Everybody loves wings. They’re the great culinary equalizer, enjoyed by both common folk and our favorite celebrities. Appreciated by even the most renowned chefs, and flexible enough that even if you’re not a fan of buffalo sauce, there is probably a dry rub out there that you can swear by. Even when compared to equally popular foods such as burgers, burritos, or pizza, there is just something about the chicken wing that speaks to a widespread audience.
Alas, the pandemic hasn’t been great for chicken wings. No longer is it safe for us to congregate in bars, order way too many wings, and yell at the TV about sports. But just because the bars are closed, doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy wings in our households. And with National Chicken Wing Day falling on July 29th, we can scoop up some wings on the cheap tomorrow.
Let’s dive into the deals.
Applebee’s — Finally, a reason to go to Applebee’s! The restaurant chain is offering a BOGO deal on wings for To Go and Delivery orders on July 29th. Checkout using the code WINGDAY to receive the deal, which isn’t valid through third-party delivery services.
BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse — This one isn’t technically a National Wing Day deal, but we’re going to go ahead and count it. Receive a free appetizer when you spend $25 for takeout or delivery by using the code FREEAPP at checkout. What should you order? Boneless wings of course!
Buffalo Wild Wings — B Dubs is offering an order of 6 free wings with the purchase of any size order of boneless or traditional wings. To grab the deal you must order through the phone, old fashion style.
Hurricane Grill & Wings — Hurricane is offering 20 bone-in wings and an order of fries for just $18.99. That’s less than a dollar per wing, plus fries!
Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings — Pasqually’s, which if you aren’t aware, is just rebranded Chuck E. Cheese, is giving away a free order of wings when customers make a purchase of $15. No promo code is needed, and customers may choose between Spicy Korean BBQ, Homestyle BBQ, Spicy Buffalo, Lemon Pepper, Or Chili Lime.
Orders must be placed through GrubHub, Uber Eats, and Door Dash.
The Wing Showdown From Uber Eats and Off The Menu — This is a bit of a weird one as its not tied to any specific wing chain. Beginning July 29th, Off The Menu and Uber Eats will kick off the Wing Showdown, where celebrities including Anthony Anderson, Haylie Duff, Jessie James Decker, Jo Koy, Phil Heath, Shaquille O’Neal, Snoop Dogg, Tyler Cameron, Tyra Banks, and Zach Posen will face-off in a crowd voted competition to see who has the best wing recipe.
Wing fans can then order the exclusive celebrity recipes from local restaurants in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Denver, Toronto, and Vancouver via Uber Eats and cast their vote at The Wing Showdown website. Visit The Wing Showdown to watch the exclusive celebrity recipes.
Wingstop — Receive 5 free wings when you order any wing purchase through the Wingstop website or app when using the checkout code 5FreeWings.
This may be fairly controversial to say, but Nike Japan’s upcoming release of the Nike Adapt BB 2.0 in the Back to the Future II inspired MAG colorway is every bit an improvement on the original. Don’t get me wrong, the original Nike MAG — designed by Tinker Hatfield for Back To The Future II and rocked by my personal style icon Marty McFly — is a work of sneaker art and a fixture in the history of forward-thinking sneaker design. But let’s be real about it, the Nike MAG is a shoe made for the silver screen, not reality, and though Nike has released commercial versions of the design on two occasions, both were for charity and even those pairs the company acknowledges, are produced for display.
Nike Basketball’s Adapt 2.0 in the MAG makeup though? Those are real, designed with performance in mind, less clunky in design, and yes, they self-lace! Dropping exclusively via Nike Japan, the Nike BB Adapt 2.0 MAG borrows the Nike MAG’s distinct wolf grey upper, white accents, and splatter blue midsole, and combines it with Nike Adapt’s app-controlled self-lacing system, textured swoosh detailing, and sheathed upper for a futuristic performance-based sneaker that delivers on the concept that the original Nike MAG could only dream about.
The only thing missing here from the original Nike MAG, aside from the Hatfield-designed hi-top silhouette, is the sneaker’s ability to light up, which the Adapt MAG remedies by adding a series of red, orange, yellow, and green dot details in the forefoot that extend into the sneaker’s blue translucent outsole. This emphasis on practicality and wearability is why we’re digging it over the OG, as cool as that design is.
