Quincy Brown is opening up about his relationship with his father, singer Al B. Sure.
During a recent interview, the 33-year-old actor was asked about the letter that he wrote to his father in 2009. In the letter, Quincy called his father “absent” and applauded his adoptive father, Diddy for being that “father figure” in his life.
Al B. Sure would respond to the letter during an interview of his own at that time. “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,” he said. “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.”
Since then, Quincy has revealed that he and his father are in a better space now. “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.”
He later revealed that Russell Simmons was the reason he wrote the letter in the first place. “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 said. He added that Simmons encouraged him to get out of his feelings and to control the narrative.
Quincy Brown 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.”
He said that the letter was a way to encourage others to get in touch with their estranged parent. Al B. Sure and the late Kim Porter welcomed Quincy in 1991.