It was the rematch the world was waiting for and oh did it deliver!
Last night, Babyface and Teddy Riley took center stage in a much-hyped Verzuz battle of of bops – day after their initial showdown was marred by technical difficulties.
With the setups simplified, the legendary hitmakers sparred with songs and stories that reminded the masses of their colossal catalogues.
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Hits from Michael Jackson, TLC, Janet, Karyn White, Bobby Brown, and Boyz II Men had onlookers – which included Mariah Carey and Michelle Obama grooving.
So plentiful were the number of folk watching, a live record was broken when the battle hit 500,000:
The vast amount tuning in saw Instagram pushed to its max technologically:
As those tuning in saw, the tech issues did cause for a premature end, but it couldn’t dampen what was an epic night!
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Brazilian artists been hosting lives with over 2 million viewers on YouTube. I’m sure it was a great watch but this ain’t breaking the internet
THIS WAS INSTRAGRAM NOT YOUTUBE!
LOL ya’ll always hating on black excellence.
i agree @2bad2bme
It broke Instagram for mobile viewers..pretty sure if they move this to YouTube they’ll have even more viewers
Babyface and Teddy’s Versuz was streamed on multiple platforms, including Facebook and YouTube. If you combine all of those, their viewership would be in the millions as well.
Of course REAL music with REAL productions and longevity will do that. Unlike the gimmicks these days that go viral for the moment then a few years later won’t get air play because the songs are out of style… CAMILLA CA-WACKO!
didn’t you just say they hating on black excellence and here you go hating on black artist that are trying to be excellent. hypocrisy
What black artist did I mention?
Pharrell and Yung Thug basically cause Havana
There’s SO MUCH I wanna SAY right now! I’m Kanyesha on that VMA STAGE right now! ? Black music RUNS IT…PERIODTT. Don’t even TRY to talk to me about nothing else! I’ll give you one…you can talk to me about Frank Sinatra! Now HE had flavor, he was COOL, he was an original ? But other THAN THAT…RIGHT NOW?You better GET BACK unless you’re talking to me about BLACK! ? Don’t try convincing me of ISH ? I saw BLACK EXCELLENCE watching this! God BLESS these TWO KINGS of MUSIC ?? ?? ? Beyonce!!!! Greatest video chile!!! That’s how I’m feeling right now, k bye lol
This is the first one I watched and it’s not what I expected. I thought there would be more back & forth, not songs playing for a whole 3 minutes. Teddy tried to bring some life to it in the original battle. He should’ve been allowed to try it again Monday, and if it didn’t work, all he would’ve needed was to have a back up plan ready without live sound.
If this was your first then go back to look at others, the reason they gave Teddy and Baby Face linger to play their songs is simply because they are older and legends. It was hard enough teaching them how to do the live. Teddys set up the first go round is what messed it up he was having too many technical issues
Thanks for the tip. I’m watching Ne-Yo vs. Johnta now and it has more of that battle feel I was looking for.