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Timbaland & Swizz Beatz Reveal All About Deal To Bring Verzuz To Linda Yaccarino At X — Cannes Lions


The uber producers said they were attracted by the prospect of owning their own IP and bringing on other creatives.

Uber-producers and rappers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz have explained why they were persuaded to bring their Verzuz webcast series to the X platform via the distribution partnership revealed yesterday. The pair sat down with X CEO Linda Yaccarino at Cannes Lions Festival Thursday afternoon, a day after Elon Musk addressed the fest, and Beatz kicked off by explaining: “X played a big role in Verzuz – it was the conversation. Yaccarino was speaking a day after X boss Musk, who spoke about free speech and the chance of the world falling victim to the dangers of AI.

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