You more than likely did not get COVID-19 from attending Lollapalooza.
According to reports, Chicago Public Health Commission Dr. Allison Arwady said her office expected about 200 cases before Lollapalooza began. However it was in fact less than that.
Dr. Allison Arwady said that about sixteen out of a thousand unvaccinated people attending the festival later tested positive for the Coronavirus. Among the vaccinated the numbers were even better, about four out of ten thousand.
She said the numbers were about where they expected them to be. Arwady stressed some of these people could have contracted the virus either before or after attending Lollapalooza.
Anyone attending had to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.
You more than likely did not get COVID-19 from attending Lollapalooza.
According to reports, Chicago Public Health Commission Dr. Allison Arwady said her office expected about 200 cases before Lollapalooza began. However it was in fact less than that.
Dr. Allison Arwady said that about sixteen out of a thousand unvaccinated people attending the festival later tested positive for the Coronavirus. Among the vaccinated the numbers were even better, about four out of ten thousand.
She said the numbers were about where they expected them to be. Arwady stressed some of these people could have contracted the virus either before or after attending Lollapalooza.
Anyone attending had to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test.
Nine Trey Bloods associate Kooda B was freed following Judge Paul Engelmeyer’s decision to release the former Tekashi crony from Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center due to Covid-19, but the judge threw Kooda right back in the slammer for violating social distancing laws right after his release.
Kooda, whose real name is Kintea MacKenzie, was ordered to turn himself in after authorities were tipped to a video that shows MacKenzie partying with friends after his release.
Engelmeyer said that Kooda could’ve been exposed to the coronavirus just as much at the party as he would’ve in the federal holding facility in NYC.
MacKenzie has until Oct. 15th to turn himself in to the U.S. Marshals. He pleaded guilty to shooting at Chief Keef in 2018. His sentencing for the shooting was scheduled for November.
It’s been rumored that Tiffany Haddish and Common were an item for a while, and we’ve gotten some more confirmation that this may indeed be a fact.
The comedian insisted that things were strictly platonic between them, however, an Instagram live session with Cedric the Entertainer had fans thinking otherwise. Tiffany and Common were quarantined together and if you ask the Girls Trip actress, he was just “keeping her company.”
Now the rumored couple appeared on a Bumble Bee ad together, seemingly going public with their relationship.
On their virtual date, Haddish and Common enjoyed dinner and a movie while social distancing. Tiffany even got some flowers delivered to her crib from her new boo.
Aside from entertaining us, they also donated meals from 2 Cents LA and D’s Original Take Out Grill in Los Angeles and Virtue Restaurant in Chicago to frontline workers. Additionally, they donated a combined total of $50,000 in grants via Bumble’s Community Grants Program to food services across the country, on top of the $1 million the dating app already pledged to small businesses.
The kings of quarantine. The sultans of sequester. The icons of isolation. Swizz Beatz and Timbaland are making our social distancing bearable by hosting Instagram live battles between some of the greatest living creatives in the music industry.
On Saturday night, fans watched T-Pain and Lil Jon go track for track playing the songs that put their metaphorical jerseys in the rafters of the hip-hop arena. Lil Jon even debuted a new record featuring Usher and Ludacris, a track that the “Get Low” producer says was on the shelf for the past two years.
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Rapper/producer Timbaland
HOT 97 Summer Jam 2018, East Rutherford, USA – 10 Jun 2018
To see where these battles have gone in such a short period of time, it’s appropriate to give the social distancing crown to the two producers who made this happen.
Of course, there are artists who deserve praise for their efforts of keeping fans entertained under quarantine. Tory Lanez’ “Quarantine Radio” bit on Instagram broke an IG live record amassing 315,000 watchers by hosting twerk competitions and chatting with heavy hitters like French Montana, Chris Brown, and Drake.
Then there’s DJ D-Nice who’s “Club Quarantine” gained national media attention for his dope live mixes that brought masses of celebs and fans to his Instagram page to rock out at home.
The aforementioned are amazing moments in the culture, but those moments have peaked, whereas Swizz and Timb have hardly skimmed the Rolodex in putting these battles together.
Interest in producer battles peaked in 2017 when Swizzy and Just Blaze live-streamed a more than 2 1/2 hour head to head battle playing classics that they produced for legends like Jay-Z, DMX, Jadakiss, Fabolous and more.
The stream on HOT 97’s YouTube channel currently has more than 1.5 million views. This moment in Hip-Hop history prompted Timbaland to jump in his bag and take on the Ruff Ryders beatmaker at Summer Jam in 2018.
The culture thirsted for more competition but nothing ever materialized. Some might argue that creatives were scared to lose the battle and potentially hurt their business in the future. Others might say the bag wouldn’t be big enough to do it in the first place and wasn’t worth the time.
But, I think we all can agree that if there ever was a time for artists to jump in the ring it’s now while millions of people are forced into the 4 corners of their homes clinging to social media as their only means of human connection.
Swizzy and Tim did it on one of the biggest stages in hip-hop, so it’s only right that the two legends became the purveyors of the Instagram live battles that have captured the few moments of happiness that have occurred so far in 2020.
The IG live battle that took off was between Scott Storch and Mannie Fresh, a battle that brought out the biggest hip-hop media outlets, the gatekeepers of hip-hop culture, the artists some of whose records got spun in the competition and of course the fans who’s undivided attention made the live stream flirt with 200,000 views on the live battle.
Scott Storch was declared the winner of the battle, but the results mattered less than just embracing the moment and realizing how many hits these two men are responsible for; its been like that with each battle that’s been conducted from Boi-1da vs Hit-boy to the songwriters battle of The Dream vs Sean Garrett.
A day will come when life goes back to normal. Concert tickets will be sold, clubs will re-open and vacations will be booked. But, we’ll always talk about when Swizz Beats and Timbaland, the kings of quarantine, brought out the legends for war.
Aren’t we all just looking for this kind of chemistry over Video Chat? Thank you to @tiffanyhaddish and @common for letting us in on virtual date night, for helping us donate food to hospitals in need, and for reminding us a slow jam over Video Chat could be exactly what we need.
We have a change of plans for tonight !!! We now have @manniefresh vs @scottstorchofficial 9pm est on live. Let’s the games begin !!!!! @timbaland the paperwork is fully in
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