Brandyis following through on her playful promise to “murk"Jack Harlow"on his own beats.”
In a new freestyle track premiered during Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning radio show on Wednesday, the 43-year-old Grammy winner rapped confident lyrics over the beat of Harlow’s chart-topping “First Class” — two weeks after the 24-year-old rapper learned she wasRay J’s sister ina viral clip from an interview on the same radio program.
“Welcome back,” says Brandy in the response track’s intro, which samplesFergie’s2006 hit “Glamorous” featuringLudacris. “You forgot about me?”
Uploaded to the radio show’sSoundCloudpage, the freestyle’s lyrics see the “I Wanna Be Down” musician remind Harlow why she’s become a household name since her 1994 debut: “Allow me to reintroduce myself / My name is world-famous, one of the greatest / Living legend, did I mention my résumé is amazing?”
Jack Harlow and Brandy.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic, Leon Bennett/STA 2020/Getty
Elsewhere in the first verse, she nods to the cancellation of ABC’sQueens— in which she played a girl group member alongsideEve,Naturi Naughton, and Nadine Velazquez — and name-drops her 1999 hit"Angel in Disguise,“which Harlow notably didn’t recognize when it was played during his recent Hot 97 interview.
“Queens’canceled but you could never cancel a queen / Crown concrete stone / An angel in disguise, I roam the earth, God,” raps Brandy. “Like the son of Jehovah’s own / I bear witness to my second coming.”
Other lyrics on the response track find Brandy referencing her hit ’90s sitcomMoeshaand 41-year-old “brother Ray J” — a clear clap back to the viral clip of Harlow learning they’re siblings on-air.
“Who’s Ray J’s sister?” asked Harlow,Jeopardystyle. “I didn’t know they were siblings. Who is it?”
Jack Harlow, Ray J, Brandy.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Brian Stukes/WireImage
“Brandy and Ray J are siblings? Nobody’s ever told me that in my life. Nobody’s ever told me that,” replied Harlow, visibly shocked. “Y’all got a good clip off that one. Ray J and Brandy are siblings? I had no idea, bruh.”
Harlow’s prediction came true, as the interview clip went viral on social media, prompting aresponse from Brandy herself. Replying to a fan’s repost of theHot 97video, the “I Wanna Be Down” singer tweeted, “I will murk this dude in rap at 43 on his own beats and then sing [his] ass to sleep.”
“See, I can have a little fun too,” continued Brandy in a follow-up tweet. “hehe…all love.”
While many fans responded in jest to Brandy’s tongue-in-cheek tweet, one fan replied, “Not you sat on this for a few days and now deciding to reply after it died downit’s not that deep.
Ensuring her followers understood the lighthearted nature of her tweet, Brandy posted back to the fan. “I know I’m mad late… but it was a joke.I didn’t know he rappedso I was just Poking,” she wrote on Twitter. “but I see now this was a big thing a few days ago.”
source: people.com