The Nike Adapt BB 2.0 MAG is set to drop on August 9th exclusively through Nike Japan for a retail price of $400. Get a full look at the shoe from every angle below.
Ever since its launch in the middle of a pandemic, Quibi has been having a rough go of it. However, the bite-size streaming service just scored a much needed break by surprising industry watchers with 10 Emmy nominations. To put those numbers in context, that’s around the same amount of nominations for traditional broadcast channels like Comedy Central and BBC America.
Quibi made a name for itself by cutting huge checks to land big name actors for its unusual programming approach, and that decision has seemingly paid off when it comes to award season. According to Variety, the streaming service dominated the less crowded (and, yes, less prestigious) short-form categories with nominations for its reboot of Reno 911, Anna Kendrick‘s Dummy, Laurence Fishburne’s #FreeRayshawn, Kaitlin Olson‘s Flipped, and Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz’s Most Dangerous Game.
The Emmy nominations arrive after a series of struggles for Quibi. The streaming app recently made headlines after it was reported that over 90% of its early users bailed on the platform once their free trial ended. The fledgling service also received criticism from its employees after it executed a number of cost-saving measures while continuing to give out huge paydays to stars like Reese Witherspoon for voice work. That practice is presumably still ongoing given the announcement of a brand new animated series starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, and you know those two don’t come cheap.
But with Quibi landing Emmy noms for its short-form projects, that could draw even more stars to the platform and boost its content offerings. With a combination of award-winning series and A-list actors continuing to jump aboard, the struggling service still have a chance at greener pastures ahead after a rocky first couple of months.
Last Chance U: Season 5 (Netflix series) — The intense, critically-acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series returns to Netflix with a new setting to explore the junior college football program at Oakland, CA’s Laney College. The Laney Eagles experience a difficult followup to last season while powerhouse head coach John Beam must push his team through numerous stressful setbacks, both on (involving injuries) and off (involving personal demons) the field.
Maxxx: Season 1 (All3Media International series on Hulu) — O-T Fagbenle stars as Maxxx, a former boyband star who’s now a tabloid target in the worst ways. He’s attempting a comeback while struggling with insecurity and the need for validation, along with juggling encounters with drug dealers and trying to get his supermodel ex back. The show, which also stars Christopher Meloni, Jourdan Dunn, Helen Monks, Pippa Bennett-Warner, and Alan Asaad, is currently airing in the U.K. but is dropping the entire first season on Hulu.
Stargirl (CW, 8:00 p.m.) — Courtney’s receiving an unwelcome blast from her past; her life is turned upside down while Pat’s digging up new information about the Injustice Society.
Tell Me A Story (CW, 9:00 p.m.) — Present-day New York City is the setting for the clashing of classic fairytales, mainly revolving this week with a subversive story about love and loss, murder and vengeance.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Author Ibram X. Kendi, Patton Oswalt
The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Michael Che, Angel Olsen
Late Night With Seth Meyers — Cameron Diaz, Jason Aldean
The 2020 Emmy nominations rolled out today, and boy, were they something. Right away, Rhea Seehorn fans grew furious that she was somehow left on the side of the road again, and it’s very strange to not see Larry David receive more nods for being a lovable curmudgeon on HBO, but perhaps he’s topped out with a lifetime total of 27 Emmy nominations and 2 wins. We could also talk about numbers mattering, which is good news on the HBO front, with Watchmen and Succession scoring 26 and 18 nominations, respectively, and Disney+ scooping up 15 nods for The Mandalorian, although sorry, Baby Yoda, you are somehow not eligible for acting awards.
That’s not as satisfying, though, as talking about the real winners and losers, which is a fine tradition here. Please do not consider this to be a complete list of wronged-and-righted parties (for example, I cannot even begin to understand why Desus and Mero got the shaft, which shouldn’t have happened), but let’s get this ball rolling, shall we?
WINNER: Great Netflix shows that no one expected to be great
Netflix
When it comes to Ozark, I kind-of get why people don’t want to give this show a shot at first. The bizarre insistence upon a blue filter goes a long way, for example, or the fact that it arguably fine-tunes the Walt-Jesse dynamic from Breaking Bad — yes, that might grind some gears. Yet all of those concerns don’t matter once you surrender to the setting and watch Jason Bateman lose his sh*t in consistently captivating ways. The acting nominations here were all well deserved, as was the Outstanding Drama series nod, especially with that cliffhanger. I do look forward to one day seeing Julia Garner win her 15th Emmy in, like, 2045, but let’s also shout out Dead To Me. That little Netflix series also been recognized once again despite (probably) being intended as a trash-comfort watch. Yet it works surprisingly well to stir up a wide range of emotions and affirm humanity in the process. Also, recognition for Linda Cardellini will never get old. Now she can forget that Capone came out this year.
