Verzuz Presents: The Isley Brothers vs Earth, Wind & Fire | Sunday 8PM ET

[Lord Scion]

I’ve been on an Isleys binge since this Verzuz.

Like people understate how fukking impressive it is to adapt and change your sound over six decades worth of music.

Do people not understand how befuddling it is that the same group that made songs like Shout, Twist and Shout and This Old Heart of Mine also made Voyage to Atlantis, Between the Sheets, Floating on Your Love, Contagious and Choosey Lover.

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[Sankofa Alwayz]

Out of all the Verzuz I’ve been able to see (I’ve missed on quite a lot of them unfortunately), here’s my Top 3 of the ones I’ve seen so far (in order):

1) The Isley Brothers vs. EWF
2) Jill Scott vs. Erykah Badu
3) RZA vs. DJ Premier

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I’ve been on an Isleys binge since this Verzuz.

Like people understate how fukking impressive it is to adapt and change your sound over six decades worth of music.

Do people not understand how befuddling it is that the same group that made songs like Shout, Twist and Shout and This Old Heart of Mine also made Voyage to Atlantis, Between the Sheets, Floating on Your Love, Contagious and Choosey Lover.

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Same breh

 

[newworldafro]

I need just an instrumental album of the Isley Brothers..

 

[newworldafro]

Kells and Isley Brothers made a whole sub genre

"Blast Off" is underrated track . If I'm doing space tourism I'm playing this.....







Didn't think Isley did that bad, but Willie D made a good point

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Probably because he was not part of that group. That was Ernie and Marvin Isley and Chris Jaspers spin off group.

Phillip played one of his solo joints. What's the difference?

 

[MVike28]

You know you legends when you been given lifetime achievement awards for decades

RIP Gerald Levert his tribute to EWF with that performance, brother was a swaggerful performer

Tweet can't hit a note to save her life

 

[MVike28]

Brian Mcknight singing after the love is gone is just beautiful

 

[IllmaticDelta]

yup.
And just about everyone here I've mentioned in the past or tried to champion their
work on here.
Especially Adrian Younge.
I had a chance to meet him, he's cool, humble, very intelligent even told me I could
swing by the studio and kick it with em.
One of these days preferably when the pandemic has died down, I'll swing by and take him
up on that offer.

he's a beast....his black exploitation sounding stuff is....look at Younge's instruments played credits

 

[Insensitive]

he's a beast....his black exploitation sounding stuff is....look at Younge's instruments played credits

I watched him live and I had people in the crowd looking back at me when I said, "He's a multi-instrumentalist!"
Then bro hopped off of the guitar and got on the drum kit.

 

[NormanConnors]

yup.
And just about everyone here I've mentioned in the past or tried to champion their
work on here.
Especially Adrian Younge.
I had a chance to meet him, he's cool, humble, very intelligent even told me I could
swing by the studio and kick it with em.
One of these days preferably when the pandemic has died down, I'll swing by and take him
up on that offer.

Take me with you breh

 

[NormanConnors]

Up until 'That Lady' dropped Ernie had been playing guitar for ONLY 4.5 years .

Jimi missed seeing a student that was watching him beast out by only a couple of years

 

[MVike28]

Up until 'That Lady' dropped Ernie had been playing guitar for ONLY 4.5 years .

Jimi missed seeing a student that was watching him beast out by only a couple of years

My God these brothers are so talented.

 

[Flawdaboi]

Earth, Wind and Fire, Isley Brothers Climb Charts After Easter Verzuz Special

Classic soul acts Earth, Wind and Fire and the Isley Brothers are the latest beneficiaries of Verzuz’s prolific post-show bump, with both groups climbing the Rolling Stone Charts following their Easter Sunday special last week.

The Isley Brothers made their debut on the Artists 500 Chart at Number 323, seeing 8.9 million on-demand audio streams during the week of April 2nd through April 8th. In the three days following the show, their streams jumped 106 percent, while their album sales grew 420 percent and 632 percent respectively. Earth, Wind and Fire rose a staggering 120 spots on the artists chart, to Number 257. Earth, Wind and Fire’s streams grew by 37 percent in the three days after the Verzuz faceoff, while their album sales and song sales grew 167 percent and 277 percent. ( Earth, Wind and Fire have about three times as many monthly listeners on Spotify as the Isley Brothers, giving the latter group more room to grow their numbers.)

Verzuz has proven to be a potent booster for participating artists’ catalogs. On average, artists’ streaming numbers jumped nearly 90 percent following a Verzuz show, Rolling Stone reported in September, with individual artists like Brandy and Monica getting 240 percent and 260 percent bumps, respectively. For comparison, the average artist coming on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — TV’s highest rated late-night show — saw an average of 5 percent boosts.

Verzuz started as a darling of the quarantine when creators Swizz Beatz and Timbaland took to Instagram live to do an informal song battle while stuck at home. It has since turned into a fast-growing media brand and has recently expanded beyond music programming with a partnership with the NFL for the Pro Bowl in January. Verzuz left a deal with Apple Music as TikTok rival Triller purchased the brand in March for an undisclosed sum. Timbaland and Swizz gave part of their equity from the deal to all the participating artists who’d come on the show.

“Me and Timbaland took it to another level,” Swizz Beatz previously told Rolling Stone of the song battle concept Verzuz has turned into its business. “But when me and Timbaland connected, we didn’t just battle each other — we also had a concept, a UFC frame of mind with creatives.”

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

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