After a long history suggesting this could never happen, iconic Grammy Award-winning artists Brandy and Monica are teaming up for the first time to embark on a 24-city arena run.
The highly anticipated The Boy Is Mine Tour, named after their 1998 game-changing duet which spent a record-shattering 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, is officially on.
Joining them on the road is a powerhouse lineup of special guests: Grammy-winning superstar Kelly Rowland, chart-topping singer-songwriter and Grammy winner Muni Long, and rising star Jamal Roberts, fresh off his 2025 “American Idol” Season 23 win.
“This really is a full-circle moment,” Brandy said. “Monica and I coming together again isn’t just about the music — it’s about honoring where we came from and how far we’ve both come. ‘The Boy Is Mine’ was a defining chapter in R&B, and to share the stage all these years later is bigger than a reunion — it’s a celebration of growth, sisterhood and the love our fans have given us from day one.”
Added Monica: “The love that ‘The Boy Is Mine’ continues to receive means everything to me. This tour is a celebration of our history, our impact and the fans who have grown with us. Brandy and I have been on our own unique journeys, and coming back together in this way is a reminder of the power of respect, strength and real music. We’re giving the people what they’ve been asking for, and doing it with grace, love and purpose. God’s timing perfectly aligned us.”
Tickets for the tour, produced by the Black Promoters Collective, (including a Nov. 9 date at Kia Forum) go on sale June 27, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.com. Presales begin June 26 from 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. local time via the code BPC.
TICKET WATCH: Grammy Award-winning global icon Burna Boy will celebrate his eagerly awaited eighth studio album, “No Sign Of Weakness,” with an epic 16-city North American headline tour arriving at Inglewood’s Intuit Dome on Nov. 19. Tickets for this jaunt, that will feature the Nigerian artist performing on a 360-degree stage in the middle of the floor, go on sale via Ticketmaster on June 24 at 10 a.m. For more details, visit onaspaceship.com/tour.
REDUX: The Pan African Film & Arts Festival announced the return of its highly anticipated Artfest to its original home at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. Originally slated to take place in February alongside the Pan African Film Festival, the annual edition was postponed following the devastating wildfires that swept through California in January. The Artfest will now take place Aug. 21–24, bringing the celebration of Black art, culture and creativity back to the heart of South Los Angeles.
CLIPPETTES: Comic Nate Jackson’s Super Funny World Tour arrives to The Wiltern on June 27, as Kamasi Washington continues his historic installation at David Geffen Galleries LACMA for its last two nights …
Malik Books hosts multi-Grammy-award winning artist and songwriter Victoria Monét for a meet-and-greet surrounding her debut children’s book “Everywhere You Are” on June 28 at 3 p.m. …
Later, The Stowaway holds Singer/Songwriter Night with Maritri and special guest Gary Dourdan and SoFi Stadium hosts The Weeknd: After Hours Til Dawn Tour with Playboi Carti and Mike Dean for the first of two evenings …
Cory Henry Presents: The Church Experience on June 28 at the Miracle Theater as rapper Key Glock’s Glockaveli Tour comes to the Hollywood Palladium …
June 30 belongs to comic actor Deon Cole as he works out new material at The Improv …
Lil Baby kicks off the month with a July 1 date at Intuit Dome while Lil Rel Howery’s Rel Talk Tuesdays with special guest Cousin Tiera is happening at The Upstairs LA …
The three-night July Fourth Fireworks Spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl with Earth, Wind & Fire begins July 2, which also finds David Ryan Harris at The Hotel Café.
TASTY QUIP: “A lot of you entertainers just got bad f—ing habits. Cut it out. Ain’t nobody trying to take y’all down. When people say it’s a shakedown, sure, but don’t give them nothing to shake. Make better choices. It’s really just that simple. At some point you got to have accountability and stop pointing fingers and blaming everything on the system or the white man. We’ll name all of those people in the entertainment space, in the sports space, and then try to lump them in with people who actually were really changing the world. Yeah, have we seen this system take down Black people before? Of course, that’s what Cointelpro was, all of that. That’s what J. Edgar Hoover specialized in, absolutely. But a lot of these entertainers, they’re just making poor choices.” — CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD to Rolling Stone
TC ON TV: June 27 – “Smoke” (Apple TV+): A new fact-based crime drama executive produced by and starring Taron Egerton as an enigmatic arson investigator who teams with a troubled detective (Jurnee Smollett) to pursue the trails of two serial arsonists. With Adina Porter, John Leguizamo, and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (Ronnie on “The Chi,” “The Lincoln Lawyer”). “The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” (MAX): The castoff movie that had audiences laughing in the theaters makes its streaming debut. “The Woman In The Yard” (Peacock): Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”) leads this chiller thriller about an apparition getting closer to the house by the day. “Squid Game: Season 3” (Netflix): The deadly competition comes to its final match. “Please Don’t Feed The Children” (Tubi): Destry Allyn Spielberg, daughter of Stephen Spielberg, makes her directorial debut with this post-apocalypse horror film set in a not-so-distant future starring Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”), Giancarlo Esposito (“Better Call Saul”) and Zoe Colletti (“Only Murders In The Building”). “Live with Kelly & Mark” (ABC): Anika Noni Rose, Richard Gere “The View” (ABC): Anthony Ramos (“Ironheart”)
June 29 – “2025 New York City Pride Parade” (Hulu): A livestream of the event with Karine Jean Pierre among its grand marshals to be followed by one for the “2025 San Francisco Pride Parade,” considered one of the largest, and longest pride parades in the world. “Nautilus” (AMC): Inspired by Jules Verne‘s beloved “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” this fanciful new series follows the adventures of iconic Captain Nemo (Shazad Latif): an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.
June 30 – “Global Soul Kitchen” (FYI): Chef Deborah VanTrece closes her second season by making Chicken Fricassee and Deep South Bouillabaisse.
July 1 – “Live with Kelly & Mark” (ABC): Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear”)
July 2 – “Heads of State” (Prime Video): The UK Prime Minister (Idris Elba) and U.S. President (John Cena) have a public rivalry that risks their countries’ alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, they’re forced to rely on each other as they go on a wild, multinational run. With Priyanka Chopra Jonas as a brilliant MI6 agent who attempts to protect them. “The Old Guard 2” (Netflix): A sequel five years in the making bringing back Andy (Charlize Theron) and her team of immortal warriors (including Kiki Layne) to face a powerful new foe (Uma Thurman) threatening their mission to protect humanity. “Live with Kelly & Mark” (ABC): Wayne Brady
July 3 – “Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League” (MAX): A DC anime sequel pitting a reimagined Dark Knight versus an Asian take on the Justice League. “Duster” (MAX): This breezy dramedy ends its first season with hopes of another run.
END QUOTE: “My f—— psychiatrist has seen me through all of it’ What you’re going through isn’t normal,’ that sentence did such wonders for me in multiple situations in my life. I think a victim mindset is a choice, and I don’t choose it. I also don’t choose nastiness in the face of it. I don’t choose negativity in the face of it. I choose positivity and light and happiness. And I do believe at times, happiness is absolutely a choice, and every day I wake up and I think I’m very lucky to live the life I live.” – RACHEL ZEGLER,” currently starring to raves in “Evita” on the London stage, to i-D on backlash from her pro-Palestine tweet which may have sunk Disney’s Snow White remake
As featured in the Los Angeles Wave and Independent, Tasty Clips is one of the leading entertainment columns in the nation, serving nearly one million weekly readers. Bill Vaughan may be reached at tastyclips@yahoo.com, via Twitter @tastyclips, or Instagram @tasty_clips.
