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Twenty-four-year-old R&B singer Brandy and producer Robert Smith have split after two years. According to reports, they will remain friends and raise their one-year-old daughter, Sy'rai, together. Sy'rai was born last June 16th, five months after Brandy announced that she was pregnant. Two weeks before that, in January 2002, the singer announced that she had secretly married Smith in the summer of 2001.

The couple's split may also extend to the studio. In place of longtime collaborator Rodney Jerkins, a cousin of Smith's, Brandy enlisted Timbaland to work on the follow-up to her 2002 Full Moon.

"I gave her a whole new style," Timbaland says. "She's not the Moesha Brandy that you're all used to. She's talking about people, she's lashing back. She talks about Rodney. She talks about people in her business, her lifestyle, just not knowing the truth about her."

Timbaland says the album will be called B-Rocka and come out by xmas