Brandy and Ray J melted hearts with a touching onstage moment during a recent stop on The Boy Is Mine Tour, seemingly putting to rest rumors of a rift between the famous siblings.
At the Atlanta show on Oct. 31, part of Brandy’s co-headlining tour with Monica, both singers surprised the crowd with special guests. Monica brought out Ludacris, Tank, Missy Elliott, and Jermaine Dupri to perform some of their classic hits.
When it was Brandy’s turn, she teased the audience, saying she only had one person she could bring out — moments before Ray J walked on stage. Instead of performing, he embraced his sister in a heartfelt hug as the platform lowered them beneath the stage.
After the show, Ray J shared the emotional reunion on X, writing simply, “family > everything.”
The siblings’ onstage reunion comes after years of speculation about tension between them. Earlier this year, Ray J publicly shared his struggles with their relationship, hinting that things hadn’t been easy.
Back in April, he posted on Instagram Stories, writing, “My sister hates who I am! 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.”
He went on to add, “So I turn up more!! 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.”
By July, Ray J opened up about feeling like he’d let Brandy and his family down during an interview on the Drop the Lo podcast. “I never wanted to be accepted, I just feel like I’m an embarrassment,” he admitted.
Later that month, he appeared on the Funky Friday podcast, where he spoke more candidly about their distance. “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 said. “It’s like, a love changes, a thug changes, and best friends become strangers, and that’s not me, Nas said that.”
He continued, “It’s so accurate in today’s time, and as you grow people grow, and you grow away. 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.”
