“It’s like musical chess.” With tours canceled and festivals postponed indefinitely, the Verzuz battles build community at a time when COVID-19 has forced us to keep our distance from one another. It’s a celebration,” Timbaland told Rolling Stone about Verzuz. Since then, the battles have become a fixture of the growing digital live-music space during the pandemic the series has since included matches featuring Ne-Yo versus Johntá Austin, T-Pain versus Lil Jon, and Teddy Riley versus Babyface.
In late March, producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland had kicked off the musical series with an impromptu competition in which participants went round for round playing songs they’ve produced, while Instagram viewers tuned in. Jilly from Philly) in the first Verzuz battle featuring women. I was one of about 700,000 viewers who spent the Saturday night before Mother’s Day glued to Instagram, watching as Badu, a Dallas native, faced off with Scott (a.k.a. Somehow, I hadn’t noticed several hours fly by either. You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.“I have no conception of time,” Erykah Badu said, after Jill Scott pointed out that they’d been on Instagram Live for two hours on Saturday night, trading songs back and forth. Want to change how you receive these emails? With so much flooding our emails, social media memes have been a saving grace of humor, laughter, and joy-like this meme of sister-mama Erykah Badu’s lyrics for Tyrone (one of Trina's karaoke faves)Ĭopyright © Parenting for Liberation, All rights reserved. Join us virtually on Sunday March 22 from 12-1:30pm PT | 3-4:30pm ET for a space to ground in community and participate in collective care. Parenting for Liberation is holding space to virtually be together with other Black parents to check in on how you be? We’ve made it through a week-how are you holding up? How’s your heart? If you are feeling the same, join us for some uplifting affirmations and positive self talk. “Am I doing enough? Am I doing it right?” Rather than feeling like recommendations, some of it leads to some of us having negative self talk and self critique about our parenting.
On top of information from the government and public health officials, there are many resources being made available via the interwebs to help parents from homeschool activities to color coded daily schedules, and while it’s really great to have so many resources, at times it all just feels overwhelming.
These are scary times right now-with lots of uncertainty and rapidly evolving updates about COVID-19, from school closures, remote working, to social isolation. Parenting for Liberation is holding you, your children, your families, and your communities in our thoughts and prayers.
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