What do you do when you are two young, talented, R&B singers and everybody in the world things you have a rivalry? Well, you do an awesome collaboration to shut the haters up!

Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" was huge in 1998 partly due to the rumored feud between the two. The song is about two women who are in love with the same guy. It is said to be inspired by another iconic duet, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney's "The Girl Is Mine."

The song was the first single for both performers' albums, Brandy's Never Say Never and Monica's The Boy Is Mine.

The song was huge, there's just no other way to say it. "The Boy Is Mine" became the best-selling song of the year in the US, spending 13 weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 1998 according to Wikipedia.

The video was also huge. It features Mekhi Phifer as 'the boy.' Brandy and Monica are neighbors and then eventually they become allies against 'the boy'. The fashion in the video looks like something out of a Delia's catalog. 1998 for sure.

The song received many awards as stated on Wikipedia,

 "The Boy Is Mine" was awarded the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group and received nominations for both Record of the Year and Best R&B Song in 1999. The video was nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year and Best R&B Video. To date, their performance at the 1998 VMAs ceremony, held on September 10, 1998 in the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, remains Brandy and Monica's only television broadcast performance of the song.


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