Al B. Sure! to Expose ‘Shocking’ Secrets About Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New Book: ‘Can’t Make This Sh*t Up’
Al B. Sure! is speaking his truth. The R&B legend will open up about his life – including his ties to hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs – in his new book, Do You Believe Me Now?
The upcoming tell-all memoir will reveal “the untold story of [Sure’s] near-death health emergency, shocking ties to Diddy, romance with the late Kim Porter, and the extraordinary highs and life-threatening lows of being a pioneering New Jack Swing superstar,” according to a press release from publisher Simon & Schuster. It’s scheduled to be released on September 9 and is available for pre-order now.
Al B. Sure! was ‘ringing the alarm bell’ about Diddy for years
Sure’s connections to Diddy run deep. His ex-wife Kim Porter was Combs’ long-time girlfriend and the mother of three of his children. After her death in 2018, he called for an investigation into what really happened. And when Diddy was arrested on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in 2024, the singer declared that people “really going to need to call Homeland Security” once they found out what caused him to end up in a coma two years earlier.
Now, it sounds like the platinum-selling artist is ready to go public and spill Diddy’s dirty secrets.
“For years, Al B. Sure! had been ringing the alarm to law enforcement officials about alleged gang stalking, surveillance, death threats, human trafficking, and psychological warfare against him and others in his orbit,” the press release continues. “People called him crazy. Now, back from the brink of death, he reclaims his power and truth after years of being gaslit.”
In addition to revelations about the Bad Boy Records founder, Sure’s memoir will chronicle his journey from the streets to New Jack Swing stardom, as well as his attempts to find inner peace “despite countless attempts to break him.”
R&B icon promises big revelations in his book: ‘Truly dark and disturbing sh*t’
Sure says that he emerged from his two-month coma in 2022 with an entirely new outlook on life, which inspired him to write his book.
“I reclaimed my power, engaged in deep, spiritual, soul searching … It’s now time to share my raw truth story with you all,” he wrote in a May 6 Instagram post.
“There’s an entire journey, before the coma and everything in between, stretching from wonderfully inspiring, to some truly dark and disturbing sh*t that to most would say sound like an Alfred Hitchcock novel. I can’t make this sh*t up,” Sure teased.
“I wrote this for myself, but I also wrote this book for you,” he continued. “If you recall, I was labeled cryptic, delusional, and out of my mind when I attempted to alert the authorities to ‘the real’ of what was happening to me and those close within my orbit for almost two decades. I was publicly ridiculed and dragged by the most expensive PR campaign to shut me down for good, all for exposing shenanigans.”
He also acknowledged that many people who’d follow Diddy and the artists he worked with for decades were experiencing “hip-hop culture shock because the keys to the castle fell into the wrong hands.”
“Well, ‘You Can Call Me Crazy’ like the song, but you can’t call me a liar!” he wrote.
Do You Believe Me Now? has already had an impact on Diddy’s trial. During jury selection, one potential juror was dismissed when they revealed that they worked at Simon & Schuster, Deadline reported.
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