After all the things that Brandy and Monica, two pioneers of the ’90s R&B period who as soon as noticed themselves at odds, needed to get by way of personally as a way to at the moment come collectively as a duo for his or her well-received The Boy Is Mine Tour, no person would’ve thought that it will end in but one other beef with certainly one of their chanteuse contemporaries.
Particularly when that chanteuse simply so occurs to be Beyoncé.
The viral video seen above making its approach round social media over the weekend stems from the unique assertion that made headlines not too way back by Brandy’s wild youngster brother, Ray J. The truth TV sensation said that Beyoncé attending The Boy Is Mine Tour on a number of events and making zero interplay with one of many two main women has began to really feel intentional. As everyone knows, Bey has been there in assist of her Future’s Youngster bandmate Kelly Rowland, who’s the core opening act alongside a rotating lineup of revered vocalists together with Keyshia Cole, Coco Jones, Muni Lengthy, American Idol winner Jamal Roberts and fellow ’90s modern R&B queen, Mya.
Some have argued that Beyoncé isn’t required to do something besides benefit from the present, very like Brandy did just a few years prior when she attended The RENAISSANCE World Tour along with her daughter, Sy’Rai, on Beyoncé’s forty second birthday at that. Others really feel like pettiness may be at play given her willingness to pose it up backstage with the opposite star of the tour, Monica.
Satirically sufficient, there’s a number of decades-worth of photographs exhibiting Beyoncé and Monica being as pleasant as one would count on from trade friends of the identical period.
Given that each one this began over a easy {photograph}, it’s fascinating to find that in nearly three a long time of being in the identical trade and having a handful of mutual mates, notably Kelly Rowland, you’d be hard-pressed to search out one good picture of Beyoncé and Brandy in the identical room collectively. We tried and got here up at greatest with the photograph seen beneath, captured on September 3, 1998 backstage on the Woman of Soul Awards in Los Angeles.
On the time, the 19-year-old By no means Say By no means singer may very well be thought of the larger star of the 2, co-hosting the occasion alongside LL Cool J and the now-disgraced Brian McKnight. Nevertheless, it was Beyoncé because the lead vocalist of Future’s Youngster, someday shy of her seventeenth birthday, who ended up an enormous winner of the evening by nabbing three awards as a gaggle for the mixed efforts of their R&B chart-topper debut single, “No No No,” and sleeper hit self-titled debut album. It might be the primary of many accolades to return within the quick years following for her quartet, who quickly grew to become a trio earlier than she lastly branched out as a solo star in her personal proper.
Brandy then again moved the needle barely past her quadruple platinum 1994 self-titled debut and aforementioned sophomore success in 1998, the 79th best-selling album of the Nineties for going quintuple platinum in simply over a yr no much less. After the 2002 launch of her fan-favorite third providing, Full Moon, the Moesha star’s profession suffered a notable decline that coincided sarcastically sufficient with Beyoncé’s rise because the top-selling feminine artist of the 2000s.
As the talk will get boiling sizzling amongst followers on either side, some even going low by arguing who the true Vocal Bible is, we will solely hope a flick of those two pops up on the ‘Gram in some unspecified time in the future within the quick future — for the sake of Ray J, no less than!
See the dialog taking place on social media beneath on the brewing beef between the “B’s of R&B,” and tell us the place you fall within the ‘Beyoncé vs. Brandy’ debate:
1. No shade however I kinda don’t give af Beyoncé does or doesn’t like brandy. Like okay so??? What now.😭😭
by way of @stallinek0
2. Beyoncé acquired tf when she noticed Brandy approaching I’m crying… 😭
by way of @DiaryOfKeysus
3. Genuinely consider that Bey and Jay have complexes the place they’ll’t deal with another person being thought to be extra gifted than them. And whereas that’s cute for the sake of competitors, when it’s overdone, it’s very off placing to many individuals. Their manufacturers are affected by it too.
by way of @Nightshawn101
4. Michelle didnt take pics with Brandy both oop
by way of @TrellBeyloved
5. Why is Ray J on Brandy’s cellphone leaving feedback on a Beyoncé fan web page making an attempt to start out bother?
by way of @TheRocSupremacy
6. Since Ray J acquired folks targeted on Beyonce and Brandy then lets speak about how Rihanna acquired all people collectively for a gaggle image ❤️
by way of @freakymarko
7. I’m not arguing with nobody over Brandy or Beyoncé. Them my queens them my women or no matter Yung Miami stated.
by way of @bigfairee
8. Brandy got here to the Renaissance, loved the present, took images, and left. Nobody complained.
Beyoncé got here to The Boy Is Mine to assist her sister, took images with Monica, Patti Labelle, and Solange and it nonetheless wasn’t sufficient.
They by no means let Beyoncé simply exist.
by way of @LeosCalvinJames
9. Yall actually let Ray J spark beef between Brandy and Beyoncé’s fanbases simply to distract from his arrest for making prison threats with a gun to Princess Love. A few of yall are too simply distracted.
by way of @TheKempire
10. brandy when she lastly catches beyoncé
by way of @ericabankheads
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