Erykah Badu & Jill Scott’s Verzuz Was A Rite Of Passage Healing Moment For Black Women

School was in session from the Aunties to their nieces and we were listening

An “auntie” in the Black community is a term of endearment to the women who grew and nurtured us outside of our mother’s bosom. It is not a matter of age, but wisdom that is imparted for you to take in and take heed. They are the ones who shoot the glances when you’ve done just a bit too much and at the same time will hit you with a shot of something you’re not even supposed to be ingesting just yet. They give us the building blocks of womanhood — brown, smooth Crown Royal style; straight with no chaser.

And alas, our Saturday night was blessed by two of the queen Neo-Soul aunties. Erykah Badu and Jill Scott joined forces to partake in “Verzuz”, a concept that was created by super producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland that quickly became a social media quarantine family reunion. In its normal format it’s a friendly competition where each artist or producer goes song-for-song and the people decide who had the best line up.

But, in its first woman-to-woman showdown there was no competition to be found — only a mutuality love and respect. It was sisterhood at its finest three hours in which Instagram must’ve taken an age-old lesson in the Black community by not cutting them off…