Brandy's Raw Memoir: Phases

0:00It's March 31st. Welcome to Music News today, powered by AI and tuned in to what's next. Brandy just dropped her memoir, Faises, and it's packed with raw trues from her 47 years in the game. Fresh off getting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame back in March, she's owning her ups and downs from music highs to personal lows. She calls it a fearless dive into vulnerability, spilling on everything from industry beef to heartbreak. One big reveal hits the 90s feud with Monica. Brandy says Clive Davis blindsided her by renaming Monica's album after their duet, The Boy Is Mine, trying to make it Monica's thing. They squast her recently with a joint tour. She also sets the record straight on dating Boy's two men's Wanyu Morris at 16. He was her first, but she now sees how he took advantage after, catching him cheating. Brandy gets real about teen struggles too, like battling bulimia under Hollywood pressure and an abusive relationship. She loved playing Moisha at first for that normal teen vibe, but by season five she hated the

1:04perfect character who always had the answers. Then there's faking a marriage, before her daughter Syri arrived in 2002, which blew up her image. The darkest chapter covers her deep depression after that fatal 2007 car crash, feeling she didn't deserve joy while the victim. Couldn't, her daughter pulled her through. She shares early fears for brother Ray Jay, spotting gang signs in his clothes, forcing a family move. FaZe's wraps with a haunting last call to Winnie Houston days before her death in 2012, Brandy venting career fears Winnie promising. Better days. It's a powerful read we shaping her story out now everywhere.