LOSER: Reese Witherspoon is doing fine, but not fantastic
HBO
Let’s make one thing clear: Reese is doing just fine. In fact, she’s likely doing wonderful. However, her prestige TV turns have gone unrewarded for this year’s ceremony. Whereas Jennifer Aniston received a nod for Apple TV’s The Morning Show, Reese didn’t walk away with the same honor for her performance as an unruly spitfire of a co-host. Her Hulu and HBO roles, in Little Fires Everywhere and Big Little Lies, also went unrecognized. I can only guess that there simply wasn’t enough room for all the BLL ladies, and although her ruffling of Adam Scott was convincing enough, neither she nor Nicole Kidman could beat out Laura Dern and Meryl Streep’s extremely unhinged turns on the show. Still, Reese will not walk away from 2020 empty-handed. Quibi paid her $6 million to narrate a wildlife series, and you gotta respect that hustle.
WINNER: Nerds
HBO
Yes, I did suggest that numbers don’t matter, but c’mon. Not only did The Mandalorianreceive 15 nods, but Watchmenscored 26. The best part about Damon Lindelof’s show gathering so many decorations, though, is that no one even asked for a Watchmen TV series to be made. Alan Moore’s graphic novel was always considered to be unfilmable (and Zack Snyder made the case there), but Lindelof did it anyway. He recontextualized the whole story against the backdrop of a long-buried U.S. atrocity and hid Doctor Manhattan in the body of a Black man. He put the damn squid in there, included Jeremy Irons’ fart face, made Regina King walk on water (or not), and inserted a Lube Man. Watchmen could win no Emmys at all, and it’d still be the winner for all those things.
LOSER: The Better Call Saul cast, mostly
AMC
This one is a puzzler. The Emmys nominated Bob Odenkirk in 2019, 2017, 2016, and 2015, but he somehow came up short this year for his lead role in AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff that landed on the top of our best shows of the year (so far) list. Even if one considers that his category was stacked — and let’s be honest here, it wasn’t airtight because Steve Carell‘s The Morning Show role felt more like a supporting role than a lead — it’s hard to ignore how the Emmy’s almost entirely shut out the Saul actors. And really, how does one justify continuing to leave Rhea Seehorn on the side of the road with an arc like the one she had this season? With those finger guns… and everything? It just doesn’t make sense, but I guess at least Gus Fring is getting his due.
WINNER: Unconventional Characters That Feel New To TV
Hulu
Zendaya could become the youngest winner of the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award for her turn in the provocative Euphoria. The drug-fueled series about teens isn’t an easy watch by any stretch, but it’s a relevant one, and Zendaya’s finally receiving the dramatic material that her talents deserve. On the Ramy side of things, it’s nice to see more affirmation that this is the best show that you’re not currently watching. It’s a little disheartening to not see the show’s actresses gain recognition while their characters are finally coming to the forefront, but it’s hard to argue with the possibility of creator Ramy Youssef adding an Emmy to his Globe win for this dramedy about Muslim-Americans. Also, Mahershala Ali getting a nod for his Hot Sheikh means that at least something’s right in our current universe (after that Green Book mess).
WINNER: Limited Series That Start With Un-
Netflix
Young women challenging institutions are where it’s at this year. Even though Watchmen will (and should) walk away with the Outstanding Limited Series category, I’m thrilled to see two insurgent-feeling shows, Unbelievable and Unorthodox, make the shortlist. Kaitlyn Dever should have also been nominated in the acting department for her turn as a rape survivor who was treated like a criminal, due to being an “imperfect victim,” but the show as a whole deserved the nod that it received for being taking such a feminist approach to crime-drama storytelling. And I’m pumped to see Unorthodox‘s Shira Hass pop up with an Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series nod (she’s up against Regina King and Cate Blanchett), as well as seeing recognition for the stunning miniseries’ exploration of a young woman’s flight from Hasidic Judaism.
