As the new jack swing king of Uptown Records, “Nite and Day” singer Al B. Sure! watched Sean “Puffy” Combs go from an intern at the label in 1990 to the A&R exec behind hit acts such as Mary J. Blige and Jodeci.
And he also saw the man who would become known as Diddy set his sights on Uptown Records‘ receptionist Kim Porter after she already had a son, Quincy, with the R&B crooner.
“He walked into the studio, and he looked over and he saw this really beautiful girl, and she was holding this really beautiful baby, and he said ‘Hey, man, I wish I had a beautiful girl like that,’ ” recalls Al B. Sure!, 56, in the new documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy,” which premieres Tuesday on Peacock.
And what Diddy wanted, Diddy got: He and Porter would go on to have a longtime relationship, which Al B. Sure! breaks his silence about with some explosive allegations in the doc that arrives while the jailed hip-hop mogul awaits trial in May on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
“Al B. Sure! is somebody who has a very complicated relationship to this story, a very personal relationship to this story,” executive producer Ari Mark exclusively told The Post. “He has a lot to say, and I think he’s working through his feelings of how he wants to say it, and who he wants to say it to.”
And so he drops some bombshells in “Making of a Bad Boy.” Al B. Sure! — who was born Albert Brown III — alleges that Porter feared for his life during her relationship with Diddy as the couple began raising Quincy together before going on to have three of their own kids.
“Kimberly said, ‘Don’t get involved. You will get killed,’ ” he claims.
“Let’s just say, you gotta listen to Kimberly. Because not only was she trying to save me but she was putting her own life in danger.”
Al B. Sure! explains that’s why he wasn’t around to raise Quincy — although he insists that his son was never adopted by Combs.
“There’s no adoption,” he says. “And if you haven’t noticed, his [last] name is still Brown.”
Still, though, the singer reveals that he remained in secret contact with Porter during their on-again, off-again relationship from 1994 to 2007.
“After Sean begins to see Kimberly, Kimberly and I remain friends,” he says. “She started to confide in me. What she did say is that, ‘Something’s not right. His soul has gone completely dark like he’s just not there.’ She made me promise on a certain Quincy Taylor Brown’s life not to ever reveal because she was in complete fear of my life.”
Meanwhile, there were whispers about the model being abused by Diddy, although there was never any evidence of domestic violence.
“One time I was called on the phone to rush over to St. Luke’s Hospital [in Manhattan],” recalls former Diddy bodyguard Gene Deal in “Making of a Bad Boy.”
“She looked like she was bruised and stuff like that, but she wasn’t saying much of nothing.”
When Porter was found dead at her home on Nov. 15, 2018, at 47, the autopsy report determined that the cause of death was lobar pneumonia.
But Al B. Sure! had “that empty feeling of like, ‘Nah, something is not right with this.’ ”
In fact, the singer had just seen Porter “looking amazing” at a screening of Quincy’s Christmas movie “The Holiday Calendar.”
“It was two or three weeks prior to her murder,” he says. “Am I supposed to say ‘allegedly’?”
The Los Angeles Police Department found no suspicion of foul play in Porter’s death, but Al B. Sure! raises doubts when he reveals that she was allegedly keeping a diary.
“Someone got the passcode to her phone and her computer, and they found out that she was writing what was going on behind closed doors,” he claims. “The public had no idea what was happening right in front of everybody’s eyes. But there was a lot of people who turned a blind eye.”
But after an alleged Porter memoir — “Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side…” — was published last year including claims of her abuse, it was denounced as “simply untrue” by her children and “fake” by Combs’ attorney, resulting in it being pulled from Amazon.
Al B. Sure! also suffered his own health crisis in July 2022, collapsing in a studio and suffering from multiple illnesses and organ failure during his hospitalization. He was eventually put into a medically induced coma and put on a ventilator for 38 days.
Again, there were conspiracy theories about Diddy being involved in the incident, although there was never any proof. But Al B. Sure! kept a record of people he claims were sent to murder him during his hospitalization.
“In hindsight, I’m glad that things transpired the way they did,” he says, “because this journey has prepared me for another level. I made a decision to go hard as it relates to opening the case on the miraculous death of Kim Porter.”
Mark added to the Post: “God knows what she endured … but I think being able to speak to her kind of courage and her trying to protect Al B. Sure! from his point of view, I think it was really interesting.”
Diddy’s attorneys responded to the accusations in the doc: “Sean Combs unequivocally denies the baseless allegations being circulated in connection with this documentary.”
“We were really careful about making sure that we weren’t saying necessarily that these things happened, or that these things are necessarily true,” Mark noted.
But, he added, “Something didn’t feel right. It felt like there’s more of a story.”
