Brandy Reveals That During an Argument, Darkchild Told Brandy, "Go Do What You're Gonna Do While I Go Sell 5 Million Records with Beyoncé"

Brandy describes the moment she realized her working relationship with Darkchild had come to an end in new memoir ‘Phases’:

“We were going at it like usual, the way siblings do when they know exactly which buttons to push. Only this time, he looked me dead in the eye and said, ‘Go do what you're gonna do while I go sell 5 MILLION records with Beyoncé.’ The words landed like a gut punch. I stormed out of the studio; humiliation burned through me like a wildfire. Left behind in the ashes was a sad realization that it was time for me to move on.”

“Him working with other artists wasn’t an issue for me," she continued. "I was exceptionally proud of what he built with Darkchild. I celebrated every one of his victories as if it were my own. But the pride got harder to hold when I started to hear our sound, my sound echoing from the sound of their other women—the same intricate vocal arrangements with stacked harmonies that have been my signature. The same song structure, the same approach we innovated on ‘Never Say Never’ and ‘Full Moon’. At first, I told myself I was being sensitive and petty, even. ‘This is the business,’ I whispered to myself. Nobody owns sound [until he refuses to let me use them on my own songs].”

Here are more takeaways from brandy's memoir...

• Darkchild is grimy as shit. told brandy, "go do what you're gonna do while i go sell 5 million records with beyoncé" during an argument.

• Darkchild was using their trademark sound for other artists, showed beats (that ended up hits) to brandy and told her "no" when she asked to use them.

• Clive davis instigated the brandy/monica tension by changing monica's album title to "the boy is mine".

• Brandy and michael jackson were working on "full moon" & "invincible" next door to each other, and he was giving her pointers for her music.

• Atlantic forced her to work with kanye west on 'afrodisiac' even though she wanted to fully work with timbaland.

• Atlantic was trying to court kanye at the peak of his success and forced 'talk about our love' as the lead single.

• Kanye west & brandy had creative differences. he sent a final version of "where you wanna be" without her approval.

• She asked to be released from atlantic.

• Abusive relationship with her backup dancer on tour

• Her eating disorder

• Aaliyah did not want Timbaland to work with Brandy because she didn't want her sound duplicated for other artists, similar to how Brandy felt towards artists like Beyonce

• Diana Ross gave her advice on proper etiquette

• Lost her covergirl deals & sponsorships after ex went on wendy williams revealing they had a fake marriage.

I hope people don't take this as Brandy taking a dig at her competition. If I were an artist that had a distinct sound, I wouldn't want a producer that I created a specific sound with outsourcing my hard work to other people.

There are artists we know that when we hear their music who exactly produced it. Brandy and Darkchild. Toni Braxton and Babyface. Janet Jackson with Jam and Lewis. And even though they would be more considered in the pop category -- Lady Gaga and RedOne.

We've seen this happen time and time again. Rich Harrison did it to Amerie when he started outsourcing his sound to Hennifer Lopez and Beyoncé. And like Darkchild, where is he today?