Brandy and Eve deserved so much more with 'Queens'
TUBI reminds 'Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business' viewers about slept-on Bran'Nu
When “Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business” premiered in 2010, I was not even slightly surprised by Ray J’s friends scheduling a stripper to appear in his office. I was amused (but not shocked) to learn that MC Lyte and Brandy had more in common than the “I Wanna Be Down (Remix)” — both of them love checking out a “ruffneck.” (In the first four episodes, Brandy went from being smitten with Flo Rida to sneaking flirty glances at The Game.)
Recommended Read: "MC Lyte still a rock in the rap industry," Chicago Defender, March 4-10, 2009, Volume CIII, Number 44
But what kept throwing me off when the brother-sister reality show first aired was Brandy’s persistence with having a rap career. I didn’t get the point of Bran’Nu at all.
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I wasn’t totally opposed to R&B singers dabbling in hip-hop. Chris Brown released “Deuces” the same year this reality show premiered, and he firmly proved you can be as skilled in one genre as you are the other. (And then those two collaborated on the phenomenal hit “Put It Down,” and he rapped again.)
At the time, though, I just couldn’t wrap my mind around Bran’Nu. Then here comes ABC’s “Queens” in 2021 to make me go, “Wait, what? When did Brandy start really rapping? How is she giving Eve of all femcees a run for her lyrical money?”
Why can’t I stop watching this rap battle between the two? And how were so many people on Twitter debating who won this battle when we already know Eve has put in work since her days being a “pit bull in a skirt”?