Siblings Brandy and Ray J shared a tender moment on stage at a recent stop of The Boy Is Mine Tour, seemingly ending the rumors that they are estranged.
At the Atlanta show on Brandy’s tour with Monica on Oct. 31, both Brandy and Monica brought out guests to the stage. Monica brought Ludacris, Tank, Missy Elliott, and Jermaine Dupri, who hyped up the crowd with classics.
When it was Brandy’s time to call someone to perform with her, she joked she only had one person to bring out. That’s when Ray J stepped onto the stage — not to actually perform, but to hug his sister tightly as they were lowered under the stage. Afterwards, Ray J posted about the moment on X, writing “family > everything.”
A picture of their reunion follows a few years of what many believe to be a tumultuous relationship. In April, Ray J posted about how Brandy “hates who I am” on his Instagram Stories.
“My sister hates who I am!” he wrote. “And all I’m doing is being myself! I don’t know how to be better than who I am. I tried. But I get depressed trying to change when I don’t have a wife anymore and I have no stability!! I’m sorry to my sister for who I am. And my mom. I don’t give a f about nobody else’s feelings but when it’s my family it makes me feel alone.”
“So I turn up more!!” he continued. “Stay tuned — to my kids who might see this later when they are older – just know I work hard for you and only you!! – if it wasn’t for you Melody and Epik I would’ve been locked up or dead!! — I’m crashing out tonight.”
In July, Ray J spoke about loving Brandy but feeling like he was an embarrassment to her and the rest of his family during an appearance on the Drop the Lo podcast.
“I never wanted to be accepted, I just feel like I’m an embarrassment,” he said.
Later that month, Ray J appeared on the Funky Friday podcast, where he said that he doesn’t believe he’s Brandy’s brother anymore.
“You grow out of this first phase of life, and there's a second phase. In the second phase, a lot of the people in the first phase are no longer there,” he explained. “It's like, a love changes, a thug changes, and best friends become strangers, and that's not me, Nas said that.”
“It's so accurate in today's time, and as you grow people grow, and you grow away,” Ray J continued. “And when you grow away sometimes you're gone, sometimes it's done. And you try to get it back and try to understand this first wave of things, but when you're treated exactly like it was in the first wave then you understand what you have to do. So that's just where I'm at. I care, but I don't give a fuck.”