Verzuz is fun, simple, and wide open - maybe a little too wide open. As it stands, each battle goes 20 rounds, with each contestant playing a hit and hearing a rebuttal. The rules came together on the fly through trial and error. The premise is simple: Two prominent producers (or singers or songwriters) pair up live on Instagram and compete to decide who has the better catalog. Verzuz reimagines the DJ battles of hip-hop’s early days for the “one gotta go” set. Throughout quarantine, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz battle serie s grew from a novel event bridging hip-hop’s past and present into uplifting excitement in our indoor spring and summer, joining DJ sessions by D-Nice, Questlove, and others (as well as Tory Lanez’s unpredictable, short-lived Quarantine Radio series) as the must-see remote-but-live viewing for rap and R&B fans while live shows and festivals were sidelined by COVID-19. The show’s overlords, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, at their rematch.
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