Brandy Talks Falling In Love With Boys II Men’s Wayna, Faux Marriage & Tragic Accident On VH1′s Behind The Music

Last night, VH1 aired a revealing segment of VH1′s ‘Behind The Music’ featuring Brandy. During the hour long special, Brandy went into great detail about having to lie about her love life twice in her career, suffering from an eating disorder and her unfortunate involvement in a car crash that left a mother of two dead on a Los Angeles highway. Brandy didn’t hold much back as she revealed how she first linked up with Boyz II Men for a tour during which she fell in love with member Wanya Morris. After the two started dating, she shared her secret with management and was told the two couldn’t date publicly because he was older and it wasn’t consistent with her image. This led Brandy down a lonely, broken-hearted road that eventually became the inspiration for her sophomore album (and best album to date) ‘Never Say Never’.

Brandy went on to detail her relationship with producer Robert Smith before she got pregnant and had to lie to the public about being married to preserve her good girl image. She said that him going on Wendy Williams’ radio show and spilling the beans that it was all a lie in 2004 was a brutal blow to her, but now today she doesn’t wish it went any other way. One thing she does regret, however, was the unfortunate car crash and she detailed the effects it has had on her life and her career as well as people who taunt her about it on a daily basis.

Check out the excerpts below, plus watch the full episode below

On getting the call from Wayna Morris of Boyz II Men (who invited her on tour) 
I was like, “Wanya as in Wayna Morris of Boyz II Men is calling on this phone, really?” So we met, and of course as a 15-year-old I’m looking up at him like, “Oh, my God is this really happening?”
On falling in love with Wanya but couldn’t tell anyone
I’m just in love with somebody but can’t tell them. Too young to tell him. I can’t really tell my mom because she’ll have a heart attack as a mother and manager. What will I do?
One day I got the courage to tell Wanya how I felt. I just told him that I loved him and thanked him for making me feel the way I feel because I had never felt that way before. He was just like, ‘Wow.’ The relationship took a transition, and we became a couple. I was on a high. It was love. It was real love.
On telling her management that she was dating Wanya
Immediately everything was about my career. What are you teaching young girls? Do they fall in love at a young age? Is that wrong? Is that a sin? It just made me feel like I was all by myself and that whatever I’m feeling personally is going to have to be put to the side.
[ --they had to keep their relationship a secret. For 2 years they carried on an intense secret relationship. She couldn’t hold hands, give a smooch or anything the people our age dating would normally do.]
On breaking up with Wayna
He fell in love with someone else. The worst feeling is to be in love all by yourself. That feels f*cked up, honestly. It does and that’s the only way I can really put it. It felt like somebody had completely taken my heart out of my body and just crushed it.
On created the Never Say Never album after her break-up with Wanya
It wasn’t about just getting great songs and riding the charts. It was I need to get some sh*t off my chest. It was me really coming into my own and not being afraid to be vulnerable. Not be afraid to sing what I felt for real.
On breaking the news to her family she was pregnant by Robert Smith after they had been dating a whileThat was something that was not okay for the Brandy brand. That wasn’t cool. I was raised with the Christian foundation that it’s a sin to get pregnant out of wedlock, that’s not allowed so I was scared. I didn’t know what to do.
Everybody around me is trying to force me to get married and so I said, “Why don’t I just say I’m married? Because I don’t want to get married. So why don’t I just say it.” It was the biggest mistake I had ever made.

Brandy on Robert outing her on Wendy Williams and revealing that they were never married
If I was woman enough to lay down and get pregnant by someone then I should’ve been woman enough to admit that that’s what took place. I’m telling my team and everybody around me I have to say I’m sorry. “No, no, no you can’t say that you’re sorry. We have to twist this and turn it. Although, at the time I wished that he would’ve taken a different approach but I’m glad he didn’t looking back because to be able to tell that truth and to now live that truth with a beautiful daughter at my hip, I feel much better about myself that I can come clean and say ’I was afraid. I was scared. I was lost. I didn’t know what to do.”
The lie about being married was the fall of my career. Everything changed. Everything changed.

