Brandy and Monica Address Past ‘Confusion and Conflict’ While Announcing ‘That Boy Is Mine’ Joint Tour

27 years after joining forces for their smash song, “The Boy Is Mine,” the pair on Tuesday announced they’re hitting the road together later this year. As for why it didn’t happen sooner … well, it sounds like their rumored beef got in the way.

In an interview with Good Morning America, the two explained why they’re launching the “That Boy is Mine” tour at this time of their lives.

“This really is a full-circle moment,” Brandy said. “They’ve been trying to get us to do a tour since 98′, and it just finally felt like the right time. It was a dream come true.”

Monica purportedly punched Brandy in the face moments before they were set to perform their hit duet, “The Boy Is Mine” at the 1998 MTV VMAs, though both denied this at the time through their respective managers. The two have since cooled whatever feud was between them, doing a Verzuz together in 2020 and appearing in Ariana Grande’s music video for her song of the same name in 2024.

“We created the communication and the relationship to do it. It’s a musical marriage. When you start to go on a tour, especially of this caliber, we have to talk about everything,” Monica said to CBS.

“It started as nothing and it really did turn into something,” she continued of their feud. “There was a lot of confusion and conflict and there was a lot of people around.”

“People forget too, I was 17, she was 18 when we did the record,” Monica continued. “People forget that you’re having this conversation about children, basically. You’re inciting a riot amongst children! We were teenagers!”

Monica also cited physical distance as a factor in why they couldn’t squash things sooner, as Brandy lived in LA and Monica was in Atlanta.

“So there was no conversation. We weren’t able to do what it is that we do now, which is really learn each other. We didn’t really know each other,” Monica explained.

The two hadn’t seen each other for years before their Verzuz battle, which paved the way for where they are now.

Tickets for the co-headlining tour — which kicks off October 16, with stops in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Atlantic City — go on sale Friday.