![]() Round five also saw LaBelle playfully calling Jennifer Hudson a “heifer” - “That heifer sung me under a table,” a term she’s used in the past for younger singers - and saying she’s still learning from generations such as Hudson’s. ![]() Along with the twosome harmonizing over LaBelle’s biggest churchy ballad, Knight found her own brand of sexy grandeur with that 007 track. LaBelle’s “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” and Knight’s nearly-forgotten James Bond theme “License to Kill” was round five. Knight replied, “You’re just here to wake people up - it’s a gift from God.”įor round four matched LaBelle’s grand ballad “When You’ve Been Blessed (Feels Like Heaven)” and Knight and the Pips’ deeply grooving “On and On.” LaBelle seemed surprised by the track, but quickly caught up, while Knight’s performance was all guts and grit - “As long as He keeps giving us the breath, the love, the spirit, and the talent,” said Knight after the track. The pair then spoke about how they were there for each other after members of their families passed away, and then dug in for Round Three, which paired LaBelle’s “Stir It Up” with Knight and the Pips’ peaceful “Every Beat of My Heart.” The two sang together in lovely harmony, with Patti’s highs and Gladys’ lows inspiring Kerry Washington to post, “They got me singing in my kitchen making dinner.”Īfterward, LaBelle said, “Sometimes, I think that I over-sing.” When they got to the second round – LaBelle’s “If You Asked Me To” and Knight and her Pips’ “Make Yours a Happy Home” – Patti went for the powerhouse belt for her ballad, while Gladys went for the subdued simmer. ![]() However, the night also saw the return of the technical difficulties that plagued the early Verzuz, so much that Verzuz co-founder Swizz Beatz commented on the glitchy sound. “I only made four videos in my life, and that was one of them, said LaBelle of her ‘90s-era track, while Knight went for something more stately, raw and soulful with “Best Thing.” Throughout the evening, Knight went for the funkier songs, where her big voice is at its nuanced peak, while Labelle initially went for songs requiring a higher range and more sleek, electronic-age material before bringing out her Philly International smashes. The pair got so into their talk that one viewer chimed in via Instagram Live comments: “I think you forgot we were watching.”īy the time they got to the first tracks - LaBelle’s “All Right Now” and Knight and the Pips’ “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” - they were chair-dancing and kicking up their feet while singing their hearts out. Certainly, LaBelle did more shoe changes than vocalizing, although both were amazing to behold. In fact, this Verzuz may have been the series’ chattiest to date, with the two doing more talking than singing. 13 session matched up longtime friends and multi-generational soul legends Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight, live from the stage of The Fillmore in LaBelle’s hometown of Philadelphia, reliving old times, singing their hits and talking good sense, while Michelle Obama, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Kerry Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Missy Elliot, Jill Scott, Octavia Spencer, Questlove, Lena Waithe, Alicia Keys, Whoopi Goldberg and last week’s #Verzuz co-star Brandy chimed in, along with nearly 600,000 Instagram livestream viewers (no word yet as to how many people tuned in on Apple Music). For two and a half hours on Sunday night, the latest Verzuz episode - the DJ battle where two hip-hop or R&B legends compare their catalogs in (usually) friendly competition - was more like a cross between a mutual-admiration society, a church service and a good talking-to from your mother.
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