LOSER: Al Pacino, maybe for the first time in his life
Amazon Prime
Pacino’s first regular TV role in Amazon Prime’s Hunters was a highly anticipated one, but sadly, the show (despite plenty of enticing ingredients like Jordan Peele producing and, you know, the killing of Nazis), didn’t hit the mark. Honestly, yeah, it was messy, and Pacino’s accent work managed to be one of the weirdest parts of a very weird show. It’s not worth too many words to rehash what happened there, for it’s enough to say that Pacino’s already won two TV-movie Emmys for You Don’t Know Jack and Angels In America. He’s also notched an Oscar win (in 1993 for Scent of a Woman) and eight Oscar nominations (including in 2020 for The Irishman). He doesn’t necessarily need to win at TV shows, too!
Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.
While we’re at it, make sure you sign up for Indiecast, our new weekly podcast featuring Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen, bringing you all the best new indie music and conversations.
Jessy Lanza — All The Time
We’ve been awaiting Jessy Lanza’s new album since she released “Face” back in April. The single set the stage well for the full-length, a collection of numbers that will surely get you up out of your chair to dance along. With the world on fire around us, All The Time gives us 38 minutes of reprieve to let loose.
Katie Dey — mydata
Katie Dey’s latest LP is experimental as ever, but also follows a narrative thread. mydata explores a long-distance relationship and the ways that communication is both fostered and fettered by the accessibility of the internet. It’s glitchy, but cinematic, making for one of the most interesting listens in recent memory.
Skullcrusher — Skullcrusher
After forcing her way onto our radar with a series of singles, Skullcrusher’s debut self-titled release for Secretly Canadian lives up to the promise. Delivered with restraint, the four tracks expand upon the world that welcomed us into the singles, one that you won’t be eager to retreat from.
Taking Meds — The Meds You Deserve
If you’re looking for something a bit heavier, let me introduce you to Taking Meds. The Brooklyn-based band shares members with defunct post-hardcore group Such Gold, and you can hear it in the heavily down-tuned guitars that comprise the new EP The Meds You Deserve. But where Such Gold’s songs took on a more aggressive vocal approach, Taking Meds put more of an emphasis on big rock hooks and melodies. Case in point: the vocal melody of opening track “Sucks To Be Me” is almost reminiscent of “Kids In America,” at points.
Andy Shauf — “Judy/Jeremy’s Wedding”
Andy Shauf has said that he initially wrote 50 songs for his most recent effort The Neon Skyline, which was released earlier this year and details one crazy night at a local dive bar. That 50 was eventually whittled down to merely 11, but now Shauf has started rolling out some of the cuts that didn’t make the album. “Judy” and “Jeremy’s Wedding” both “emanate Shauf’s soft-rock sound,” writes Carolyn Droke for Uproxx, but he decided that they didn’t flow well with the remainder of the narrative of The Neon Skyline and ultimately decided to exclude them from the album.
The Avalanches — “Wherever You Go”
Since The Avalanches took a 16-year break between their first and second albums, they have been very productive in the way of new music. We’ve already received a handful of songs so far in 2020, including collaborations with Blood Orange, Rivers Cuomo, and more. “Wherever You Go” is another collaboration, this time featuring Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, and Calypso, and showcases the staying power of the Australian duo’s renewed creative power.
Sylvan Esso — “Ferris Wheel”
Sylvan Esso’s first album in three years, Free Love, is set for release in September, and “Ferris Wheel” is a promising first taste of what’s to come. The minimalist electronic number is about “discovering your power and awkwardly figuring out how to wield it,” the band wrote in a statement.
Fenne Lily — “Berlin”
With the release of her new album, Breach, coming up quick, Fenne Lily has shared a second preview with “Berlin.” The single is what Derrick Rossignol calls for Uproxx “a mid-tempo, shoegaze-borrowing track that comes from a withdrawn place,” and certainly sets the stage nicely for what can be expected from the remainder of Breach.
Samia — “Big Wheel”
Samia is prepping her debut album The Baby after spending 2019 workshopping new music with indie artists like Hippo Campus. “Big Wheel” is the latest in a long line of singles, a floating number with mellotron lines that’s “about avoiding conflict at any cost,” Samia wrote in a statement. “It’s a passive confession of harbored resentments buried in a laundry list of gratitude.”
