Brooke Candy and Erika Jayne continue to be at odds over proper credit for their song “Drip,” a track featured on the 2025 Oscar-winning film Anora’s soundtrack.
Candy, 35, and Jayne, 53, collaborated on the 2019 song, which was brought up by Andy Cohen during part 1 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion earlier this week. When Jayne — who called the song’s newfound success “wild” — failed to mention Candy’s name in the conversation, the rapper subsequently struck back in a Tuesday, April 8, TikTok video, calling her “rude” and asking “why could you have not used that moment to give me my flowers? I put you on that song.”
Despite Candy feeling snubbed by the moment, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that Jayne, who is an independent artist herself, “has nothing but respect and appreciation for all artists in the music industry.”
“It is very disappointing to see that [Erika’s] choice of expression around her own work on her own social platforms, as well as her work with the RHOBH, is being ridiculed and made to be something it is not,” the insider said. The source also claimed that “Erika did promote the song on her social platforms, which helped boost royalties that Brooke solely received, and it was very clear that Brooke was involved in the project.”
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Candy was also featured in a 2019 episode of RHOBH when the two women performed together at the VFILES fashion show as part of New York Fashion Week. Jayne’s costars at the time — including Denise Richards, Teddi Mellencamp and Lisa Rinna — were on hand to watch the pair perform.
Still, Candy posted a follow-up TikTok video on Wednesday, April 9, that accused Jayne of using Anora to promote herself — even failing to invite the rapper to a “private screening” of the movie at the AMC The Grove in Los Angeles — and claimed Jayne was taking credit for the song by posting about it on Instagram without “tagging” her. Candy also said that she, not Jayne, wrote the reality star’s parts of the song.
“How could I not have a problem? She didn’t tag me. That’s my song. She’s literally taking credit for my song. It’s insane. Like, you don’t do this as an artist,” said Candy. “That’s why she’s not an artist. She doesn’t get it. But you don’t do this. It’s rude. It’s rude, and it’s delusional, and it’s wrong. You can’t do that.”
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The insider, however, claimed to Us that Candy is the only vocalist who gained from this project financially, as Jayne “did not receive or ask for one cent” from the project.
“Erika paid all her own expenses around her involvement in the project and was not even made aware that the song appeared in the film Anora until its release,” the source alleged to Us. “Again, Brooke benefited financially from the film without ever mentioning the song’s involvement to Erika, who again received zero compensation, nor did she ask for it.”
As for the invite to the screening of Anora, the source explained that who attended the event was out of Jayne’s hands. “[Erika] was invited, she said yes and she showed up like a professional,” the source continued. “Whether or not other talent are invited is at the discretion of the studio, Neon.”
Us has also reached out to Candy’s rep for comment.
