Brandy and Monica reflect on infamous feud ahead of joint tour

Had enough, it is not difficult to see: there is only love between Monica and Brandy.

The R&B icons, which dominated the charts with their 1998 duo “The Boy is mine”, stopped by CBS Mornings Tuesday before their first joint tour to think about their quarrel of several decades and buried the ax of war by open communication.

“They have tried to have a tour since 1998,” Brandy told Gayle King and Company of his very first co-font tour with Monica, named after their successful duo and should launch in the fall. “It was finally the right time.”

It also looked like at the right time because the duo “created communication and the relationship to do so,” added Monica. “It’s a musical marriage. When you start to tour, especially this caliber, we have to talk about everything.” She then referred to their Record Battle of Verzuz in 2020, calling her the first time she and Brandy have been seen in the middle of the beef, when the subject turned into a quarrel.

“Is there never a quarrel at the time that was created by the media or started as nothing but turned into something?” King asked.

“It started as nothing and it really turned into something,” said Monica, referring to the external forces that led to the conflict. “The reason why I insisted so much that we communicate directly is that you withdraw the whole peanut gallery from the conversation.”

Monica added: “If there is something to discuss, we discuss it between others … And that simply eliminates all confusion. There was a lot of confusion and conflicts and there were a lot of people around these first days.

Brandy joked, “The song did not help either. We were fighting for a boy.”

Monica also took note of how it was asinin for the industry to put two teenagers against each other. “I was 18, she was 17 when we made the file,” she said. “People forget that you have this conversation on children, basically. You encourage a riot among the children! We were teenagers … We didn’t really know each other.”

The quarrel between young stars began to follow the release of “The Boy is mine”, which also fueled the story of a rivalry given the object to fight for a boy. Rumors reached a fever field after Record producer Dallas Austin said he saw Monica Punch Brandy behind the scenes during a prize ceremony before a success of their successful song.

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Brandy’s brother, his colleague artist J, also said that the quarrel was “100% real”, citing competitiveness to have opposed each other. Anyway, they would collaborate again on the song of 2012 “It all belongs to me”, and their famous battle of Verzuz turned out to be cordial, the two addressing the past tensions but congratulating themselves largely, although there was a certain perceived clumsy.

The duo, which recently gathered again for the Remix of Ariana Grande in 2024 of “The Boy is mine”, confirmed on CBS that the drama was far behind them. “Now we cannot stop talking,” said Brandy about their friendship and their next tour, which they have greeted as a “music celebration” as well as “the celebration of femininity”.

Alongside the Kelly Rowland special guests, MONNI LONG AND American idol The winner Jamal Roberts, Brandy and the Arena 24-City of Monica will start on October 16 in Cincinnati and ends on December 7 in Houston.