On her involvement in a tragic car accident
The day the accident happened it was just a gloomy, gloomy day. Something wasn’t right in the air. I was just driving home, and it happened. It was a blur, and it was one of those experiences that you wish would never happen to anybody. But it did, and it was one of the worst times in my life.
Someone lost their life and now everyone is saying that I’m the one to blame. Regardless if it was my fault or not my fault, I was involved in something that caused someone their life. Whoever’s fault it was, I was in it.
I would hear what people would say and still to this day people know that that’s a button. They know that they can call me a murderer or call me someone that killed someone. They know that that is a button for me. A murderer is someone who premeditates it. I didn’t wake up that day to be involved in a fatal car crash. I didn’t plan for that, and if I could take it back I would.
[--In December of 2007 after a year long investigation prosecutors found that it was insufficient evidence to charge Brandy with any crimes.]
I just wanted people to know that this wasn’t news. It’s not something that should be talked about like it’s gossip. If you don’t like me, fine. But don’t use this situation to try to hurt me because the guilt of being involved is enough and it’s something that I will never truly, truly get over ever.

props:  Necole Bitchie.com 

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Brandy Ft. Chris Brown – Put It Down

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Brandy is back with, Put It Down,” featuring Chris Brown.

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New Video: Brandy & Monica – “It All Belongs To Me”

Brandy and Monica’s video for “It All Belongs To Me”, their first pair-up since their top-selling 1998 smash “The Boy Is Mine”, is pretty much a straight forward visual that plays on the ladies’ man-sassin’ lyrics. In one tongue-in-cheek scene, Brandy dumps her man, instructs her ex to log off his Facebook, then changes the status on her own account to single. Use yourMacBook (which Brandy and Monica will likely say belongs to them) to head below and watch the vid.

Brandy & Monica — ”It All Belongs To Me”

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Audio: Brandy & Monica – It All Belongs To Me

Brandy and Monica follow up, “The Boy Is Mine,” with, “It All Belongs To Me.”

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Producer Rico Love Dishes On Brandy & Monica’s Duet: ‘It Will Be A Shocker’

Now that Brandy and Monica have revealed that they have reunited for a new track, the anticipation is unbearable. Come with it already!

We’ve all seen the pics of the two in the studio, now producer Rico Love is dishing out more tea on what to expect from the new collaboration, ‘It All Belongs To Me’, which will be released on February 6th. He recently sat down with ‘Rap Up‘ and discussed what it was like in the studio the day the two recorded the track as well as the pressure of doing a follow up to their first duet, ‘The Boy Is Mine’ which spent 13 weeks at number #1 back in 1998.

On Recording with both Brandy and Monica
It was a really interesting situation because of the history that was in the room and the energy was so positive. It was electric. I really wanted to try my best to pull the most explosive vocals out of them. I wanted to create a story that picked up where “The Boy Is Mine” left off. It kinda carried on the next part of the story, just showing their growth and their maturity, and making it real and true to both singers. It was an amazing energy, an amazing vibe. The girls were all positive. It was just fun. We had a great time and I learned so much from both of them during the session.

On how the duet came together
It was Monica’s idea originally because Monica heard the record and she was so excited about it. She was like, “Yo, I really think that this should be that thing, that next duet.”

On what we should expect from the track
It’s a very soulful R&B song with pop sensibilities. I wanted to make sure I made it a classic R&B record, but I definitely wanted to make sure that it had enough appeal to cross over and become a Top 40 record. I wanted to include Beatles-sounding guitars. I made sure the melody was big enough for all genres and just a strong powerful vocal performance and strong content. I really don’t wanna give away too much because they wanna keep it under wraps as far as the title and the subject, but I can just say that it’s a very strong vocal that I got out of these girls and it’s a very strong subject. To say the least, it will be a shocker.

On whose album the track will appear on
I believe it’s going to be on both of theirs, but obviously Monica [New Life] is coming out sooner than Brandy, so I believe it’s going to be on hers first. We did alternate versions for both girls’ albums. So the version that is on Monica’s album won’t be the version on Brandy’s album. Same song with slightly different things.

Read more over at Rap Up

In 2010, Brandy and Monica gushed over each other and disclosed that they really wanted to do another duet in an interview with Hip Hollywood. Check that out below:

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Brandy Sings “His Eye Is On The Sparrow”

Brandy recently showed that she had some church-approved, floor stomping, ‘girl you better SANG THAT’ soul when she gave a rendition of “His Eye Is On The Sparrow” at this year’s Sing-A-Rama event in Los Angeles. The crowd ate up Brandy’s short performance yelling “yes” at every rest in the song.

She gave a strong effort, executing some vocal runs and being careful not to do too much to ruin it. And she definitely got the message home. Brandy is an annual performer at her father Willie Norwood’s gospel event, which is in its fifth year and serves as a workshop and forum for aspiring gospel singers.
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Audio: Brandy - Silent Night

A few weeks ago this song, Silent Night, hit the internet in the form of a short clip. We now have the full song and love what we’re hearing. Check out the song below and let us know, is Brandy on the trail of bringing back R&B?

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