now-disgraced Brian McKnight<\/a>. However, it was Beyonc\u00e9 as the lead vocalist of Destiny\u2019s Child, one day shy of her 17th birthday, who ended up a big winner of the night by nabbing three awards as a group for the combined efforts of their R&B chart-topper debut single, \u201cNo No No,\u201d and sleeper hit self-titled debut album. It would be the first of many accolades to come in the immediate years following for her quartet, who soon became a trio before she finally branched out as a solo star in her own right. <\/p>\nBrandy on the other hand moved the needle slightly beyond her quadruple platinum 1994 self-titled debut and aforementioned sophomore success in 1998, the 79th best-selling album of the 1990s for going quintuple platinum in just over a year no less. After the 2002 release of her fan-favorite third offering, Full Moon, the Moesha star\u2019s career suffered a notable decline that coincided ironically enough with Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s rise as the top-selling female artist of the 2000s.<\/p>\n
As the debate gets boiling hot amongst fans on both sides, some even going low by arguing who the true Vocal Bible is, we can only hope a flick of these two pops up on the \u2018Gram at some point in the immediate future \u2014 for the sake of Ray J, at least!<\/p>\n
See the conversation happening on social media below on the brewing beef between the \u201cB\u2019s of R&B,\u201d and let us know where you fall in the \u2018Beyonc\u00e9 vs. Brandy\u2019 debate:<\/p>\n
1. No shade but I kinda don\u2019t give af Beyonc\u00e9 does or does not like brandy. Like okay so??? What now.\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n
via @stallinek0<\/p>\n
2. Beyonc\u00e9 got tf when she saw Brandy approaching I\u2019m crying\u2026 \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n
via @DiaryOfKeysus<\/p>\n
3. Genuinely believe that Bey and Jay have complexes where they can\u2019t handle someone else being regarded as more talented than them. And while that is cute for the sake of competition, when it\u2019s overdone, it\u2019s very off putting to many people. Their brands are suffering from it too.<\/p>\n
via @Nightshawn101<\/p>\n
4. Michelle didnt take pics with Brandy either oop<\/p>\n
via @TrellBeyloved<\/p>\n
5. Why is Ray J on Brandy\u2019s phone leaving comments on a Beyonc\u00e9 fan page trying to start trouble?<\/p>\n
via @TheRocSupremacy<\/p>\n
6. Since Ray J got people focused on Beyonce and Brandy then lets talk about how Rihanna got everybody together for a group picture \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n
via @freakymarko<\/p>\n
7. I\u2019m not arguing with no one over Brandy or Beyonc\u00e9. Them my queens them my girls or whatever Yung Miami said.<\/p>\n
via @bigfairee<\/p>\n
8. Brandy came to the Renaissance, enjoyed the show, took photos, and left. No one complained. <\/p>\n
Beyonc\u00e9 came to The Boy Is Mine to support her sister, took photos with Monica, Patti Labelle, and Solange and it still wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n
They never let Beyonc\u00e9 just exist.<\/p>\n
via @LeosCalvinJames<\/p>\n
9. Yall really let Ray J spark beef between Brandy and Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s fanbases just to distract from his arrest for making criminal threats with a gun to Princess Love. Some of yall are too easily distracted.<\/p>\n
via @TheKempire<\/p>\n
10. brandy when she finally catches beyonc\u00e9<\/p>\n
via @ericabankheads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After everything that Brandy and Monica, two pioneers of the \u201990s R&B era who once saw themselves at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5859,13604,27232,33994,9,24,63,122,124,123,33995],"class_list":{"0":"post-65123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-beef","9":"tag-beyonce","10":"tag-brandy","11":"tag-music-beef","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-reactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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