Grammy-Nominated R&B Legend Al B. Sure! Finally Tells His Incredible Story in His Own Words

Simon & Schuster announced that it is publishing DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? by Grammy-nominated R&B legend Al B. Sure!.  Sure! tells all in this inspiring survivor’s memoir that reveals the untold story of his 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. The book publishes on September 9, 2025 in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, with the author narrating the audio edition. 

Days after Homeland Security raided Sean Combs’s compounds in a federal sex-trafficking investigation, the multiplatinum R&B legend Al B. Sure! declared that when people heard how he wound up in a coma two years earlier, they were “really going to need to call Homeland Security.”

Al B.’s remarks set off a media firestorm as speculation swirled about possible connections between his life-threatening medical crisis and Sean Combs. The connections run deep—Al B. Sure!’s ex-wife Kim Porter became Combs’s longtime girlfriend and mother to three of his children before her mysterious 2018 death. Al B. Sure! and Kim’s son Quincy Brown’s open letter praising Combs as a father figure sparked a media frenzy, as did Al B.’s calls for an investigation into Porter’s death.

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. People called him crazy. Now, back from the brink of death, he reclaims his power and truth after years of being gaslit.

This remarkable story transcends Al B.’s health crisis. It chronicles his journey from the tough streets of Money Earnin’ Mt. Vernon to New Jack Swing stardom, as well as his influential role as the first platinum selling artist, and the first artist to reach #1 on Billboard’s R&B charts at Uptown Records—where Combs got his start in the industry as an intern. But of the small group of key figures who were there at Uptown’s founding, Sure! is one of the few still living to tell the whole story. 

Al B. Sure! has never shared the full extent of what he has seen and experienced—until now. DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? is a captivating memoir about one man’s journey to finding inner peace despite countless attempts to break him.

Stuart Roberts, Vice President and Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster, acquired World Rights, first serial rights, and audiobook rights from Marc Gerald at Europa Content.  

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Al B. Sure! is a globally celebrated singer, songwriter, and producer with multiple RIAA-certified multiplatinum albums, American Music Award, Soul Train Awards, and multiple Grammy nominations. His 1988 Warner Brothers breakout single Nite N’ Day propelled his debut album In Effect Mode to the top of Billboard Magazine’s R&B charts for seven straight weeks. A pivotal ambassador of New Jack Swing, he has worked with some of the most acclaimed artists and producers of our time, including the late Quincy Delight Jones Jr., Usher, Diana Ross, Tevin Campbell, Faith Evans, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Michael McDonald, JODECI, and more. In October 2022, Sure! miraculously woke up from a two-month coma having endured multi-system organ failure, a thirty-eight-day stint on a ventilator, and a medical crisis that placed him on kidney dialysis and required a liver transplant. Still recovering from this medical tsunami, Al B. Sure! has dedicated his life to advocating in Halls of Congress for equal access to quality healthcare for the underserved communities in America. He is the Executive Chairman of the Health Equity in Transplantation Coalition, and recently coauthored transplant legislation for the State of Texas focused on protecting the rights of heroes that checked the “Organ Donor” boxes on their driver’s licenses. IG: @officialalbsure 
 
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