Verzuz Reveals Second Memorial Day Weekend DJ Battle: 112 Vs. Jagged Edge

variety.com:

By A.D. Amorosi The Verzuz series — in which two R&B/hip-hop artists engage in a virtual DJ battle on Instagram Live while thousands of fans watch and weigh in on social media — is one of the few silver linings of the pandemic lockdown.

And while the series, which began with founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, has proved enormously popular — last Saturday’s battle between Ludacris and Nelly netted some 450,000 viewers — the founders had planned on taking Memorial Day weekend off…  but their fellow artists and audience had other ideas. “I was going to take Saturday off,” Swizz tells Variety. “But I’m getting a lot of pushback from the artists and the audience to keep it going, especially since it’s a long holiday weekend and everyone is