Ray J says he’s “not a brother” to Brandy anymore.
In a chaotic and confusing interview on the Funky Friday with Cam Newton podcast, Ray J made a string of contradictory statements about his relationship with his superstar sister.
Right at the top of the episode, Ray J pushed back when he was introduced as a “brother.”
“That’s a big intro, but I’m not a brother no more, man,” he said around the two-minute mark in the video below.
When Cam Newton asked Ray J to clarify his comment, the singer responded, “Just because I’m not bro.” Pressed further, he added, “I mean, I love my sister. But I don’t think I’m her brother no more.”
This led to a bizarre monologue filled with metaphors and vague explanations as Ray J spoke about being in a new “phase” of life.
“You grow out of, like, 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, like, 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, you know what I’m saying? So that’s just where I’m at, like, I care, but I don’t give a fuck.”
Newton suggested Ray J might be deflecting his feelings about Brandy, but Ray J denied it, saying he often feels excluded from family events. He recounted being told by his cousin, Brandy’s manager, that he and his 7-year-old daughter Melody Love Norwood couldn’t attend a Disney premiere featuring Brandy because it was supposedly an “18 and over” event.
On the flip side, Ray J also acknowledged how much Brandy has done for him. “I have to walk a certain line because I want everybody to know Brandy’s the first person who ever put me on, believed in me, took me out of town when I was getting in trouble,” he said. “Her and my mom brought me out on tour, saved my life, moved me to the valley, and so I’m always grateful.”
From there, Ray J doubled down on his contradictory statement, saying Brandy is his “sister” but he is “not her brother.” When Newton pushed him on the inconsistency, Ray J admitted, “I don’t know why I said that. I can’t believe I said it. I’m gonna keep it real with you, I don’t know why I said that. But I said it, so fuck it, and I meant it.”
The conversation only grew stranger as Ray J’s answers became more erratic.
At one point, when Newton asked what he was if not a brother, Ray J responded, “I’m a cunt… It means what it means, I’m a cunt.”
“I don’t know what I’m doing. I mean, right now, I didn’t know this was gonna—I don’t know how we got here,” he concluded.
