Brandy and Monica Address Feud as They Announce Joint Tour

Brandy and Monica are giving fans the ultimate 90s throwback.

Twenty-five years after the topping the charts with their hit duet, “The Boy Is Mine,” the two Grammy-winning R&B stars will close out 2025 with their first-ever co-headlining tour this fall.

The 24-city arena concert, aptly titled the Boy Is Mine Tour, will kick off in Cincinnati on Oct. 16. It will wrap on Dec. 7 in Houston, with stops along the way in Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Detroit, New Orleans and more.

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“This really is a full-circle moment,” Brandy said in a statement to the press. “Monica and I coming together again isn’t just about the music — it’s about honoring where we came from and how far we’ve both come. ‘The Boy Is Mine’ was a defining chapter in R&B, and to share the stage all these years later is bigger than a reunion; it’s a celebration of growth, sisterhood, and the love our fans have given us from day one.”

“The love that ‘The Boy Is Mine’ continues to receive means everything to me,” added Monica. “This tour is a celebration of our history, our impact, and the fans who have grown with us. Brandy and I have been on our own unique journeys, and coming back together in this way is a reminder of the power of respect, strength, and real music. We’re giving the people what they’ve been asking for, and doing it with grace, love, and purpose. God’s timing perfectly aligned us.”

Timing, it seems, was really everything in this case. Appearing together on CBS Mornings on Tuesday, June 24, Brandy called the tour “a dream come true,” saying there has been interest in the two going on the road together since 1998.

Of course, touring back then wasn’t likely, as Brandy and Monica weren’t exactly on good terms. After the release of their hit duet, the duo famously had a fight backstage while rehearsing for a performance at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. Their feud persisted for years.

“It started as nothing and it really did turn into something,” Monica said. ” There was a lot of confusion and conflict and there was a lot of people around.”

The two were also very young. “People forget too, I was 17, she was 18 when we did the record,” Monica said. “People forget that you’re having this conversation about children, basically. You’re inciting a riot amongst children! We were teenagers!”

Teenagers living in different places, too — Brandy in Los Angeles and Monica in Atlanta. “We didn’t really know each other,” Monica said.

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And then there was the song itself. “The song didn’t help either,” said Brandy. “We were fighting over a boy!”

“And we don’t even like the same type of boy,” Monica joked. “There could never have been a boy!”

After years of not talking, Brandy and Monica teamed up in 2020 for an epic Verzuz battle. The following year, they reunited for another collaboration called “It All Belongs to Me.”

In 2024, the duo made a surprise appearance in Ariana Grande’s “The Boy is Mine” music video last year. Singing on the remix, they earned a Grammy nomination.

Clear communication helped Brandy and Monica work through their misunderstandings. It’s one of the reasons the two are finally ready to do their tour.

“We created the communication and the relationship to do it. It’s a musical marriage. When you start to go on a tour, especially of this caliber, we have to talk about everything,” said Monica.

“Now we can’t stop talking!” Brandy said.

Talking together directly helped eliminate what Monica called “the peanut gallery.”

“If there’s something to discuss, we discuss it amongst each other and then we say what happens together,” she said. “And that just eliminates any confusion.”

So what are they talking about most these days? Their setlist.

“That part is hard,” Monica said on CBS Mornings. “We want to give them everything that they want, but we can’t keep you there all night. So we have to figure out a way to condense this into two hours of just a celebration of music, celebration of womanhood.”

Presale for The Boy Is Mine Tour begins at 10 a.m. ET on June 26. General tickets go on sale June 27.

Joining Brandy and Monica on the road will be Grammy winner Kelly Rowland, Muni Long and 2025 American Idol champ Jamal Roberts.