Elvis Perkins — “The Half Life”
“The Half Life” heralds Elvis Perkins’ new album Creation Myths with a country twang and intimate lyrical storytelling. Perhaps this knack for storytelling is informed by Perkins’ work as a film composer, though his solo work takes on an additional dimension by adding an imaginative visual component. It’s a cool exercise, one that Perkins welcomes you to conduct through his music.
Joe Wong — “Day After Day”
Another film composer, Joe Wong’s new track “Day After Day” was inspired by Marianne Faithful and features cinematic instrumentation beneath Wong’s entrancing baritone vocal. Wong’s new album Nite Creatures is set for release in September and features collabroations with the likes of Ex Hex’s Mary Timony, The War On Drugs’ Jon Natchez, The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, and more.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Maurice Ellis, his wife Caroline Leslie-Ellis, and their daughter, Amara, immigrated to Ontario, Canada from Jamaica to create a better life for their family.
Maurice works two jobs to support his family and put his wife through college. Caroline has earned top marks in the hospitality and tourism management program at Fanshawe College, but the expenses are tough for the family to manage.
Even though Maurice has his hands full with work and family, he joined Dad Club London to develop a closer bond with other fathers in his community. Dad Club is a “go-to resource for fathers and pending fathers, where they can network with other like-minded dads, give and receive help, and become more involved in their community.”
In addition to providing a place for fathers to come together for support, the non-profit has also raised over $90,000 for local causes.
“Like many other local fathers, he found us on our Facebook group, came out to an event, and fell in love with what we do,” club member Ryan Blake told Good News Network. Blake is also proud of the group’s diversity. “[Maurice] isn’t the first Black dad in the club. We have members from all races and backgrounds, including gay dads.”
On June 2, the Dad Club London’s Facebook page posted a link to a local London, Ontario Black Lives Matter group that was looking for donations to provide supplies such as “masks, hand sanitizer, water, and signs to attendees.”
The group also wanted to raise funds for “future events and so that we can establish ourselves as an official BLM Chapter that continues to enhance and support the local black community.”
The Dad Club’s support for the Black Lives Member movement meant a lot to Maurice who had been the target of racial slurs while working his second job.
“It’s not just me that it happens to,” Maurice told The London Free Press. “If you’re not mentally strong it can take a toll.”
Dad Club London founder and president, Jeremy McCall wouldn’t accept that type of racism happening in his town, so he organized a secret fundraiser for local community groups to show their support for the immigrant family.
The group raised over $7,000 from 76 families, the local police union, and numerous businesses.
The group called a socially-distanced meeting for group members in a local parking lot in support of the family, but the Ellis family had no idea it was for them.
At the meeting, the group gave Amara the biggest LEGO set they could find, Maurice was given a prepaid Mastercard to help the family with living expenses and to have some money to spend on himself because “you always put your family first.”
Finally, Caroline was given a check to help with her college tuition.
“What happened to you doesn’t represent this community,” McCall said, referencing the racist incidents, in a heartfelt speech to the family.
“We don’t stand for that,” he added. “When you said, ‘I guess that’s the way the world is,’ it broke our hearts because it can’t be that way, and we won’t let it . . . We, together, stand as a community against racism.”
We are two months away from the release of NBA 2K21, which is currently the only simulation NBA video game on the market. The series has had its highs and lows, and like so many games has issues with too heavy a reliance on microtransactions, but it has become the standard for hoops video games and prides itself on realism (even though the medium naturally lends itself to some unrealistic happenings).
As such, if the goal of the game is to replicate NBA life for its gamers, particularly in its MyCareer mode, I would like to formally request 2K begin working on a “The Bubble” game mode that could be DLC for the game early in 2021. A hat tip to Lang Whitaker, who helped spark the idea by asking for the Bubble arena to be added to the game.
The next three months will see NBA players vying for the championship in the Disney bubble, and this lends itself to an even better version of “The Neighborhood” and “The Park” than what 2K currently has. We’ve seen players hit the links for golf together, become very into bass fishing, and do all sorts of other activities together now that they’re all stuck in what has basically become NBA summer camp in Orlando. The idea of 2K’s entire online presence is “what if players all lived in the same place and could play pickup,” but what we’ve learned is there’s opportunity for so much more.
