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Social Media Celebrates The 1-Year-Anniversary Of The Lox & Dipset Verzuz Battle

<p>Now ya&&num;8217&semi;ll know we love a good moment in hip-hop&comma; and a year ago today The Lox faced off against Dipset in a <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;The&plus;lox&plus;&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post">Verzuz battle<&sol;a><&sol;em> that became the talk of social media for weeks&period; With a full year going by&comma; social media is celebrating what they call one of the best Verzuz battles to ever take place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last year&comma; The Lox and Dipset had Madison Square Garden&&num;8217&semi;s Hulu Theater packed wall-to-wall&comma; as fans from all over came out to see two of hip-hop&&num;8217&semi;s most iconic groups put on for New York City&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;reel&sol;Cgzb3HEFmhE&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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- 2px&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;iframe>&NewLine; <&sol;div><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Now ya&&num;8217&semi;ll know&comma; at the end of every battle&comma; people always have their preference on who they think walked away with the winning title&period; However&comma; based on the reactions from a year ago&comma; and even to this day&comma; many fans continue to crown The Lox as the winners of that historic night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1554866777213095937" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1554822476110217216" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1554975211438702593" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1554881137176186880" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After that night&comma; The Lox spoke with <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gq&period;com&sol;story&sol;the-lox-jadakiss-styles-p-sheek-louch-verzuz-interview">GQ Magazine<&sol;a><&sol;em> about the battle&comma; and when asked why did they think their battle was one of the most talked about battles&comma; Styles P said&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I believe it was the energy&comma; where both groups come from&comma; what we represent&comma; and when we came into the game&period; We’re from the same era&comma; but we represent two different things&period; It was a battle for the city and nobody’s been outside for an event&period; Then it’s at Madison Square Garden&comma; for all the chips&period; To say something is for the title of New York&comma; and then have athletes and other artists chime in on it&period; Young people started doing their homework and looking things up&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Sheek Louch also said&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;There were so many components to it&comma; from the lead-up&comma; to Styles and Jim going at it all crazy—which was mad entertaining because you didn’t know if one of them was going to snap&period; Even me and Kiss standing there not saying anything—&&num;8217&semi;What’s on their minds&quest; Where are they at with it&quest;&&num;8217&semi;—and both groups are New York&comma; 100 percent&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another classic moment that was a result due to the battle was Fat Joe&&num;8217&semi;s commentary as he reviewed the battle on his Instagram&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"Fat Joe - Yesterday’s Price&comma; is not today’s price&excl; Ig Live - Fat Joe Show - Instagram - LIVE - JADA" width&equals;"768" height&equals;"432" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;7T5UYIv4l7s&quest;feature&equals;oembed" frameborder&equals;"0" allow&equals;"accelerometer&semi; autoplay&semi; 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