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After weeks-long delay, the Babyface vs. Teddy Riley battle is finally here. The famed producers are going head-to-head tonight in the latest installment of Verzuz, the Instagram Live battle series launched by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. Babyface and Teddy Riley are known as pioneers of New Jack Swing and have contributed to some of the most iconic R&B, soul, […]

On Saturday night, tens of thousands of people went to Instagram to watch the much-anticipated battle between Babyface and Teddy Riley. Bobby Brown was pumped. Jamie Foxx was hype. And the fans couldn’t wait to see the veteran hitmakers finally square up. Bu unfortunately for viewers, the broadcast was far from smooth. Technical difficulties plagued the stream, causing sound problem […]

Created by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, the Instagram Live Versuz series has provided us with some quality quarantine entertainment, orchestrating battles between T-Pain and Lil Jon, as well as Mannie Fresh and Scott Storch. It has also stirred up debates over who else we would like to see take on one another. Last week, 2 Chainz surveyed the rap landscape and decided to get involved, […]

This weekend, thanks to the ongoing quarantine, another epic battle between two legends is taking place on Instagram Live. RZA and DJ Premier are gearing up to face off for the Verzuz series, which was launched by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland in March. Previous installations include Lil Jon versus T-Pain and The-Dream versus Sean Garrett. […]

Meek Mill hopped into 2 Chainz Instagram comments on Sunday to let Tity Boi know that he’s not prepared to go head-to-head with the rapper on Instagram Live. “I just wanna watchhhh lol” Meek wrote. “Respectfully bowing out to my brother.” In the post, 2 Chainz sized up his potential opponents before challenging Meek Mill […]

Mannie Fresh and Scott Storch are facing off in tonight’s online beat battle. The event, organized by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, was originally billed as a Storch vs. T-Pain contest. But shortly after it was announced, the latter hitmaker had already accepted defeat: “This boy @scottstorchofficial bout to curb stomp me,” T-Pain wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post. “Win or […]

Tory Lanez has never shied away from competition. Now it seems like the Toronto artist is taking this competitive spirit to social media as he’s the latest artist to agree to participate in an Instagram Live battle.  After a brief delay, Lanez and rapper French Montana are squaring off on IG Live where they’ll put their hits up […]

Cassidy‘s venture into the Ultimate Rap League has been anything but illustrious. This came to its head during his latest battle against Arsonal.  Arsonal and Cassidy met Philadelphia to trade their bars. Arsonal is known for his disrespectful approach, but some people figured things would be tamer since they were meeting in Cass’ hometown for the battle. This couldn’t […]

That didn’t take long. Hours after Marvin Bagley III challenged him to a rap battle, Trailblazers’ Damian Lillard responded with a two-minute diss track called “MARVINNNNNN!!!???” And it’s clear the point guard isn’t playing around. “Was about to pass, because you’re still in a Pamper, bruh/And I never seen Floyd spar with amateurs,” he rapped about the Kings […]

Fans were expecting to lose some of their favorite characters going into Game of Thrones‘ Battle of Winterfell. After “The Long Night” aired, however, the body count seemed a little lower than most were expecting. Appearing on Ellen, John Bradley spoke about his character Samwell Tarly’s fate in the episode, and why he was also surprised about the […]