Monica said in an interview with HuffPost Live to promote her new album, Code Red. When host Alex Miranda asked if the song was inspired by talk show host Jerry Springer, Monica said Brandy used to love Springer and pointed out his appearance in the beginning of the music video. “We played up the dramatics of it all, but I’m like, ‘Guys, we were 16 and 17.’ We’re 35 and 36 now. There was no boy and no beef.”
I think they meant there was no beef over a boy in real life. Who thought that anyway? Why would two people fighting over the same guy get buddy buddy and make a song about it? Lol
Monica was saying that AT FIRST there was no beef, but they both started feeding into it after people created beef because of the song. They did get into a physical altercation, but they moved past it.