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CeeLo<\/a> knows who he wants to go up against in a VERZUZ battle, and his pick makes sense when you truly consider it.<\/p>\n He recently sat down with Rickey Smiley and was asked who he would go against if he ever participated in the popular music matchup series. \u201cI would probably had to go up against Lauryn Hill<\/a>,\u201d he answered while acknowledging their mutual respect and ability to both sing and rap. \u201cBut she\u2019s like my sister, and we were all together\u00a0at the Kanye<\/a> show, too. So, shouts out to the queen Ms. Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n He added: \u201cBut it would just be nothing but a love affair because we did our first tours together. We\u2019ve been friends for years, and she\u2019s a Gemini twin just like me. So that\u2019s my twin sister \u2014 but she does rap and sing at the same time, you know? I think I would have to be paired up with somebody who has somewhat of the same dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n Prior to his answer about a solo VERZUZ, he suggested that his Dungeon Family collective featuring the likes of Organized Noize<\/a>, OutKast<\/a>, Goodie Mob<\/a>, Future<\/a> and others would likely have to go up against another large collective like the crew out of Staten Island. \u201cWu-Tang came up because they\u2019re a large collective,\u201d he said before admitting that they might have them beat in terms of straight up bars. \u201cBut just straight ahead rap? I think they\u2019re better. And not even to compare, I\u2019m just a fan of theirs, right? But Dungeon Family is just unique in a way where we did it all. I do think that we might be the most critical and commercially acclaimed large collective that hip-hop has given birth to. Ain\u2019t nobody, ain\u2019t nothing like the Dungeon Family.\u201d<\/p>\n You can watch the full conversation below.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CeeLo knows who he wants to go up against in a VERZUZ battle, and his pick makes sense when you truly consider it. He recently sat down with Rickey Smiley and was asked who he would go against if he ever participated in the popular music matchup series. \u201cI would probably had to go up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2454060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29110,482290,354745,374477,364642],"class_list":["post-2454059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billboard","tag-dungeon-family","tag-lauryn-hill","tag-mutual-respect","tag-rickey-smiley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CeeLo-Green-Wants-a-\u2018VERZUZ-Battle-Against-Lauryn-Hill-\u2018Thats.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454061,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454059\/revisions\/2454061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}