Social media users are sharing their reactions to a year-old viral clip of Ray J and his niece Sy’Rai Smith. As The Shade Room previously reported, Smith is the 21-year-old daughter of Ray J’s sister, singer Brandy.
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Sy’Rai Smith & Ray J’s Viral Instagram Live Resurfaces
On Thursday, December 14, Ray J took to Instagram to share a resurfaced clip of an Ilivestream held by him and Sy’Rai. Similar footage from 9MagTV shows that the pair’s livestream appears to have occurred in March 2022.
Additionally, the 42-year-old captioned the Instagram video.
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“This never gets old!!! — I LOVE YOU!! @syraismith – MY BEAUTIFUL NIECE!!! —- What yall think about the vocals?????” the singer wrote.
In the video, viewers watched as Smith instructed Instagram users to send a request if they were interested in joining the stream to sing live for Ray J.
“I’ll try to get as many people as I can,” Smith reassured viewers as one Instagram user joined their stream.
Both Smith and Ray J greeted the woman before asking which song of his she would be singing. The user chose the singer’s 2005 hit single, ‘One Wish.’
Watch to see how things went below.
Social Media Reacts
Instagram users entered The Shade Room’s comments Thursday evening to share their reactions to the resurfaced viral clip. Many remarked that the Instagram user’s performance was similar to Ray J’s 2022 Verzuz appearance.
“I needed this laugh so bad! 🤣 She sounded just like him on his versus 🤷🏽♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥”
“Someone come over here and help me off this floor‼️‼️😂😂😂😂😂😂 Not the young woman singing… Ray’s FACIAL EXPRESSION 😂😂😂😂😂”
“Ray J wanted to cry and laugh so bad 😭🤣”
“His face told it.. before his mouth could 😂👏🏾”
“Yall killin me on the Verzuz performance- lol – she did better than me OK!!! You HAPPY NOW!! Lol”
As The Shade Room previously reported, the father of two appeared alongside Pleasure P, Sammie, and Bobby Valentino for a Verzuz in 2022. At the time, the singer’s “One Wish” performance went viral.
At the time, Brandy poked fun at her brother for not taking her advice to savor his vocals ahead of his performance.
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Check out a brief clip of the singer’s Verzuz performance below.
