U ALL ON HIM HUH…..WAIT TILL HE AINT GOT NO MONEY NO MORE… THEN HE WILL C WHY AL AINT AROUND ALL THE TIME

  • Shigyrl_7
    Shigyrl_7
    4-20-2009 10:04 am

    This letter is very right on. It is a shame that some people want to excuse the behavior of an uninvolved parent. As a single mother of a beautiful little girl. Who has reached an age where she questions the presence of her father in her life. Just like Quincy no DNA test is required to prove he is her father. From the face to the way she walks she is her daddy all over.
    He isn’t there for the soccer games, dance recitals, and other special affairs. He doesn’t pick up the phone to call and say hello how are you doing. Whether the child is a boy or a girl. Having their father in their life is crucial. Fathers can teach their son’s to be men and their daughters to respect themselves and so much more for both. I have to give diddy his props. He was a real man when Quincy’s sperm donor chose not to be.

  • truthbspoken
    truthbspoken
    4-20-2009 8:56 am

    I hear, you my ex husband of 14 years wants nothing to do with his little girl never any gifts, visits, money, phone calls nothing at all and she is also a spitting image of her and thats all she has from him. god bless you sweetie although I use to be a big fan of your dad back in the days. Shame on you men who don’t care for their kids……

  • Boo-Ditty
    Boo-Ditty
    4-20-2009 8:02 am

    I wouldn’t won’t his lil spoiled punk ass neither…lol!!!

  • missque-que06
    missque-que06
    4-20-2009 7:21 am

    Also the article says that Al didn’t attend his sweet 16 bday. I saw it on TV as well- how did we know he wasn’t there. There is a lot of editing on that show- who is to say that Al didn’t do his own thing with his son- the show just displayed what all Diddy did for Quincy for his Bday. Unless you were there and shook everyone’s hand in the place, you have no clue if he was there or not. When you start reading the article it already paints a negative picture of Al, hence all the negative comments against him…

  • missque-que06
    missque-que06
    4-20-2009 7:20 am

    A lot of people who wrote comments mentioned that they either did not have a father in their life or they did not have a good one in their life. Quincy wrote a great letter, yet he has to realize that he is the lucky one- he is one of the few who can say I have a mom, a dad, and a step father- regardless of who they are- celebrities or not. He credits having support from his mom or his maternal sided of the family…to me he seem to have more support than that.

  • rajarabbit
    rajarabbit
    4-20-2009 7:11 am

    I think alot of black men have that same plight and its getting worse. I grew up without having a real dad that was there and it really troubles a child especially a male. But you have to work through it and swear to yourself to be a better person.

    Black men making all these babies and not taking caring of them is a damn shame and its worse now.

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