Now that 2K has the PGA Tour golf franchise, they have the ability to put a basic golf game inside NBA 2K so you and your buddies could take your MyPlayers to the links. We already know they can handle the graphics for fishing in the game given that in 2K18 part of your storyline was going fishing with Paul George. You could add other mini-games like cards, cornhole, and other activities to really round out the experience — and, yes, even throw in an outdoor court for “The Park” for pickup games online. The Neighborhood already has disc golf around its perimeter and puts on gigantic events all the time, the folks at 2K can surely find space for all of this in the gigantic 2K world.
There’s some incredible opportunity here for 2K to expand what they offer in the game and, where some of this may have once been unrealistic to imagine guys all doing this, it’s now the reality of a very weird situation. The NBA has tried to make the most of the bubble restart and what they’ve managed has been pretty entertaining to watch, both in the games on the court and what players are doing to entertain themselves off of it. For a video game franchise that has had its struggles in really recreating the NBA lifestyle experience in its career mode, this honestly offers a way to be realistic while doing things easily translatable to a video game, and could make for some very fun online co-op modes.
Also, if there is fear that this won’t be relevant in early 2021, given what we’ve seen with baseball trying to play in home stadiums, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that they might have to consider another bubble for next season if there’s not a vaccine in place by the time the league wants to restart for the 2020-21 campaign. If bubble life is going to be a constant in basketball in the near future, the video game most closely associated with the NBA might as well lean all the way in.
Giancarlo Esposito only briefly appeared in the season finale of The Boys, but it was clear from just those few moments that the actor would have a much greater impact on the gleefully brutal superhero satire when it returned for its second season. (You don’t just cast Gus Fring for a bit part.)
In a new interview with Comicbook.com, The Boys actor Anthony Starr reveals that Esposito’s character Edgar is a higher-up at Vought Industrial, if not the higher-up. As fans of the show know, Vought controls the superhero team Seven (a dark parody of the Justice League), and the corporation is sitting on a trove of mysterious experiments that could potentially keep even its stronger “hero,” Starr’s Homelander, in check. According to Starr, this dynamic will put Homelander in an unusual place after the character just spent the first season basically doing whatever he wanted to whomever he wanted with very little inference. Until now.
“Homelander thinks he’s the most important player in the game, so to speak, but Edgar very much comes from a different angle. He represents a big corporation and he really puts Homelander into a very interesting position for a superhero that is used to getting his own way and being so strong and in control. Edgar really throws the cat amongst the pigeons there and it sets old Homey off on a bizarre trajectory.”
Landing Esposito is obviously a huge get for the Amazon series. The Better Caul Saul actor is coming off an Emmy nomination for his work as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian, and he recently made a huge splash in the world of gaming when Ubisoft revealed he’d be playing the big bad in Far Cry 6. Esposito was featured prominently in the trailer, and he’ll be bringing his signature blend of cool, calculated villainy to a whole new audience when the game hits consoles in February 2021.
The Boys season two starts streaming September 4 on Amazon.
Despite the speculation earlier this week about one possible lineup for the next Verzuz hits battle, it looks like the next contestants were already on board. Today, the Verzuz social channels confirmed that the next two big names to square off are 2 Chainz and Rick Ross. Their duel will commence Thursday, August 6 at 8pm EST/ 5pm PST on both the Verzuz Instagram and on Apple Music.
“Y’all will see very clear how it makes sense,” Verzuz co-creator Swizz Beats commented on the Instagram announcement. It’s pretty easy to figure out; as two of the more well-known figures of Southern hip-hop, 2 Chainz and Rick Ross are fairly evenly matched in regard to their respective catalogs. In addition, the two rappers have distinctive sounds and approaches to very similar topics — namely, the “luxury rap” style both helped shape throughout the 2010s. Both are also in the de facto Renaissance stages of their respective careers after each underwent a name and label change (from Def Jam/Slip-N-Slide for Ross/Teflon Da Don and from Disturbing Tha Peace for 2 Chainz/Tity Boi) and experienced success after revamping their sound.
They’re also vets of the same era who didn’t blow up until relatively late in their careers, when they began dominating radio with hits like “I’m Different,” “Birthday Song,” “Spend It,” and “No Lie” for 2 Chainz and “Hustlin’,” “BMF,” “The Boss,” and “Here I Am” for Ross. They also have deep bags of standout guest verses to dip into, which leaves plenty of surprises for each to pull their 20-song rotations from. As usual, the winner won’t be one of the contestants, but those of us watching, and hip-hop as a whole.
Tune in 8/6 at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST.
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